Samentha Moore is a three time victim of sexual assault. Looking back at her tragic series of sexual assaults, Moore reminisces on her habitual inexorable feelings of “self-conscious and blaming” “About the National Sexual Assault Telephone Hotline | RAINN”). Moore experienced her first two traumatic assaults before college; she was left vacant, aloof and disconsolated after the police disdainfully responded to her assaults. She experienced her third assault in college, and because of the police’s prior unsatisfactory response, Moore was discouraged to report it and left miserable and unable to desert her pain, loneliness and self-punishing ways. Her agony later developed into an eating disorder; Moore thought maybe if she “made [herself] …show more content…
Many people take rape too lightly, almost as if they believe it’s okay. When these rapists see this lack of backlash, they are encouraged to keep doing as they please due to the low levels of consequences. On many college campuses, the “universities encourage victims not to report rape,” even though most rape cases that occur in college “mainly occur on campus and a good percentage occur at fraternity parties and less than 5 percent are reported” ("Preventing Rape on College Campuses"). It is completely unacceptable because the victims are then oppressed and left to deal with their pain with no way to find justice. This repeated lack of justice is exactly why the rapists feel comfortable to act as they do and that’s completely absurd. This also is another reason why some rape cases aren’t reported. These universities fail to do their jobs and protect their students because they are trying to avoid opening up that conversation about the malign effects of sexual assault to help prevent it. Since the problem isn’t affecting the majority of the population, it is yet again pushed aside and suppressed. It is impractical to find a solution minimizing sexual assault if as a society people are incapable of opening up discussions about