Hi, my name is Allison Ray. I just recently turned 18 years old and am currently enrolled in my second semester of college. I have created this blog for my HUM 150 Women’s Gender Studies class here at Durham Technical Community College. I have chosen to focus specifically on sexual harassment and to what extent it can reach as my topic for the semester. So many women (and men for that matter) are sexually harassed on a daily basis, and in a variety of different settings. Sexual harassment and assault can occur in a multitude of social settings such as the workplace, school, church, the store, or even in your own home. In the image representing sexual harassment/assault below, sexual assault is occurring in the workplace. Sexual harassment is a normalized phenomenon, especially among young women of this generation. Quite often, young women make sense of and cope with the pervasive violence in their lives by framing it as routine, like it is no big deal. Women are often taught that we should take the inappropriate attention as a compliment, laugh it off, or to just ignore it in general. I want to better understand why sexual harassment is so commonly overlooked in society today. I suspect that by the end of the semester, my knowledge of this subject will have widened tremendously.
This video is an extremely mild representation of how extreme sexual harassment can become but is still very informative.
Allison's HUM150 E-Portfolio 