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Rape: No More Victim Blaming - Research Paper

Rape: No More Victim Blaming

Haley Dixon
Mrs.Duven
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Rape is caused by rapists, misogyny, structural violence and institutional tolerance. Rape is not caused by a women’s clothes, the way s/he walks, the way s/he crosses her legs, being in the “wrong” place at the “wrong” time, drinking, or not being careful enough. Over and over it happens. You shouldn’t have been drunk/drinking. You shouldn’t have been there. You shouldn’t have gone into his/her apartment/room. You shouldn’t have dressed that way. Many people argue that it is the rape victims fault but it is no one but the rapists fault. How can it be the victims fault, did s/he have some sort of power over the rapist that forced him/her to do all of the ...

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abused? I met with a girl who is now 15 who was sexually abused as a young girl. She told me her story, and my question for all of you is how could a 6 year old girl be asking to be sexually abused. She was so young and didn’t even know what was happening to her was wrong, it went on for a couple of years until her cousin was reading a poem about how she was sexually abused. The young girl began to break down into tears because she had just realized that was what had been happening to her and that it was wrong. About a two month investigation the man pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 8 years.
On September 28Th 2011 an 81 year old woman was laying in her bed at home when a man broke in beat her and then proceeded to rape her. There was no way that this man did this because of the way she was dressed or because of the way she walked considering she was in bed at home. No one could say to her that its her fault she was at the wrong place at the wrong time because it was her home, ...

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Added: 1/29/2012 09:57:51 AM
Submitted By: aeriebabi67
Category: Social Issues
Type: Premium Paper
Words: 685
Pages: 3

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