Sexual Assault

Reading all of these articles is just crushing, it's absolutely disgusting. The fact that all these stupid guys get away with raping someone is just deplorable. I say this because I'm addressing the fact that women are raped mostly by heterosexual men, I will not be talking about the rape of men because while it is an issue, it's not the more prevalent issue. I think the biggest problem I have with this whole subject is that people can attack the victim. That they would call her a slut or a bitch or claim she had to have been asking for it. The fact no one tells these boys that they can't rape women, they can't hurt women, and that women are told to watch their clothing, carry pepper spray, know self defense, not get drunk etc. is HORRIBLE. Why aren't we telling boys these things? It's no one's fault but theirs. It's time to cut men down (for clarification I'm not saying make them feel bad about themselves, I'm saying not teaching men that they are better than others), there are so many problems in our society including sexual assault rooted in men feeling the right to things. It starts early when we teach children that they have to fit into a gender role, and consequently teach girls that they equate to less than what boys do. Example: a boy and girl are playing together, imagine they're playing with a doll house. The boy would most likely be stopped and told that he should do something "for boys" like...well anything but do something "for girls". However flip it around, the girl is more likely going to be told it's okay if she's doing something considered "for boys". That's a problem!! We shouldn't be telling kids they're wrong for that!! Our society puts such a high price on being manly and masculine which leads to this horrible notion that boys can do a lot more than girls. "Boys will be boys" is probably one of the worst sayings I've heard and when little boys hear it over time they feel like they're invincible. A lot of rape cases wouldn't happen if we just stopped telling boys they're invincible, that their actions are excusable because they're boys, and started teaching them they should never resort to raping women for their own enjoyment.