Book Week 2

I read 4 more chapters of the book "To the Survivor."  These four chapters were very intense to read about but was very needed to understand the effects of sexual violence and how sexual violence is over looked. A couple of the chapters were about the stories of survivors speaking at a rally to end rape culture and sexual violence. After reading the story, I was disgusted by the law and the humans who commit these crimes. The law let these people, who survived a traumatic experience, go through these traumatic experiences all over again. The law are very lenient on these people who were sexually harassed. Unlike getting physically abuse, unwanted sexual touching does not leave a mark. This leaves no proof which makes it hard for the law to believe the survivor. I see this as being a huge problem of our society victim blames. As society we cannot blame the surroundings for the problem but we have to blame the person, who experienced the pain, for getting into the situation. These perpetrators are the problem of our society, they need a punishment not a slap on the wrist like $250 fine, they need go to prison or at least jail. But our society just does not make the law hard enough to really hurt these people and give them the idea that these type things are ok.

Another chapter in the book was called victim blaming and I think explained victim blaming really well. He explained the effects of it and how it is detrimental to our society especially for people who have experience sexual violence. This idea of blaming the victims for their own problems, is so illogical but we still do it. In the media their was a case of a girl getting raped at a party. Instead of blaming the rapist, the media blamed the girl for being drunk and letting herself get raped. We cannot promote this way of thinking through the media. People who have been sexually assaulted will not be able to feel comfortable in society if we keep this type of mindset.