Sentences with phrase «as female victims»

In the past ten or 15 years many states have revised rape laws to encompass male as well as female victims, marital rape, acts of sexual coercion not involving intercourse and assaults in which there is no instance of resistance or physical harm.

Not exact matches

LANSING, Mich. (AP)-- Sports doctor Larry Nassar is on his way to prison for the rest of his life for molesting scores of young female athletes, but the scandal is far from over at Michigan State University as victims, lawmakers and a judge demand to know why he wasn't stopped years ago.

e. man + brother's widow, («Levirate» marriage) f. rapist and his victim, (Deuteronomy 22), g. male solders and their female prisoners, which can include virgin girls, who are still children, h. as «assigned», (female slave to the owners male slave).

They are leading tortured lives and they come to church for comfort and healing and more often than not, male victims of sexual abuse are not given the same regard as females.

This incredibly irresponsible article about sexting portrays young males as hapless victims of their own sexual and approval needs and young females as those responsible for redirecting the young men into more appropriate behaviors.

Often portrayed as dominating the sex industry, the scale of the victims of human trafficking represents a minority of sex workers in the UK: less than 10 % of female sex workers (2600 out of 30000) working indoors have been trafficked according to the Association of Chief Police Officers» 2010 report.

I have to say it worries me that female victims may be coerced in to being reunited with violent criminals, who see them as a sought of legal lifeline to stay in this country.

And she herself continues to let down the many female asylum seekers who have been victims of violence yet are needlessly locked up in detention centres such as Yarl's Wood.

The attacking female used a male orangutan as a «hired gun» to help corner and attack the victim in what scientists say is the first observed incident of lethal aggression among orangutans

Even more surprising is that the attacking female used a male orangutan as a «hired gun» to help corner and attack the victim, the scientist said.

And while women's rights advocates such as Betty Friedan took exception to the lurid premise of female victims being skinned alive (based on the real - life crimes of Ed Gein, who also was an inspiration for «Psycho»), a closer viewing will reveal it is probably one of the most feminist - forward - thinking horror movies ever made.

For this year's celebration, the females behind the newly - created Time's Up initiative have encouraged attendees to wear the dark hue as a way of expressing solidarity for the victims, but also changing the narrative on how things are done in the industry.

Michelle Forbes, who appeared in the first season of The Killings, was also reportedly in talks to assume the other female lead, either as Semyon's wife, or Velcoro's ex-wife, a victim of sexual assault.

As such, the first half of Phantom Thread appears to pass along familiar lines: another story of a tortured male creative genius — yes, his gowns truly are gasp - worthy — taking out his art - fuelled frustrations and insecurities on a blameless female victim.

TEAM: Bruno Heller (w, ep), David Nutter (d, ep) LOGLINE: A female lawyer and a male ex-con team up as «victim advocates,» going to the very edge of the law to right wrongs and fight for the underdog.

Very loosely based on Juan José Campanella's 2010 film of (minus the article «the») the same name, itself based on a 2005 novel, «Secret in Their Eyes» transplants the setting from Buenos Aires to Los Angeles with a high - alert post-9 / 11 backdrop and makes the gender switch from male to female (Julia Roberts), as well as the relationship with the murder victim (a daughter, not a wife).

Time's up for actresses playing victims, as warriors take the lead in films that celebrate female strength and independence.

Isabelle Huppert is superb as a complex rape victim in Paul Verhoeven's fearless Elle, while Kelly Reichardt's study of female identity is lifted to the heavens by Kristen Stewart

Many female stars and other guests are expected to dress in monochrome for Sunday's ceremony as a statement of solidarity with victims of sexual harassment and abuse.

Viewing the Female Prisoner Scorpion movies was like a self - exorcism that allowed my own history as a sexual assault victim to be an event I could discuss more openly instead of carrying it silently like a millstone attached to my back.

It remains to be seen if Argento's forthcoming film Card Dealer (2003), which deals with a serial killer dispatching female victims live on a webcam broadcast, will consolidate his reputation as a director able to take the horror genre to new heights of stylistic complexity through the fusion of atrocity and artifice.

Carried out as a cultural «rite of passage», girls are subjected to intense physical and emotional pain as they fall victim to one of four types of FGM, all resulting in the partial or total removal of external female genitalia for non-medical reasons.

The story, about a 32 - year - old female realtor who is abducted and held captive in a mountain cabin for a year, is told in the first person narrative as sessions with the victim's psychiatrist.

If your female dog (i.e. the puppy's mother) is victim of lactation failure, you must avoid breeding her again as explained in our in - depth article on lactating dogs.

As a female traveler who often goes solo, I know what you meant but I also can not support the victim blaming.

Female characters are allowed to be occasional victims just as male characters are allowed to be occasional victims.

In the sixth video of the Feminist Frequency Tropes Vs. Women in Video Games series, Anita Sarkeesian expands upon the ideas from her last video — «Woman as Background Decoration» — and remarks on how female bodies are often seen both as sexual objects and as victims of male violence.

Alison Saar hangs a female nude by her ankles, as the victim of a lynching, for Strange Fruit.

The exhibition also repositions the female role in recent struggle histories — recasting the lead character as a woman in the black liberation narrative to challenge the gender bias inherent to such narratives, which tend to pit a black male as the victim of colonisation and, hence, the liberator of the post-colony.

Both terms could be understood as relating to the technology of photography and image - making on the one hand, and on the the other, as conjuring ideas of the female body as vessel, perhaps even as victim.

About celebrated roles for women, Soloski says, «This season, I've worried that we still need to approach female characters as victims to accept them as heroes.»

Features female stereotypes and the male gaze directed at women (as sex symbol, victim, and so on).

For instance, in 2000, the average employment income for full - time female employees working year - round was 70.8 % of the income of male workers.25 In addition, gender interacts with other factors, such as race, ethnic origin and disability to compound that economic disadvantage.26 Another persistent barrier to equality for women is gender - based violence in the form of spousal and sexual assaults, for which the majority of victims still do not seek support from the criminal justice system.27 Accessing justice is a major concern for Aboriginal women, who experience high rates of violence ranging from assault to murder.28

Shirley Bennett, a legal executive at Percy Hughes & Roberts, who specialises in domestic violence cases, says: «While abuse cases involving female victims of men are the most widely reported, there are significant portions of society that feel as though they have nowhere to turn if they fall victim to domestic violence.

One study that I conducted with several colleagues found that males were more likely than females to report having witnessed a violent event, such as seeing a friend or family member killed, while females were more likely to mention being the victim of violence, such as sexual or physical abuse.77

The Impact of Childhood Maltreatment on PTSD Symptoms Among Female Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence Gobin, Iverson, Mitchell, Vaughn, & Resick (2013) Violence and Victims, 28 (6) View Abstract Presents results of a study that examined IPV as a potential mediator of the association between childhood maltreatment and severity of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptom clusters (reexperiencing, avoidance, numbing, and hyperarousal) among a sample of 425 women seeking help for recent IPV.

The observed cross-loadings of individual items as well as items that belonged to other domains than in the conceptual model may reflect that female victims often are not exposed to one form of violence in isolation of the other.32 For example, the sexual violence item «Forced me to have sex against my will by using his / her physical strength (by hitting, holding me firmly or threatening me with a weapon),» which loaded in both the physical and sexual IPV components, is hard to divide into one or the other category.

«That there are as many male victims of violence as female... is a significant distortion of well - grounded research data.

Although less is known about the consequences of domestic violence for male victims, there is evidence that men who are abused experience the same constellation of physical and psychological outcomes as their female counterparts (for reviews, see Dutton, 2007; Hines & Malley - Morrison, 2005).

I am a female victim as an alienated parent and paid child support voluntarily versus being chased later by the alienated children.

There is also a clear connection between incarceration of Indigenous women and being a victim of violence — there are extremely high rates of substance abuse and reporting of having been a victim of violence among Indigenous female prisoners — this highlights the need for support programs for Indigenous women in prison and also post-release (such as healing and re-integration, housing etc).

She's led annual walks to raise awareness of female feticide, organized candlelight vigils for Amanda Todd and all victims of bullying, rape and extreme acts of violence such as the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in the U.S..