Society has become blind and desensitized to abuse. A major form of abuse the society has looked past is sexual abuse. Sexual abuse is directed mainly towards people that lack power by people that have power. People that often experience sexual abuse are women. One form of sexual abuse is rape, and it is highly underreported. In Resisting Violence Against Women, statistics show that sexual assault occurs every two minutes, rape occurs every eight minutes, and about 56 women are victimized every hour. Rape culture within society often blames these women rather than seeks to help them find justice. Rapes often go unreported because of this. Women are also less likely to report rape if they know their assailant. For women that do choose to report their rape, they are often faced with questions of what they were wearing, how much did they drink that night, and how did they behave? Even in cases where a woman is drugged, it is hard for people to believe that she was assaulted due to how fast the drug metabolizes. It leaves little evidence to support a woman’s claim of being drugged. Sexual assault victims are the only victims that are blamed for what happened to them. This makes it extremely hard for women to feel safe in reporting being raped. They fear they will be blamed, as well as told they are only doing it for attention. According to FBI reports though, less than three percent of rape accusations are false. We as a society must continue to combat the ideas of rape culture and work for justice for victims of sexual violence.
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