GENDER ROLES AND RAPE
IS RAPE BUILT INTO OUR CULTURALLY PRESCRIBED GENDER ROLES? GENDER IS A SOCIALLY CONSTRUCTED PATTERN OF DIFFERENCES USING SEX AS A BASIS IF CHARACTERISTICS WERE THE SAME WOULD WE HAVE GENDER?
WE OFTEN SEE WOMEN IN PANTS AND WOULD NOT BE SURPRISED TO SEE A WOMAN IN A DRESS. WE SEE MEN IN PANTS, WHAT DO YOU THINK WHEN YOU SEE A MAN IN A DRESS?
DENNIS RODMAN
GENDER SCRIPTS LEARNED ASPECTS OF GENDER LANGUAGE INTONATIONS HUMOR INTERPERSONAL BEHAVIOR, ETC.
SEX SCRIPTS DIFFERENT THAN GENDER SCRIPTS SEX-SCRIPT HYPOTHESIS IS: x032/syn-sex.html x032/syn-sex.html
CHARACTERISTICS MEN ARE INDEPENDENT, BETTER AT SPATIAL TASKS, AGGRESSIVE, ASSERTIVE, IN CONTROL OF EMOTIONS AMBITIOUS
CHARACTERISTICS WOMEN ARE DEPENDENT, HAVE GOOD VERBAL SKILLS PASSIVE EMOTIONAL NURTURING CRIES EASILY
MEN ARE: HAPPIEST WHEN PURSUING A CAREER PREOCCUPIED WITH STUDIES OR JOB WELL INFORMED IN ISSUES OF BUSINESS, WORLD AFFAIRS, AND MECHANICALLY INCLINED
WOMEN ARE HAPPIEST WHEN CARING FOR CHILDREN PREOCCUPIED WITH APPEARANCE DISINTERESTED IN BUSINESS AND WORLD AFFAIRS AND ARE INEPT MECHANICALLY
WHAT ROLE DOES GENDER PLAY? HOW DO THE GENERAL GENDER CHARACTERISTICS MATCH THAT OF THE IMAGE OF: THE TYPICAL RAPIST? TYPICAL VICTIM?