Rape Culture Essay

Rape Culture: Built from birth From a very young age children have been taught by their parents that girls do one thing while guys do another. The reason for this is because our parents have been taught by their parents who were taught by their parents and so on and so fourth. When talking to most people about gender roles, they will start to see a pattern in the way they responses they receive, which will leave them with a good idea about how our society has formed the ideas and roles of sexes. Rape culture in modern day society is real and the biggest factors that contribute to it are we have been taught that boys need to grow up tough, girls need to be careful of some men, and that women need to be able to take care of a man and his needs. This way is poisonous to the

In the book a world of ideas John Mill says “it is a power that is given or offered to all men. The most brutal and the most critical.” (819) What Mill is saying is that Boys are treated different and given a power over women because men think that they need to act tough and in charge because we have raised boys to think that. Since childbirth boys have been told that they need to be tough and not to act like a girl. Our society has gone so far that we try to give boys tough or strong names even so that they will seam like they are tough. Parents also put a lot on boys’ shoulders by telling them that they need to be strong and because they are the one that people will look to in hard situations. This includes, playing army man, not crying, and learning how to act around women. The way boys play is not always in the healthiest manner and the responsibilities that boys are taught are far different than the ones girls are told. Boys are told to go outside