Kesha Sebert v. Lukasz Gottwald is an ongoing case in which “Dr. Luke” sued both Kesha and her mother for the breaching of Kesha’s contract. This is due to Kesha’s lawsuit filed against Dr. Luke in October of 2014. Kesha claims that Dr. Luke was “guilty of sexual assault and battery, sexual harassment, gender violence, civil harassment, violation of California’s unfair business laws, intentional infliction of emotional distress, and negligent retention and supervision.” (Merriman, Rebecca. "Kesha 's dramatic legal battle with alleged rapist Dr Luke".) It is obvious that Kesha should be released from this ludicrous ideal, and be freed from the contact that ties her to her rapist. Kesha claims that Dr. Luke has been making sexual advances on …show more content…
Luke’s list of deeds: causing a young girl to starve herself to the point of rehabilitation. It’s not uncommon for celebrities to pressured into losing a few pounds for the sake of the media by their agents and producers. Anorexia is increasing in the United States every year. Due to the number of cases that go unreported, statistics vary, however the Federal Office on Women’s Health, approximately 5 million or more girls have an eating disorder of some kind. The emphasis on having a fantasic body in the entertainment industry is obvious to any discerning eye, however, this does not make it okay. Body image issues are quite common and extremely harmful, and thus should not be answered with a cry of “just lose more weight if you want to make yourself and others happy!” Kesha was more than unhappy with herself after being bullied into losing weight to fit the media’s standard of attractive, and it’s all thanks to Dr. …show more content…
Rather than teaching people to be decent human beings, we have instead created a stigma against victims in order to dance around solving the actual issue. All it would take to stop rape culture and victim blaming would be realizing that rape is a choice. One may choose to rape a person or not, and therefore the choice lies in their hands. Whether the victim was not in their right mind or not does not matter, but rather if the rapist chose to be a rapist or not. They can always chose to not have sex with someone against their will, but the victim cannot. How is it fair that someone has horrible things forced upon them, but then it is their fault rather than the person who actively decided to rape another human being? Is it the victim’s fault in a murder case, by that logic, because they should have defended themselves better? Should we not punish the murderer and rather the victim? No, of course not. So why punish victims of rape because “they could have defended themselves a little more or taken more precautions”? Why not teach people not to
One of the most horrible things that has erupted from the subjugation of women is rape culture. Rape culture is the downplaying of the crime of rape to appease the violator, the accusation that the victim made a choice that led to their rape, or even jokes that suggest rape. According to Jessica Valenti’s, “In Rape Tragedies, the Shame Is Ours,” in today's world many people give in to rape culture by participating in these acts that somehow change our mindsets into believing that, “it is more shameful to be raped than to be a rapist”. Once ...
These pressures from the media ads can lead to eating disorders. For many women and girls the “ideal image portrayed becomes an obsession and results in an eating disorder like anorexia or bulimia” (Karyn p.1). With the constant nagging to be thin, the dancers feel that if they are to be in music videos on television, they have to measure up to this false image of a woman.
Legal systems and the world, for example will blame the rape victim (innocent) and in turn them into the problem.
Procedural History: The plaintiff Michael Costanza is suing Jerry Seinfeld, Larry David, NBC, and the production company as well as seeking relief for violation of New York’s Civil Rights Laws.
The media can impact people’s lives in many ways, whether it’s fashion, movies, literature, or hobbies. One of the impacts is how women view their bodies. Movie stars and models feel pressured to catch attention and to look good in order to have a good career in their respective field. People tend to judge how someone looks based on their body composition. The result of this “judgment” is that Hollywood is getting skinny. Since models and actresses serve as role models for people, people tend to want to look like them. The result of this seemingly harmless model of behavior is in an increase in eating disorders.
Rape serves no purpose in society because it adds nothing to social roles and keeps no type of harmony. There is no type of stability to be found in Rape. The sole purpose and effects of consensual partnership is to create the next generation and people finding life partners. Without that consent, what is there to be gained?. Luckily, the average person would agree with this. Any decent person can understand that rape is a bad thing and should be punished. But why do people still avoid talking about it? Or not take people who report it seriously? Why are male victims of rape barely ever talked about? I want to try to answer those questions with the other two of the big three
It is not a topic that is brought up often, especially at schools or at gatherings, yet it is crucial that everyone be educated, or at least informed on a topic that affects women every day. “Given that sexual violence continues to occur at high rates in the United States, it is vital that we understand attitudes and cultural norms that serve to minimize or foster tolerance of sexual violence” (Aosved, 481). Growing rates of sexual violence goes to prove that it is not taken seriously by many, especially when myths excuse the actions of the perpetrator and instead guilt victims into thinking they are responsible for the horrible act. Burt (1980), in her article titled, “Cultural myths and support for rape” attempts to make sense of the importance of stereotypes and myths, defined as prejudicial, stereotypes, or false beliefs about rape, rape victims and rapists- in creating a climate hostile to rape victims (Burt, 217). Examples of rape myths are such sayings as “only bad girls get raped”; “women ask for it”; “women cry rape” (Burt, 217). This only goes to prove that rape myths against women always blame and make it seem like it is the women’s fault she was raped and that she deserved it for “acting” a certain way. McMahon (2007), in her article titled, “Understanding community-specific rape myths” explains how Lonsway and Fitzgerald (1994) later described rape myths as “attitudes and beliefs that are generally
Rape is an inexcusable crime and should not be justified by skewed logic, sadly “almost a third of the men (31.7 percent) said that in a consequence-free situation, they’d force a woman to have sexual intercourse, while 13.6 percent said they would rape a woman” (Singal). Intercourse needs to be consensual, not forced upon by one because they think that there are no consequences for them to face. Some try to excuse the act of sexual harassment they have caused by stating “what she was wearing or about her sexual history, a suggestion that she attracted the assault by wearing clothes that were revealing, or that she made herself available by having sex with other people” (Kohli). Does it really matter what the victim was wearing, or what they have done in the past, do these victims truly deserve
Rape and sexual violence is a very serious problem that affects millions of people each year. Rape is someone taking advantage of another person sexually. Sexual assault can be verbal, physical, visual, or anything that forces a person to join in unwanted sexual contact or attention. ("Sexual Assault.") Rape is one of the most underreported crimes. In 2002, only thirty-nine percent of rapes and sexual assaults were reported to law officials. ("Sexual Violence: Fact Sheet.") Victims sometimes do not report that they have raped because of shame or feeling that it was their fault. It is never the victim's fault. "Victim blaming" is holding the victim of a crime to be in a whole or in partly responsible for what had happened to them. Most victims believe this. ("Myths and Facts about Sexual Violence.")
A tall, glamorous runway model is every girl’s dream. Long beautiful legs, lean body, and beautiful shiny hair is what an average young woman views as an ideal image for a female. If you don’t resemble the images of those stunning Victoria Secret models and Fashion Week models, you suddenly become ashamed of your own body. It is a great life to have with the high pay, fame, drinking champagne on a yacht with famous celebrities and even being on the Vogue cover page. Fashion Modeling Industry has been the most influential source in our young women’s lives. Young girls and young women are seen eating as little as they can, even starving themselves at times to resemble those models. What they don’t realize is that they are contributing to the 2.7 percentage of 13- 18 year olds suffering from anorexia and bulimia. Susan Albers, a psychologist at the Cleveland Clinic said exposure to thin models is a great trigger in maintaining an eating disorder. When watching America’s Next Top Model or flipping through a Fashion magazine, these young women don’t apprehend that those models are either naturally slim or they are suffering from an eating disorder themselves, in other words, hostages in the dark hell hid behind those runway curtains. The growing number of young anorexia and bulimia patients, and the number of websites such as thinspiration, where girls put up pictures of their thin bodies clearly suggest that the fashion modeling industry do not at all bear any responsibility in providing healthy, realistic physical role models for young women.
The last reason which may be the biggest reason is victim shaming. Rape culture is an environment in which rape is frequent and which sexual violence is normalized due to media and other pop culture. This type of culture is maintained through inappropriate language, the obsession over women’s bodies, and the fact that sexual violence is glamorized. This has created a society that disregards women’s rights and safety. In an article published by Southern Connecticut State University, the author who is unknown gives these examples of rape culture: “blaming the victim (“She asked for it!”); trivializing sexual assault (“Boys will be boys!”); sexually explicit jokes; tolerance of sexual harassment; inflating false rape report statistics; publicly scrutinizing a victim’s dress, mental state, motives, and history; gratuitous gendered violence in movies and television; defining “manhood” as dominant and sexually aggressive; defining “womanhood” as
Rape is illegal by law and it is unjustifiable – people know that, but is it only men to blame? Rape is generally presented as something that only (or almost always) happens to women. Why? There are also stories about women who has reported innocent men because the girl by “accident” cheated on her boyfriend and when things got tight needed a scapegoat, and by that abused her advantage of being a girl in this post-feministic world. Why is it that the women’s word is so much more worth than the men’s is?
One quote that supports this is, “Victim-blaming attitudes marginalize the victim/survivor and make it harder to come forward and report the abuse….Victim-blaming attitudes also reinforce what the abuser has been saying all along; that it is the victim’s fault this is happening”(Southern Connecticut State University 1). By accusing victims, the perpetrators avoid punishment because society tells victims to fix the problem by themselves, even though it was not the victims offence in the beginning. A way to fix this, is to punish violators and to cease blaming the
A writer from Southernct stated a fact that “ men, women, and children of all ages, races, religions, and economic classes have been victims of sexual assault. Sexual assault occurs in rural areas, small towns, and larger cities” ( “Southernct” 1). We have all seen on the news a case where a female has been raped and somehow the world makes us believe that it was her own fault that it happened. This is due to victim blaming. Victim blaming occurs when the victim of some sort of crime or wrongdoing is held partially or fully responsible for what happened to them. It is not always easy to identify though. Some people would be considered to be victim blaming over every day situations in life. For example, someone making the
Assigning blame has become an increasingly difficult and complex concept to understand, especially in our legal court system. I associate blame with being held responsible for the consequences of one’s intentional actions. In regards to sexual assault cases, I think the blame should not be placed on the victims, but rather on the perpetrators. Victim blaming justifies the perpetrator’s actions, discourages sexual assault reportings, and can have psychological effects on the victim.