Nowadays people blame society for any problem a state, country, or any large group of people comes across. Blaming society is a lot easier than admitting and accepting that you, or we as a whole, are in the wrong. We are the society, we have created the society we live in, and we are at complete fault for how society is today.
We live in a world today where women are slut-shamed for wearing short skirts and crop tops. If you wear something that isn't jeans and a turtleneck and were raped, you were asking for it, and if you were drunk, or not even drunk but drinking, you were really asking for it. Then there are people that know this is wrong, and women should be able to wear things that make them comfortable without offering themselves up to disgusting men to take advantage of them, and we blame society for saying those awful things and making up those awful rules.
When the little boy fell in the gorilla exhibit and the gorilla died so the little boy could survive, we bashed everyone, especially the boy's parents. Hurtful and mean jokes were made about the boy's parents and the gorilla, like "if the gorilla were white it would've probably just been tranquilized and not killed." We blamed the parents for not watching their child, and we compared this gorilla situation to different situations around the world. There was an accident, and a little boy's life was saved. We blew the situation out of proportion and ignored other important things happening, such as someone running over the large amount of memorial crosses in remembrance of those fallen for our freedom.
When Target decided they were going to let transgenders use the bathroom they felt most comfortable in we became enraged and blamed society for the awful world we live in. We worried about our little girls, and the men that would now just wander into the ladies bathroom and rape and harm young girls and all women for that matter. We blamed the transgendered people for this, when it isn't about them at all. It isn't the transgendered people that we're worried about hurting young girls and women. Its the same men we've been worried about for so long, the same men girls are taught at a young age to stay away from and watch out for. Target's plan was to offer acceptance to transgendered people. The men women have always had to watch out for will be there no matter what Target had decided to do.
On a less serious note––the hook-up culture. Dating has almost gone extinct in young adults today, and hook-ups are on a high rise. Nobody wants to date anymore, because why be with one person when you can be with many with no attachment or commitment at all? The select few women and some men that do want a relationship blame society for this. Frankly I don't know when things started to be this way, but it isn't going away for a while. Tinder isn't helping the situation, but people are joining Tinder and trying to locate a nice guy in a 50 mile radius as a last hope.
We blame society for all of these things, but we make up society and we set the standards for how things are. When a girl was drunk, wearing a short skirt and a crop top and got raped, many people probably said "She was probably asking for it. Why wear that outfit and get drunk if you didn't want to have sex?" and this is why society now thinks this way. Someone, somewhere put this idea into people's heads, the idea spread, and somehow, ignorant people believed it. When the boy fell in the gorilla exhibit, we were angry, jokes were made, anger was flung at the parents, but nobody looked at the situation as a whole. A little boy was in there with a gorilla. There was a chance that the gorilla may have not killed the boy, but a choice had to be made, and the choice to play it safe rather than sorry was the better option. We stressed over the gorilla death instead of mourning while also mourning the 50 people that died in Orlando that weekend that we completely ignored. When Target decided transgendered people could use the bathroom they felt most comfortable in, we blamed the transgendered people and forgot it is the men that rape and hurt women and young girls that are messed up in the head. The hook-up culture we have created was started because someone decided that hook-ups were cool, and dating wasn't. Being faithful to someone isn't cool anymore and undressing them and having sex with someone without even knowing their middle name is much more important than getting to know someone. We will probably continue to blame society for the problems we face, but we are society, we have created this society. We are the problem in this f*cked-up society.
