Framming The Rape Victim

Something that I think about and what we've discussed in class is separating rape from all other crimes. The author is trying to create the idea that all crimes are sexual crimes and that separating rape from other crimes has nothing but negative side effects like making it more of women s issue instead of a social issue. I know that part of that is also the fact that we make victims feminine and society always makes women feminine because of the gender roles our culture has created and placed on everyone at birth but my bigger point is why I think rape is separated from other crimes. I think the real reason rape has become its own thing instead of being part of and treated like all other crimes is because what the crime actually is. Sex for the most part is big part of being human and its something that pretty much all of us like to do. It give us pleasure and its way of socializing with another person on a very personal level. So when you rape some one it destroys that part of sex for them. It no longer becomes pleasurable and being able to communicate via sex becomes difficult. I know other crimes can leave emotional and psychological scars as well but I would argue that rape's emotional repercussions are so much worse. It takes away our humanity on a different level, it takes a normal human interaction that helps us be stable people and corrupts the whole experience. Thats why it is separated. Its hurting some one in so many different ways. I also agree that the way we treat rape survivors is harsh and should change but I think I would like to keep it separate from other crimes because of the way if hurts people and how it takes something beautiful and corrupts it.