The Hunting Ground Analysis

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In an article from a former college athlete, Ray Gallagher, a field hockey player, she mentions that sports culture is branch of rape culture. She states that schools hold their athletes on high pedestals and that these athletes are there to prove their dominance. She mentions that male athletes are prized and rewarded for being aggressive and dominate on the field and when they get rewarded, they get praised by saying they can get any girl they want. Being an athlete in college showed her that because of who she is, she gets much more respect than non-athlete students. They get excused from class because they have an away game, and professors would pass them because they too also played sports while in school. In her closing statement, she mentioned that when she would be changing into her uniform, the football team would wait outside of the female locker room and stare at the girls leaving. “Any privilege I'd enjoyed as a jock vanished in those moments, because at the end of the day, no many how many trophies I won, I was just another piece of …show more content…
There are a bunch of media outlets that normalize rape. These outlets include movies, television shows, music and even advertisements for food and clothes. There is a movie called The Hunting Ground which was made in 2015, which talks about rape cases in Harvard, UNC a Chapel Hill, Amherst College, and Notre Dame. It even goes into talking about the fraternity Sigma Alpha Epsilon. They talk to survivors of rape and their families and discuss the details about what did and didn’t happen after reporting. Television shows like Law & Order: SVU show rape on a daily basis. The point of the show is about the NYPD Special Victims Unit, but it’s still showing us rape in everyday culture. Brands use rape as a way to advertise their products. One being a vodka that shows a male holding a woman and the caption saying “It goes down smoothly unlike some