Is male sexuality brutal by default?
The topic of sexual harassment which is widely brought up in the media these days, has shown that there are still a lot of people who consider men to be brutal by their nature. The author of the article suggests that this kind of mindset is very harmful to men and implies that humans aren't be able to change. "The abstinence-only education", as they called it there, teaches girls to prevent men from being physically attracted to them because "boys just can't help themselves". It basically means that women are blamed for what rapists do to them. What's more it also creates a wrong image of men as if all of them were responsible for harassing women.
This article interested me because of a few things. Firstly I think there's a lot of misunderstanding about sexual assaults and how important is the role of male nature in these cases. Secondly I agreed with the author that they are not feminists who believe in this image of a man but they are very often conservative people who (maybe without realising that) are creating a picture of a man-monster. I believe that we shouldn't belittle the issue of the mispotrayal of a man and the role of a woman in a sexual harassment.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/nov/28/male-sexual-assault-nature
And what is the role of the woman in sexual harassment?
OdpowiedzUsuńBy claiming that women are to blame for being abused because they provoke men by wearing short skirts, bare arms, etc., we admit that men are instinct-driven animals that just cannot control themselves. I think men should object to such a portrayal of their nature in the first place.
I think it's not the nature of men we should blame but the way they perceive their own position and rights in the society and the role of women. And this is the product of culture, tradition and upbringing. Remember men laughing stupidly when Trump bragged about what he did to women instead of objecting? It's this culture that needs to change. Locker-room talk is not as innocent as some men want it to be.