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In this I will research what is victim blaming, how does it affect us, and how to solve it. With this research i hope to create a ted talk that will educate, raise awareness, and help solve victim blaming. While also seeing how stereotypes and the legal system play a part in victim blaming.

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1. Women must be submissive to men

2. Men should excersise coercive control

3. Men have the right to discipline women

4. Women cannot deny their male partners sex

5. Sexual harassment is normal

6. Women get hurt because of how they dress

7. All women should be mothers

8. Girls are “valued” as wives not individuals

9. stright is the only sexual orientation that is okay

10. Divorced women have less “value”

things like this are harmful becuase instead of supporting people they make women feel worthless

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Men are tough, have no emotions, aggressive, and can’t be vulnerable

Mens “value/reputation” is determined be the loyalty and obedience of “his women” (like wife, sister, daughter)

Men are weak/gay if they agree with feminists

Men can’t have pure intentions

Women who protect their rights “hate men” or are “unladylike”

Womens purpose is to satisfy/pleasure men

Nudity is more acceptable for men than women

Men are the breadwinners and women are stay at home moms

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Its hard to get your abuser in jail/punished for their rapes/asult if you have no concrete proof. The best way to “catch” them is by using a rape kit. This will collect dna and will help identify them if you dont know who it is or if you do know this will be proof. But in general when people go to report not much happens unless you have proof like recordings, messages, dna rape kit test, or a confession from the abuser.

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A lot of time men are always asu,ed to be the only ones who rape but women also do.

A lot of the time men say that when they report rape that they get told that they must be joking or that they probably enjoyed it. It is unfortunate and unreasonable that any person no matter gender is told that they liked/enjoyed getting assaulted.

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1. How does societal culture and upbringing influence attitudes towards victim blaming?

2. What role do gender norms and stereotypes play in perpetuating victim blaming behaviors?

3. How do media representations contribute to the normalization of victim blaming?

4. What are the consequences of victim blaming on the mental health and well-being of survivors?

5. What strategies or interventions are effective in reducing victim blaming attitudes and behaviors?

6. How does the legal system handle cases of victim blaming, and what reforms are needed to address systemic issues?

7. What are the intersections between victim blaming and other forms of oppression, such as racism, sexism, and homophobia?

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1 in 5 women get raped in their life

1 in 14 men get raped in their life

Women are almost 3 times more likely to get raped

Its unfair that men get raped but their is  little to no representation for them.

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This is hurtful for many reasons

1. It assumes that the offenders are boys

2. It lets boys get away with things instead of being held accountable

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Just 2 in 100 rapes recorded by police between Oct' 2022 and Sep' 2023 resulted in someone being charged that same year

Sometimes the court seeings take 2 years of waiting p

According to rape crisis . Org
“But most survivors don't report it to the police

5 in 6 women who are raped don’t report – and the same is true for 4 in 5 men.

Lots of these survivors tell someone else what happened. So, why don't they tell the police?

40% said ‘embarrassment’
38% said they didn’t think the police could help
34% said they thought it would be humiliating”

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One big way to support and change the victim blaming mentality is to believe the victim.

Alot of people get told that they are lying for attention of revenge and that is rape was “real” it would be reported in the news. But the reason we don’t see it on tv often is becuase most people don’t report it since they think people won’t believe them or judge them.

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Instead of immediately asking what was she wearing or why was she drinking. We should instead ask why the abuse happend like the motives behind it. Becuase most of the time its not about the sex its about wanting power

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1. Hook: why does society confused the words scold and support. Instead of supporting victims of rape we instead blame them and scold them.Infact as a result of us blaming them only 1 in 5 victims reported it to the police claiming that it would be too embarrassing or that no one would believe them. Now i know some of you might not know what victim blaming is. The definition of victim blaming is the action of telling someone who has been sexually assaulted that it happened as a result of their actions/choices. This needs to be solved. We need to support victims not place guilt and burden on them. They need support to recover mentally and physically

2. I have one really important thing, a question. Why or how does society confuse the words support and scold? Instead of supporting victims of rape we blame them, scold them, tell them that it's all their fault.

3. Only 1 in 5 people report sexual assault because of a not-so-little thing called victim blaming. They hide and shame themselves because we as a society make them feel like we won’t believe them or that we will blame it on them.