Learned social behaviors -Bria Shelby

Davis's "Betrayed by the Angel" tells the story of the her rape, an incident that happened years before in her childhood, and how the experience affected her years after. The article says a lot about submission and how we are conditioned to make sure that men's needs come first. This starts from a young age, as shown in the reading. This idea of submitting to masculine power is a big issue that happens slowly overtime where one seemingly insignificant thing can escalate to much bigger, more horrific events; her rape can be associated all the way back to when a boy picked on her as a child. From there, she learned to quiet herself and become more passive, letting male counterparts do what they please. Of course it was was not her fault that she was raped, but unfortunately she learned that it was okay for men to treat her like that.  The author had more sympathy for her rapist than the rapist did himself. It is because society teaches girls to suffer through things, to never speak their mind. They are taught to serve the needs of men, no matter what kind of pain they may go through. The opposite can be said for her rapist. The man that raped her was also probably the type of boy who stuck pencils in girls arms. And the boy that abused her as a child probably grew up the be the same type of man as the one that raped her. Both of them grew up with the world centered around them, they grew up with a sense of entitlement. We need to start taking responsibly for how men act and teach them from a young age that they cannot have everything that they what, that they are not entitled to anything.