The environment secretary joked that being in the Today show studio with John Humphrys was like entering a bedroom with Harvey Weinstein – “you hope to emerge with your dignity intact”. Why That’s a Problem: Rape jokes minimise the seriousness of rape and sexual assault, and the way it harms its victims. Gove’s joke above in fact blames victims by implying the women who spent time with Weinstein knew what might come, but carried on regardless. The phrase “dignity intact” is also sexually loaded linked to ideas of women’s sexual honour and virtue needing to be “intact” to have value. This is really worrying, given Gove’s former role as education minister and recent figures which show almost one-third (29%) of 16-18 year old girls say they have experienced unwanted sexual touching at school.. Rape and sexual violence are never funny. It. Is. Never. A. Joke. When we are thinking about the news reporting we see on sexual violence we need to try to ask the question: Who stands to gain by minimising or dismissing the allegations of women? The answer is simply their attackers. Based on the stetement above, what is the methodology that been use in this statement and critique the methodology of the statement. Explain.
Example 5: Michael Gove
The environment secretary joked that being in the Today show studio with John Humphrys was like entering a bedroom with Harvey Weinstein – “you hope to emerge with your dignity intact”.
Why That’s a Problem: Rape jokes minimise the seriousness of rape and sexual assault, and the way it harms its victims. Gove’s joke above in fact blames victims by implying the women who spent time with Weinstein knew what might come, but carried on regardless. The phrase “dignity intact” is also sexually loaded linked to ideas of women’s sexual honour and virtue needing to be “intact” to have value.
This is really worrying, given Gove’s former role as education minister and recent figures which show almost one-third (29%) of 16-18 year old girls say they have experienced unwanted sexual touching at school..
Rape and sexual violence are never funny. It. Is. Never. A. Joke. When we are thinking about the news reporting we see on sexual violence we need to try to ask the question: Who stands to gain by minimising or dismissing the allegations of women? The answer is simply their attackers.
Based on the stetement above, what is the methodology that been use in this statement and critique the methodology of the statement. Explain.
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