SOSC 1350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Sexual Assault, Victim Blaming, Heterosexism
5 Jan 2017
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Challenging subject: messy difference between law in books and practical life, prevalence of rape myths some of us holds these believes, close to home: 1 in 3 or 4 canadian women sexually assaulted in their lifetime. 80-85% of victims of sexual assault are female. Talked about the importance of masculinity in social terms instead of biological. Biological terms cannot change; social constructs can change; we are talking about something social. Sexual violence is the way we organized our society. Our attempts to stop sexual violence is very uneffective. 840/460,000 sexual assault convictions per year, average: which means that if you commit a sexual assault get away with it; if you are victim, the attacker and you getting your justice is slim. People in the legal system are not interested, people enforcing the law convictions ignores the rape facts. 97% perpetrators are males law"s picture of sexual assault is that sexual assault occurs between strangers.
