Stop Justifying Men Who Rapee Jones Analysis

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Second opinion paragraph – Franciele Bueno

http://edition.cnn.com/2016/09/05/opinions/stop-justifying-men-who-rape-jones/

Topic sentence: To justify men who rape is really wrong and society needs to understand that a rapist has to pay for his crime.

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In the opinion piece entitled "Stop justifying men who rape", written by Roxanne Jones, on CNN's website, she asks, in general terms, the end of the attempt to justify male rapists, claiming that they are good men, family men, good sons, beloved for all. In fact, not only in the United States, but in Brazil, and I believe that in most countries of the world, the story is always the same: a child, young or adult woman is raped and then the blame falls on the victim, who suffers from
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At the same time, society tries, in every way, to exempt man from guilt by this type of crime. This culture of rape has come a long time, and it is tied to the machismo that has been practiced for hundreds of years. This idea is even so calcified in our subconscious that it leads many families of the victims to believe that the guilt of violence was really theirs. Despite this, thanks to the various feminist movements that have emerged in recent decades, and, on a larger scale, in recent years, people have gradually come into contact with the truth of the facts: men has no right over a woman's body and nothing can be used as a justification for the practice of rape. Even because, it is not necessary to wear a short dress or miniskirt for the woman runs the risk of being raped. On a Brazilian blog called “Think Olga”, which talks about feminism, there is a section where women tell their stories about rape. For their testimony, it is clear to understand that the way you act …show more content…
Going further, one of the charges that fall on the rapist is that he is ill, psychopathic or has any other mental disorder. However, this arises as yet another justification for the barbaric crime practiced. No, the man who thinks he can do everything, from forcing the girl to stay with him in a party to having sex with the woman under the influence of alcohol, unconscious, even if he claims that she consented to, for example, cannot be blameless. The situation gets worse when the rapist is a public figure, because not only people close to him come to his defense, but also his audience and even the media can try to manipulate the facts in order to minimize the occurrence, instead of report them. Or even worse, women who have the courage to report the rape, or to denounce, since the beginning of the journey already suffer attempts to be discredited, to have the violence they have suffered minimized, including by authorities who will judge the case and, in some situations, define the rapist's sentence. In the article, Roxanne Jones reports cases of rapists whose sentences have been