Paper Rant
Since I don't want to bother anyone with my ranting, I decided the best place to do this was on lj.
Sociology stuff
I have been working on my last paper for Social Deviance. The only option I have since it's the last paper of the term and there is only one more subject we are going to go over, is Sexual Assault on College Campuses. Which I am comfortable discussing having past training in DVSAS and all. I know sexual assault is all over college campuses in high rates.
Well in order to do my paper I have to find a current event to compare/contrast to the reading on Sexual Assault on Campuses. I came across a Newsweek article about Sexual Assault in the military that peeked my interest cause it had the same format as my reading (which makes it easier to do a direct comparison). But because the article was a little too short I began to look for more about the subject.
I found very few articles about it, but the information within them took me by surprise. From the amount of sexual assault in the military, one would expect the amount of news articles that are reserved for college sexual assault. There is high rates of sexual assault in the military against females. In many cases it is between a Male drill instructor assaulting female recruits. I don't know if it's from watching NCIS or what... but learning this really pisses me off. Maybe it's because I've never even heard of such a thing before which means it's highly covered up... I continued to research and the more I researched the more pissed off I became. Statistics are huge for sexual assualt in the miilitary at 60-70% of females having encountered some sort of sexual assault within their military career. These rates for a female recruit are 10times more likely to be sexually assaulted than a civilian. From one of the bigger ones that hte media caught (Tailhook), many of the cases of victims committed suicide.
I just can't believe there is this huge problem and no one is trying to raise awarness at all. I wonder why... I think removing sexual assault from the military is way more important than removing Don't Ask, Don't Tell.
Maybe it's because I expect the military to be more professional (I don't know why)... It represents America and should have strict codes, yet at rates of 60-70% doesn't mean it's just individuals that get by the screening process... it means there is a systematically problem in the way the military is training and handleing something. My suspicions is the deeply gender segregated mindset the military still holds despite females now being allowed to serve.
However something is happening... and it needs to be stopped. And it pisses me off.
This was the first time I've ever had to stop writing a paper to try and come to terms with my feelings before attempting to write about it again.
Learning this makes me want to march into a military office and demand to go up the chain of command until I learn what the root of the problem is (which is kind of obvious that the root of the problem are men's attitudes in the military).
Ugh.
So I worked out last night to try and work off my pent-up frustration. The whole time I imagined kicking the whole male species in the face.
I've never felt so feminist in a while.
Sociology stuff
I have been working on my last paper for Social Deviance. The only option I have since it's the last paper of the term and there is only one more subject we are going to go over, is Sexual Assault on College Campuses. Which I am comfortable discussing having past training in DVSAS and all. I know sexual assault is all over college campuses in high rates.
Well in order to do my paper I have to find a current event to compare/contrast to the reading on Sexual Assault on Campuses. I came across a Newsweek article about Sexual Assault in the military that peeked my interest cause it had the same format as my reading (which makes it easier to do a direct comparison). But because the article was a little too short I began to look for more about the subject.
I found very few articles about it, but the information within them took me by surprise. From the amount of sexual assault in the military, one would expect the amount of news articles that are reserved for college sexual assault. There is high rates of sexual assault in the military against females. In many cases it is between a Male drill instructor assaulting female recruits. I don't know if it's from watching NCIS or what... but learning this really pisses me off. Maybe it's because I've never even heard of such a thing before which means it's highly covered up... I continued to research and the more I researched the more pissed off I became. Statistics are huge for sexual assualt in the miilitary at 60-70% of females having encountered some sort of sexual assault within their military career. These rates for a female recruit are 10times more likely to be sexually assaulted than a civilian. From one of the bigger ones that hte media caught (Tailhook), many of the cases of victims committed suicide.
I just can't believe there is this huge problem and no one is trying to raise awarness at all. I wonder why... I think removing sexual assault from the military is way more important than removing Don't Ask, Don't Tell.
Maybe it's because I expect the military to be more professional (I don't know why)... It represents America and should have strict codes, yet at rates of 60-70% doesn't mean it's just individuals that get by the screening process... it means there is a systematically problem in the way the military is training and handleing something. My suspicions is the deeply gender segregated mindset the military still holds despite females now being allowed to serve.
However something is happening... and it needs to be stopped. And it pisses me off.
This was the first time I've ever had to stop writing a paper to try and come to terms with my feelings before attempting to write about it again.
Learning this makes me want to march into a military office and demand to go up the chain of command until I learn what the root of the problem is (which is kind of obvious that the root of the problem are men's attitudes in the military).
Ugh.
So I worked out last night to try and work off my pent-up frustration. The whole time I imagined kicking the whole male species in the face.
I've never felt so feminist in a while.