“You Fight Like a Girl” “Its not your fault.” “You shouldn’t have worn that short skirt out in public.” “He touched me too.” “You asked for it.” “You’re a fag.” “Me too” All of these are things that we hear on social media, on the news, and in person every single day. Both men and women are being sexualized, traumatized, and victimized every day and most of the time, they don’t come forward. Whether you are gay, straight, black, or […]
The central issue presented by the #MeToo movement is sexual harassment. Feminist scholars argue that sexual harassment causes danger to women in general. Sexual harassment undermines women’s workplace authority, reinforces sexual stereotypes about appropriate gender behavior, and reduces them to sexual objects. We’re at a historic tipping point for women. In October 2017, the hashtag #MeToo spread across the globe. What began as a Hollywood sexual assault scandal sparked a public reckoning around the world. Thousands of women are using […]
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Get help with your assignmentIn October of 2017, the hashtag #MeToo spread across the world, beginning a historic tipping point for women. A Hollywood sex assault scandal sparked a global social movement, using social media to pave the way. Just two short words are being used across social networking platforms by thousands of women to share their stories of surviving sexual assault and harassment. Over one year later, and the movement to stop sexual assault and to support the victims of it is only […]
According to Jean Kilbourne in “Advertising is our Environment”, “The important question is not ‘Does this Ad sell the product?’ but rather ‘What else does this Ad sell?” (Kilbourne 101). With advertisement becoming the landscape of life and culture the ever-seeing effects have become more intense and measurable. All advertisements try to sell a product but don’t just sell this product they also sell different ideas about society and culture. In this Loreal advertisement, it depicts a woman getting her […]
The women’s movement was a socially diverse movement, that sought out equal rights, opportunities, and greater personal freedom for women. There are three waves of feminism that focus on women’s roles in society. The first wave of the late 19th century and early 20th centuries aimed attention on women’s legal rights for equal opportunities, education, employment, and owning property. The 19th amendment was the monumental parliamentary triumph of the first wave. The second wave of feminism of the 1960s-1980s shifted […]
SurveyMonkey CEO Zander Lurie announced today that they will be teaming up with major corporate companies to address silent victims of workplace sexual harassment. Every employee will be given the opportunity to honestly survey how safe they feel in their companies without the fear of losing their job. Starting November 1, 2018 organizations will be provided with surveys to their employees online. The survey will be no more than 10 minutes long which will include 15 questions with the opportunity […]
He works as an editorial cartoonist for Buffalo news, as well as a freelancer on the side. During Zyglis’ high school career, he began illustrating editorial cartoons for his school’s newspaper. Once he graduated high school he began work at the Griffin. Griffin is a subscribable newspaper for Canisius College Honers, which is where he attended. Consequently, at the simple age of 22, he became part of the cartoonist staff at Buffalo Newspaper. Zyglis has a big heart for issues […]
High school has a lot to do with being pressured to do things. With teenage girls they get pressured the most, with drinking, drugs, sex, etc. The #Metoo Movement and women’s suffrage are pretty important by letting people know that they aren’t alone or the only ones. Women have suffered a lot through the decades. Woman suffrage actually began in 1848. For the next 50 years, woman suffrage supporters worked to educate the public about the validity of woman suffrage. […]
Women are historically treated worse than their male counterparts and this is especially true before the progressive era. It was frowned upon for women to work and those women who did have jobs, were treated as second class citizens. Not only did women make less than men, but the little wages they did make they were not allowed to keep. Pay was given to the respective men in their lives and for most women that fell to their husbands. The […]
Treat Every Woman like You Would Treat Your Mother and We Will be Fine Since the beginning of the #MeToo movement, policies have been devised to keep men out of possible trouble. Men are learning the importance of respecting every woman and valuing them as human beings. I, have written about the importance of fathers training their sons to show women and girls with respect in light of the stories testimonies alleging assault that have been exposed. I too have […]
There has been a big increase in sexual assault reports in the military from 2016 to 2017 according to Lisa Ferdinando (dod.defense.gov, Annual Report). In 2016 there were over 6,000 reports of sexual assault whereas in 2017 there are just over 6,700 reports, that’s close to a 10% difference. One thing is for sure, something needs to change, and it starts at the individual level. We are seeing an increase in sexual assault in the army because of alcohol abuse, […]
