Sexual assault has become a pressing and concerning issue on college campuses across the United States. In recent years, the rise in reports and discussions surrounding incidents of sexual violence has brought this critical problem to the forefront of national attention. The prevalence of sexual...
Rape culture, the growing issue of normalizing victim blaming, accepting sexually explicit jokes, teaching women how to prevent rape, and much more. Rape culture is a very serious issue and needs to be put to an end. Rape culture can be defined as an environment...
Rape Culture: An Introduction What is rape culture? There is no other way to begin discussing this major issue that has been plaguing our world. We must first look at the definition of rape culture. A rape culture is one in which the victims of...
From the age of 11, I was told that if boys pulled my hair or poked me with pencils, it meant that they liked me. I didn’t like it that much. By 13, I had the first man look me up and down in the...
If one were asked to give examples various weapons, typically a list involving types of guns, knives, nuclear powers, and bombs would be recited; however, it is more than likely that one of the most populous weapons would be absent from one’s thoughts. The issue...
Apocryphally labeled a novel confined to the voracious appetite of mental illness, The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath truly explores the societal ills in the role of young women in the 1950s. Despite the inevitable and universal recognition of internal strife, The Bell Jar’s main...
The current issue I chose was based on an article called “Sex Signals Turns Campus Laughter on Rape Culture.” The article shines light on rape in a different aspect. A program called ‘Sex Signals’ demonstrates a sketch about being a bystander of rape situations in...
