Gender Equality:
The Same for All
Rape culture is something that has existed for many years now and even do governments have been trying to find ways to end this it is almost impossible mainly because of the institutions as universities and some schools that do nothing to stop this and let their students that commit these crimes keep studying in their institutions without no “punishment” or some really minor punishments.
So what is rape culture? According to WAVAW rape culture is a term coined by feminist in the U.S around the 1970s which was designated to show the ways society blames victims of sexual assault and normalizes male sexual violence. Rape culture right now can be defined with this exact words but also applying it to men, since nowadays even though women are still raped more than men these are raped and they are treated the same way as these women. Even do they are victims, they are not supported by the people that should like governments and institutions and are told it’s their fault that the assault happened. You also need to know the meaning of sexual assault which according to the Department of Justice of the United States means any type of sexual contact or behaviour without the explicit consent of the recipient.
When parents send their children to college they send them to the place they think has the safest environment and that can help them grow the most (obviously according to what they can afford) but what they don’t know is that actually no college is really safe since according to RAINN (Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network) 11.2% of all students experience rape or sexual assault through violence and physical force. This numbers affect not only undergraduate but also graduate students since 8.8% of graduate females and 2.2% of graduate males experience rape or sexual assault. Undergraduate students by other hand of suffer this and the numbers go way higher since 23.1% of females and 5.4% of males experience rape or sexual assault while their studying their careers. Last but not least 4.2% of students experience stalking since entering college. This proves that rape culture is ha problem in every generation and is really showing that the younger generations are not being taught or educated the since is the job from the older generations to teach this kids the right thing to do and stop repeating the bad part of history over and over again.
What is even more surprising than all this numbers is that the institutions involved with these which are basically all of them don’t do anything against this problem just because they do not want the image of the institution ruined by a public case of rape on their campus. The washington post gives us some data in one of their articles, they start by saying in 2014 about 100 universities in the U.S. had at least 10 rape reports on their main campus with Brown University and University of Connecticut tied for most with 43 each. In 2015 about 90% of college campuses reported 0 sexual assaults and rapes which doesn't seem right since according to the National Sexual Violence Resource Center (NSVRC) 1 in 5 women and 1 in 16 men will experience rape or sexual violence in college. The system in this institutions is so crooked that the survivors of this assaults are scared of reporting since they think they are no positive answer to their situation; only 20% of this survivors report this crimes and are treated by the schools system as if it was their fault instead of treating them as the victims they really are. These numbers are amazing since you would think that these universities wouldn’t be lying about what is happening but instead solving the problem.
The real with reporting any type of sexual assault or rape is that most of the times there is not enough evidence to proof that the rapist is guilty since in the moment of the attack the only where the victim and the attacker and a DNA test might not do it because it could mean consensual sex. This is why 88% of women sexually assaulted on campus do not report, only 26% of rapes reported to the police lead to an arrest, and only 3% of rapist will even see a courtroom. “The Hunting Ground” a Netflix documentary that talks about sexual assaults on college campuses and it gives a first person view of the cases by interviewing the victims. It talks about the case of Jameis Winston the quarterback of Florida State University which raped three different women in 2015 while in college, after 2 years of delaying the case he was “found” not guilty and then drafted first overall pick in the NFL draft and he is still free from jail and playing professional football.