Yah Women Studies!!!

Last week was an interesting week. Groups 1 & 2 met at the house and we had some fun and entertaining stories. We were to have read part 5. The article that stuck out the most to me was Rape as Social Murder. This was a sad but true story. In this article she talked about her personal experience with rape. While she got raped she talked about how the rapist told her why he was doing it and after he offered her a ride to the hospital and said she didn't have to move that he would keep her safe and tell her what type of window locks she should have. "He blamed me for the beating, and then acted as my protector and caretaker" Scary! The author had mentioned that "not challenging the rapist was a mechanism of self-defence". I believe this because if you don't fight back then the rapist gets what he wants and then will leave. The reason the author called this "social murder" is because the rapist has mad her believe that it was her fault, that she did something to deserve it and just being violated makes you feel dead.
Another story that was interesting was Trends in Delinquent Girls' Aggression and Violent Behavior: A Review of the Evidence. This story talked about the pattern in girls delinquency. They talk the increase in arrest for violent chimes girls carrying weapons, robbery, theft and assault. They think its because "the aggression and violence has historically been ignored". The also think that sexual and physical abuse could also be a reason of of this. Over all the article had a lot of stats and that girls' behavior hasn't changed it's just been ignored.
The last article, Making Feminist Sense of an American Military Scandal was about the American women and men that were prison guards were humiliating and torturing Iraqi men in prison. They were making the men pile naked and took pictures of the women smiling. This was really disturbing to me because it was the women that were torturing the men and treating them like a joke.
I also remember someone talking about the 6 year old boy in the balloon and I CANNOT believe he wasn't really in the balloon. INSTEAD he was hiding in the attic of the house. THOSE PARENTS ARE NUTS... now they have to leave their child for 6 years all because they wanted a TV series out of it. PEOPLE THESE DAYS! Welps see ya in class Thurs.!