What Is Ovid's Metamorphoses?
Promiscuous, Testosterone, Who knows.
Since Bk times, Women have been sexually harassed by their beauty or the attire they wear. Women feel it is their fault when they ponder to themselves that if they encouraged the men to do the actions towards them. As a woman, if you are abandoned by the victimizer, you tend to feel weak and perceive men as predators and ourselves as the bait. Women encourage men to harass them by their beauty and the way they dress--unknowingly making it their own fault..
Ovid illuminates his metamorphoses towards all cases in an interesting way. First, Philomela has entered in a room dressed in her rich robes and beauty. Tereus, Philomela father would seduce Philomela with gifts and kisses with the absence of his daughter …show more content…
After all, many believe that it is the women’s fault that their beauty and the attire they wear boosts the men testosterone. Indeed, my argument that women are not the problem and men are the victimizers. People seem to ignore when a woman dresses promiscuous, and a man will criticize them by the way they dress and they’ll think they want to have sex, but it’s just their style. Women dress anyway they want because it’s their style and men don’t think about what women like to wear; they are judgemental; nor do they know what women like to wear. Women know what apparel they are wearing and they try to dress extra promiscuous just for a party to grab men’s attention. Drinking can encourage sexually activity like in the “A Rape on Campus: A Brutal Assault and Struggle for Justice at UVA” by Sabrina Rubin Erdely. “Jackie had taken three hours getting ready, straightening her long, dark, wavy hair. She'd congratulated herself on her choice of a tasteful red dress”(Erdly). What really happened to Jackie was that she was a freshman in UVA and she was going on a date with a guy named Drew at a fraternity party, but she did not know that Drew’s friends were going to be there. Imagine if she got raped with a gang of fraternity boys who raped Jackie and pushed her into a glass table; which left her face beaten up; and with a …show more content…
Men never understand that women want to look good for them and put pounds of makeup to hide their imperfections but confuse them to prostitutes. “She was dressed like a slut. Not my world, not my life, not my problem”(qtd in West). An American lady was just wearing a plain shirt and tights and a man online called her a slut because the clothes she was wearing. She was wearing the proper attire any American would wear and it was casual clothing. In other cultures/religions think what the lady in the ten hour catcalling video she was a slut because she wasn’t wearing a hijab
Since Bk times, Women have been sexually harassed by their beauty or the attire they wear. Women feel it is their fault when they ponder to themselves that if they encouraged the men to do the actions towards them. As a woman, if you are abandoned by the victimizer, you tend to feel weak and perceive men as predators and ourselves as the bait. Women encourage men to harass them by their beauty and the way they dress--unknowingly making it their own fault..
Ovid illuminates his metamorphoses towards all cases in an interesting way. First, Philomela has entered in a room dressed in her rich robes and beauty. Tereus, Philomela father would seduce Philomela with gifts and kisses with the absence of his daughter …show more content…
After all, many believe that it is the women’s fault that their beauty and the attire they wear boosts the men testosterone. Indeed, my argument that women are not the problem and men are the victimizers. People seem to ignore when a woman dresses promiscuous, and a man will criticize them by the way they dress and they’ll think they want to have sex, but it’s just their style. Women dress anyway they want because it’s their style and men don’t think about what women like to wear; they are judgemental; nor do they know what women like to wear. Women know what apparel they are wearing and they try to dress extra promiscuous just for a party to grab men’s attention. Drinking can encourage sexually activity like in the “A Rape on Campus: A Brutal Assault and Struggle for Justice at UVA” by Sabrina Rubin Erdely. “Jackie had taken three hours getting ready, straightening her long, dark, wavy hair. She'd congratulated herself on her choice of a tasteful red dress”(Erdly). What really happened to Jackie was that she was a freshman in UVA and she was going on a date with a guy named Drew at a fraternity party, but she did not know that Drew’s friends were going to be there. Imagine if she got raped with a gang of fraternity boys who raped Jackie and pushed her into a glass table; which left her face beaten up; and with a …show more content…
Men never understand that women want to look good for them and put pounds of makeup to hide their imperfections but confuse them to prostitutes. “She was dressed like a slut. Not my world, not my life, not my problem”(qtd in West). An American lady was just wearing a plain shirt and tights and a man online called her a slut because the clothes she was wearing. She was wearing the proper attire any American would wear and it was casual clothing. In other cultures/religions think what the lady in the ten hour catcalling video she was a slut because she wasn’t wearing a hijab