Sexual violence on college campuses is a very common public health issue for women and men with one in five women being assaulted and one in nine women being experiencing rape. Sadly most of the incidents go unreported in fear of victim-blaming or facing the perpetrator. Studies have shown that students are at the highest … Read more
In class today, we talked about how sexual violence against men in war and it made me want to do more digging sexual violence against men in general. Here are some statistics as of Jan 2021. Approximately 16% of males in juvenile prison have been sexually abused In Florida alone, a staggering total of 1,477,000 … Read more
Most girls our age played with Barbie dolls when we were little. We remember the ideal Barbie doll with blonde hair, blue eyes, perfect hour glass figure, the ideal picture of American beauty in the 1960’s. The Barbie doll creator, Ruth Handler, based Barbie’s body on a German doll called Lilli, a prostitute gag gift … Read more
According to the article, What is the Male Gaze, the male gazed is described as ” a way of portraying and looking at women that empowers men while sexualizing and diminishing women”. It also states that “while we are driven to look at and evaluate each other as potential mates, the male gaze twists this natural urge, … Read more