by: Jireh
Rape culture has been evidently seen nowadays, with the progress of technology it affects a wider scope for victims and even instances it became naturally seen due to the foul practices of people and treated rape and sexual violence as a joke to many. In which they don’t take things with understanding that rape is a serious case, and the victims shouldn’t be the ones to be blamed for the initiative of a perverted mind. An article from the Time magazine, named as “The New Scarlet Letter” is all about revenge porn or also known as consensual porn wherein the host of the article is the victim herself, Kara Jeft. Wherein her nude photos had leaked online without her consent and how this thing changed her whole life full of shame and left her wondering if everybody she encounters has seen her naked. She was the victim, yet she’s being blamed.
It was written for it is not only Jeft herself had experienced this kind of instance, yet women around the world. And this issue has been prevalent and there will always be the point where the victim is still blamed. It showed evidences and even statistical analysis about the issue and the insights of each victim has. It portrays a new perspective about sexual violations that comes easier for it is a new era for digital technology that enables easier access towards a large mass of audience. Its viewpoint is not only limited with Kara Jeft but includes the fellow victims and how they face reality with their shameful past hidden beneath their faces. It is directly stating reality empirically and written while quoting other victims.
Hearing these stories becomes pitiful and at the same time, heartbreaking on how the victims’ life can be easily ruined and on how the perpetrator can easily go away with it and proceed with their lives like as if nothing happened. Out all the mistakes being done, it is still the judgement of the mass that matters the most, sad to say it has been a culture and been inflicted in those perverted minds that woman should always be the ones to be blamed and be ashamed of what happened to them. Yet one word needs to be learned by everyone and it is easy to understand and spelled out loud, C-O-N-S-E-N-T. Even first graders know this one, why is it hard to understand?
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