When Rape Goes Viral By Ann Friedm Article Analysis

The first is the stigmatisation of sexual assault victims,. In the documentary we see how Audrie Pott was sexually assaulted, and how pictures of the crime were were circulated on social media. She committed suicide after being harassed, and even blamed for her own assault. Victim-blaming is shockingly common in modern society and its impacts are exacerbated by the capabilities of social media. Within our piece we explore this through a video of Sierra being raped being circulated online, receiving over 100,000 views on Facebook. Comments on the video also depict a culture of character assassination by viewers, ‘look at this slut, she’s probably got an STD’. One audience member reflected on the portrayal of social media within our piece, ‘it was amusing at times and also realistic, especially the victim-blaming comments.’ Overall, we were happy with how the social media scene reflected the realities of stigmatisation, however we also reflected on how to

In the riveting documentary Audrie & Daisy, husband and wife director team Bonnie Cohen and Jon Shenk retrace the events leading up to the harrowing sexual assaults of three teenage girls; Audrie Pott, Daisy Coleman, and Paige Parkhurst, and expose the agonizing after effects and exploitation of the assaults. Subsequent interviews with family members, friends and law enforcement officials give important details about the aftermath of the events, and introduce viewers to possibly the biggest villain of all, Sherriff Darren White of Maryville, Missouri. Throughout the documentary White appears smug when he states that “as County Sheriff, “the buck stops here” (Darren White), and when asked about the crimes committed by Maryville’s football star, he rebuts with “was there a crime?” (Darren White). As the film moves through the twists and turns of the cases, the settings, conflicts, and tragedies are enhanced by the use of montage, long and subjective shots, close-ups and personal sketches that submerge the audience into the victim’s point of view. At the conclusion of the film, the viewer is left to decide what constitutes sexual assault and rape, and if society and law enforcement are to blame for today’s ‘rape culture’ acceptance and the continued victimization of young girls. It also reveals how much can be hidden from parents, and how disconnected they can become from their children in a social media world.

There are different notions that the society has towards both Brock Turner and the victim, but whether good or bad, this case has sparked many new perspectives and conversations about situations such as this. The article proposes that this is only the first step to developing a culture that does not tolerate sexual violence in any form and a judicial system that deals appropriately with cases that involve sexual assault.

In recent history, there have been many cases of rape all over the world that have been sparking public outrage, not only because of the perverse acts but also for the way that society has responded to these attacks. The Steubenville, Ohio case is one account, where a sixteen year old girl was raped by two high school football players. Instead of focusing on the tragedy of the rape, the public and the media chose to speak about the two rapists - the boys - and how their promising football careers were over. It was suggested that the girl was at fault for being drunk, and that she was known for lying in the past, and could possibly be lying about the case (Poladian, 1). This is only one example of

In the riveting documentary Audrie & Daisy, husband and wife director team Bonnie Cohen and Jon Shenk retrace the events leading up to the harrowing sexual assaults of three teenaged girls; Audrie Pott, Daisy Coleman, and Paige Parkhurst, and expose the agonizing after effects and exploitation of the assaults. Subsequent interviews with family members, friends and law enforcement officials give important details about the aftermath of the events, and introduce viewers to possibly the biggest villain of all, Sherriff Darren White of Maryville, Missouri. Throughout the documentary White appears smug while he states that “as County Sheriff, “the buck stops here” (Darren White), and when asked about the crimes committed by Maryville’s football star, he rebuts with “was there a crime?” (Darren White) As the film moves through the twists and turns of the cases, the settings, conflicts, and tragedies are enhanced by the use of montage, long and subjective shots, close-ups and personal sketches that submerge the audience into the victim’s point of view. At the conclusion of the film, the viewer is left to decide what constitutes sexual assault and rape, and if society and law enforcement are to blame for the today’s ‘rape culture’ acceptance and the continued victimization of young girls. It also reveals how much can be hidden from parents, and how disconnected parents become from their children in a social media world.

In the riveting documentary Audrie & Daisy, husband and wife director team Bonnie Cohen and Jon Shenk retrace the events leading up to the harrowing sexual assaults of three teenage girls; Audrie Pott, Daisy Coleman, and Paige Parkhurst, and expose the agonizing after effects and exploitation of the assaults. Subsequent interviews with family members, friends and law enforcement officials give important details about the aftermath of the events, and introduce viewers to possibly the biggest villain of all, Sherriff Darren White of Maryville, Missouri. Throughout the documentary White appears smug when he states that “as County Sheriff, “the buck stops here.”(White) and when asked about the crimes committed by Maryville’s football star, he rebuts with “was there a crime?” (White). Montages, long and subjective shots, close-ups, and personal sketches highlight the conflicts and tragedies that the girls face, submerging the audience into the victim’s point of view. At the conclusion of the film, the viewer is left to decide what constitutes sexual assault and rape, and if society and law enforcement are to blame for today’s ‘rape culture’ acceptance and the continued victimization of young girls. It also reveals how much can be hidden from parents, and how disconnected they can be from their children in a social media world.

In the article The Sad Truth About Marital Rape, by Jennifer Gerson Uffalussy written in July of 2015, the main issue relates to the hardships that Lindo Jong in “The Joy Luck Club” suffers through when she was living in China. Lindo Jong finds herself trapped in a loveless marriage dominated by her mother-in-law, in which she must endure to avoid bringing disgrace to her family. So instead of bringing shame to herself, she uses her cunning wits to escape the marriage. One of the particular hardships that Lindo Jong finds herself in, is the everyday fear of being raped by the man she has no love for. In the Non- Fiction article, it explains how Ivana Trump, the ex-wife of Donald Trump had this fear of Lindo’s come to life. Ivana Trump’s claim

America stands by traditional notions where rape culture is the norm and revolves around society. In particular, when a woman is raped, their actions prior to the incident are usually accounted for their fate of being sexually assaulted. Lately in America, there has been a controversy over women being victim blamed by legal authority in rape cases. These women are slut shammed for allegedly “asking for it” by being intoxicated and having the intention to “have fun”. Because of these accusations of allegedly seeking to engage sexually, rape victims are blamed for initiating the sexual act. An ongoing controversial rape case is the Stanford rape trial of Brock Turner, where the victim was sexually assaulted while unconscious near a dumpster. Turner was convicted for sexual assault, however was only incarcerated for three months. This has recently caused uproar due to justice and retribution not being equally served. The incident occurred near a university campus party; where alcohol was involved and memory loss was present. In addition, she was rushed to the hospital as a rape victim and was examined. Despite complying to use a rape kit and be evaluated, the victim’s accountability is undermined by the leniency of treatment in rape charges. When examining linguistic features of both parties’ written statements, several factors can be analyzed such as each participant’s stance and the credibility of their accounts. In addition, when dissecting a victim’s written account,

Rape culture in modern times has it’s many similarities and differences to the rape culture in the novel. Nowadays rape culture exists through social media. Sexual abuse has become a recurring problem on social media, even though it’s not accepted in our society. The sexual abuse still occurs. There aren’t many deterrents to sexual abuse on social media and by the time something’s been done about it the damage has already been done.

Sexual assault has been a pandemic spreading like a wild fire in our nation. It is a ramped act that is plaguing our communities. Our society tends to view the perspective of the victim, however in the recent study Justifying Sexual Assault: Anonymous Perpetrators Speak Out Online gives another outlook. A team of researchers sought out to find the reasoning of why these sexual assaulters did what they did. By all means, the researchers do no attempt to defend these assaulters but merely try to understand their motives for their actions. The way they went about their research was doing a content analysis on, “stories about a controversial Reddit.com thread, which asked users to share their motivations for perpetrating sexual assault and whether

Along with television shows, news stations are accused of trivializing rape aswell. How many times have you heard, “She asked for it.” or any other type of victim blaming, or a derivative of,“Boys will be boys.” to make rape seem like not such a big deal (1a)? News channels will even go as far as scrutinizing a victim’s dress, mental state, motives and history to make the victim seem in the wrong about their rape (1a). Some channels will inflate the fake rape statistics to make rape seem like a less

While we expected more women than men to respond “very familiar” to this question, the results are not an accurate representation of the general population of male Penn State students since only 14% of our survey subjects were male. Most people identified themselves as a 4 or a 5, meaning that they are overall somewhat to very familiar with the rise in allegations. While we cannot test their actual knowledge on the rise in allegations, we expected to see that most people agree that there is a rise in allegations. This prediction held true as 88.7% of participants agreed that there is a rise in sexual assault allegations (Figure 1), which is the sum of participants from Figure 2 who placed themselves between a 3 and 5 for familiarity with the rise in sexual assault allegations. Thus, these responses strengthen the validity of the participants who responded in Figure 1 that there has been a rise in allegations, since those participants are familiar with some of the cases in sexual assault

Rape is a crime that’s alarmingly on the rise whilst rape culture follows. A radical feminist clearly expresses in her blog that the core issue is a lack of awareness of what rape really is and continues to suggest statistics from male-supremacist groups are entirely false. Next, she urges all rapists to immediately register themselves as a sex offender and ends stating any male can be a rapist regardless of their morals or personality. This radical feminist abhors males yet fails to acknowledge her anger must be aimed towards rapists, as both genders are capable of rape. Onward, an article written by a liberal feminist outlines her concern for rape victims. She continues to tell readers about the growing dangers of rape in a digital generation

Sexual offence encompasses a wide range of crimes. This makes it tough to identify underlying causes and suggesting measures to prevent. Differing psychological, anthropological and sociological perspectives in the cases of Robert Pickton and Russell Williams show the complexity of the issue. No two sex offenders are alike. According to Schwartz (1995), “sex offenders comprise an extremely heterogeneous population that cannot be characterized by single motivational or etiological factors” (SAPAC) Staying these factors is beyond the scope of this essay. Here we will focus on the two cases referred above and figure out the way they choose their victims and how we can use that information to suggest preventive measures.The essay will also examine the role of media in sexual offences and how media can be helpful in the prevention of such offences.

Social Media and local news coverage of high profile famous cases of sexual assault can give a misleading perceptions of the actual cause of the problem. Some of these articles talk about the stereotype with ‘stranger danger’ sexual assault and how it is actually not true.Most people who experience sexual assault are assaulted by someone who they actually