On Respect for Women Essay #4 The Sexual Abuse of Women

It seems odd to have to argue that there exists a difference between men and women, however, our young are being taught in school and elsewhere in books, movies, cartoons; in all kinds of media they are told the only difference is in their genitals.  The goal of this education is to destroy in our young, respect for all the moral principles inculcated within the American people since the Revolution.  There is no God; marriage, viewed as a relationship between one man and one woman, is an outdated relationship.  Thus marriage (no longer sacred) can be a relationship: man-woman, man-man, woman-woman, multiple partners.

Strange as these things seem one can only imagine that the consequent destruction of society will be the result of such nonsense, but nonsense is what we are getting from the one who was elected President in 2008 promising "change" which never was defined; nor did the poor unquestioning people who voted for "change"ever dream of what we now see as "change" - the avowed attempt of a heretofore respected national political party to perpetuate themselves as sole leaders of a secular state to replace an outdated American Republic.

The question regarding the differences between men and women, in light of the above situation, becomes of vital importance in stemming the tide of the moral corruption in our society, so easily accomplished because of the ignorance in so many people of this difference.

A few days ago an article appeared in Yahoo concerning a group of women in Australia who were going to have a walk demonstrating against a policeman who had said that if women didn't dress as sl.... there wouldn't be as many rapes. So in protest the women organized what they called a sl.... walk; one of the women saying "we should have the right to dress any way we like and the way we dress should not be used as a justification for rape".

The problem is that these women, by what they're doing and saying, are professing ignorance of how a man, in general, responds to a good-looking woman, especially if she is dressed in a manner that accentuates various parts of her female body. A man is sexually aroused when a woman dresses in this fashion. There are two types of men in terms of their sexual arousal in such a situation. Those who have learned to control their passions and those who have not. Among those who have not learned to control their passions, there are those who, given an opportunity, will take advantage of a woman and give vent to their lust and molest her.

Some women say that men are beasts. If they take this position purely on the basis of men being sexually aroused when they see a good looking woman, they are calling men beasts simply because it is their nature to be aroused sexually.  Men are beasts if they allow these arousals to lead them to molest a woman.  Fortunately, the great majority of men learn to control these desires, leaving the consenting to such desires within marriage or at least a loving, mutual consenting, relationship with a woman.

What both men and women within our society need to understand is that the male of our species continually has to deal with this tendency toward sexual arousal upon the mere sight of a woman; the arousal is natural, whereas a lack of control of this arousal can be a serious problem.

The solution to the problem is really a combination of good upbringing and a moral code to which both men and women conscientiously adhere.  We live, unfortunately, in a society that has little respect for the real value of women; women are considered playthings and men playboys.  One cannot go into any store and not find soft or hard porn on the front of every magazine.  Women are playthings to be used to satisfy the desires of men.  This is cool!  This is fun!  Women in Australia and elsewhere should protest for a cleanup of this degradation of women.

We do not have to go to the extreme of forcing women to dress in clothing that completely hides them as some cultures do; such cultures display an utter disregard for women.  Furthermore, it shows that men in such a society fear and hate their own sexuality and blame women for such emotions, leading to a brutal oppression of God's most beautiful and beloved creatures.

One little story has really given me an understanding of how our views of women could be changed for the better.  A woman who was accustomed to dressing herself in a less than modest way, after making a change to more modest attire, made this amazing observation:  "When I dressed in attire designed to attract men I found that men were interested only in my body, but when I changed to nice clothing that did not unnecessarily accent my body, I found that men were interested in ME!"