#Afuni Kindly Let's Talk Something About Oppression Against Feminine Since When Till Date
Oppression is the inequitable use of authority, law, or physical force to prevent
Sexual Violence
Use of force or coercion—physical or cultural—to impose unwanted sexual contact or rape
is a physical expression of oppression, both a result of oppression and a means to
maintain oppression. Oppression is both a cause and an effect of sexual violence. Sexual
violence and other forms of violence can create psychological trauma, and make it more
difficult for the members of the group subjected to the violence to experience autonomy,
choice, respect, and safety. Religions and Cultures Many cultures and religions justify
the oppression of women by attributing sexual power to them, that men must then rigidly
control to maintain their own purity and power. Reproductive functions—including childbirth
and menstruation, sometimes breastfeeding and pregnancy—are seen as disgusting. Thus, in
these cultures, women are often required to cover their bodies and faces to keep men,
assumed not to be in control of their own sexual actions, from being overpowered. Women are
also treated either like children or like property in many cultures and religions. For
example, the punishment for rape in some cultures is that the rapist's wife is given over
to the rape victim's husband or father to rape as he wishes, as revenge. Or a woman who is
involved in adultery or other sex acts outside monogamous marriage is punished more severely
than the man who is involved, and a woman's word about rape is not taken as seriously as a
man's word about being robbed would be. Women's status as somehow lesser than men is used
to justify men's power over women.
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