I want society to recognize that women in high schools and everywhere are subject to sexual abuse in one form or another, sexual harassment certainly counts.
Girls and women should not have to face sexual prejudice because of this.
Women are handicapped by being the objects of male sexual desire.
Men can walk alone through the state park on a nice day without feeling afraid or guilty.
You are asking for it of course, being stupid, by walking alone if you are a women.
This sounds extreme but see, if something happens to you at a park when walking alone if at least two people don't ask you why you were alone.
Also there is a feeling of doing something wrong, I find, that comes with feeling afraid when walking alone.
example, "I'm being so stupid," like it is your fault you feel afraid walkng alone
I don't see sexual harassment addressed anywhere, instead I see it encouraged on TV.
Simply put, men are rarely sexually abused and women often are.
Young girls do not expect abusive male sexual attention to be as common as it is.
How could they, we do not address the reality clearly in our society.
If anything society promotes the dehumanization and sexual abuse of women.
Most men are not abusive towards women and are great people.
A percentage though is not great and very dangerous.
I think at work, that I make less money then almost all the men there.
I think this is because my boss perceives me as sweet, polite and a little shy and therefore able to be used.
By paying women in somewhat traditional female jobs, shop girl and waitress for example, so much less then a living wage women are left even more open to sexual abuse. .
I'm a huge advocate for raising the minimum wage, not by 25cents either, to a living wage, perhaps a whole 9 dollars an hour for strenuous, stand on your feet all day jobs.
women are, therefore, dependent on family, spouse, boyfriend and sometimes other women.
basically they are kept in traditional sexist roles by being unable to afford to get out of them.
Also women are then forced to live in "affordable" housing, and therefore even more subject to abuse.
As women often come with children, they are also affected.
In my bad neighborhood, there were lots of nice women with kids, often single parents.
Women also, because of this, can end up being sexually exploited in places like strip clubs, which are not a fun party, instead they are dark dirty miserable places where women are dance naked to afford to be able to live in bad neighborhoods with their kids.
Women living in "affordable" neighborhoods will eventually most likely be sexually assaulted in one form or another.
People are very warped in their thinking in relation to poverty and women.
For example everyone tells me just to move out, in relation to my family.
How can I, when simply the amount of money I make does not add up to the amount of money I need to live!!
This is not a matter of laziness, or a psychological issue, I have learned defeatism.
Certainly defeatism can be learned but it is because you make 7 dollars and hour and the money simply does not add up. that defeatism is learned.
Defeatism is learned in places like The Village, that teach you no matter how hard you try, you will still be abused horribly without compassion or sense.
I’m sure slaves and sweatshop workers have a bit of a defeatist attitude, but no one says to them, Stop exploiting yourself.
The teens in the Village can’t leave. You don’t think they think about leaving all the time?
I can’t quit my job and go live in a hut in the woods?
I have to finish college so I can be independent one day, therefore I am trapped in a low paying part time job, where they try to work me as many hours as they can for as little pay as possible.
Defeatism is also learned, by the attitudes of the people around you.
Nothing is more demoralizing then to work till you are sick and yet have people tell you you are lazy and good for nothing because you are still poor or dependent on others.
The attitude that it is the fault of the person working so hard for so little, is so ingrained in society and you hear it so much that you tend to become defeatist,
no one understands even when you show them how the numbers and opportunities simply don’t add up.
People seem to believe the slogans themselves, they are so well ingrained in American society as to be all around them.
I am at least going to finish college. There are a bunch of ways out of the poverty of working as a shop girl or waitress or something similar, I know how about as a receptionist!!!
But it is true that there are opportunities, at the same time though it is not easy and the facts are as they are, no matter what people have fooled themselves into believing.
