Every time that I check my email and see that I received something from the university police, I always know what to expect. I look down at my phone and I already know what the headline is going to sound like, and as expected, I see the keywords.
The headline goes on to say something along the lines of forceful touching or sexual assault/rape incident. I cannot comprehend the type of ignorance or stupidity that has to go through someone's head to even think about doing something of that nature.
What makes someone get to a point in their lives where they are so low and so desperate in which they have to act like stone-age neanderthals. I have begun to look around me and realize that we are growing up in a society and culture in which sexual assaults and rapes are being desensitized and even in some cases going on with the repercussions of minimal punishment.
We have already see the power of white-privilege in the Stanford rape case but at this point we are beyond that. We are beyond race. We are at the point where it should be the parents who should take responsibility for their creature’s actions.
What kind of household do you have to grow up in or what type of parenting do you have to be raised under for you to think that it is okay to just go around and do whatever you want to women not worrying or caring about the effects that you are going to have on the person?
We need to start to educate our younger generations the same way that my parents taught me. I was taught how to treat women with respect, how to be chivalrous, and how to have a good set of manners. Unfortunately I have met a great deal of people that lack not one but all of the attributes that I just listed.
This is where having an education comes into play. People with lack of knowledge tend not know what is it they are doing wrong. Add on top to that the criminal justice system being lax on the punishments given out, we have a perfect storm brewing right under our noses.
There is a huge problem and the rebuilding needs to happen when people are young and at an institutional level. We also need to educate parents better so that they know what to tell their kids and how to do so because proper education needs to happen at both school and at home.
A change in the music that we are listening to also needs to happen. We need less rappers and other artist speaking about women as objects and we need more artist like Tupac Shakur that make songs like “Keep Your Head Up”.
As Mr. Shakur states it, “And since we all came from a woman/Got our name from a woman and our game from a woman/I wonder why we take from our women/Why we rape our women, do we hate our women?/I think it's time to kill for our women/Time to heal our women, be real to our women.”
The right way to treat a women is the way that best gives respect, not the way to to get in their pants. This is a big distinction and one that needs to be made very clear in all across the board.
