Sunday, December 4, 2011

Chapter 3 "Whos fault is it,and where is the help"

School is the most over look place for gender sexually harassment. Gender harassment refers to comments and behavior's that are not explicit sexual in nature but none the less convey disrespect toward women. Some young men clearly don't know limits and how to draw the line between play and sexually harassment. One of the studies in chapter 3 asks some questions to young girls in school. "Have boys every called you out your name to make you feel bad?",51% out of 35 answered yes.Another important question was asked to further my point "Have boys ever grabbed or touched you and made you feel uncomfortable?",49% out of 35 answer yes,and when asked these two questions among others 89% answer yes two all. Now sometime boys always consorted these actions as fun and games. Like have you ever called girls out their name to make them feel bad,grabbed them in a wrong way,or made sexual comments toward them 70% over half called girls bad names and a staggering 80% grabbed them in a wrong way. Now I gave this info to make my question clear who's fault is it that these females are touch seeing that the percentile of these things are high and the females aren't fighting it off so who is the blame the school or the victims. And if it is the schools then where is the help? who are responsible for keeping these things in check which is happening on the school grounds or is nothing done because they have the same mind set as the young men and look at the situation as they are "just playing". My opinion is that these things are so often over looked in school that it is believed to be ok and then leads to further assaults out of school like rape and gang rape by friends of that male. This also creates a feeling for the males that the can do this to every female they meat because it is done everyday. In a interview Alica was asked "how often would you say that girls get touched inappropriately?" she responded "everyday". So in a not muter mind it seams this applies to every girl unless the girl stands up and say other wise  but since they are so use to it and don't think its that serious all the time they don't say anything so who is really to blame if only a select few care about it. And how do you help the ones who do? Not many authority figures look at this problem as big its minute to the one not getting it done to them so it is over looked.    ace40

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