CAPUTI: I think it's really specious to separate violence and sex. I
would disagree with some of the early feminists who would say rape is
a crime of violence, not a crime of sex. Because unfortunately in this
culture sex is completely interfused with violence, with notions of
dominance and subordination. As I said, I believe our gender roles are
constructed sowe have these two constructed genders, masculine and
feminine that are defined by one being powerful and one being
powerless. And so therefore powerlessness andpower themselves become
eroticized.
NARRATOR: To understand rape, it's important to look at who rapes.
Most rapists are young men. Most have been deviant since adolescence,
tend to be aggressive,and have problems controlling their anger.
They're often sensitive to rejection and insecure about their own
masculinity. They also have distorted views about women and sex.
SANCHEZ: they might interpret the way she responds to them in a very
friendly manner by saying "Hi", theymight interpret that as that
they're
interested in him, as having sex with him to be blunt. (GRAPHIC) TONY
NARRATOR: Tony is serving time forsexually abusing his 13-year-old
sister-in-law.
TONY: I don't believe it was rape. I believe she consented but her
boyfriend at the time didn't like it.
TONY: My mom was a cocktail waitress so I've been around females
portraying themselves as sex objects. I seen my mom in her skimpy
outfits which that was the type of work she chose.
TONY: after seeing women like that in magazines, on billboards, and
casinos wearing hardly anything, you grow up after 23 years pretty
much thinking ... that's what a lot of these women bring on
themselves. .... They want to be an object. You go to different parts
of the country and ...women don't want to be ...recognized that way.
So I'm a monster here, but yet I'm normal in Nevada.
TONY: My crime was a selfish act on my part. That's...she's gettin
over it. She's gotten over it. She's movin' on. She's goin' to
college. She's doing' good.
NARRATOR: Most rapists are never caught, and conviction rates for
those apprehended are notoriously low. According to Department of
Justice statistics, about half of accused rapists were released before
trial. Of those tried, only half were sentenced to prison. Ron Sanchez
says that during therapy inprison offenders admit crimes they've
committed as children, teenagers and adults -- sometimes disclosing as
many as 50 or 60 other crimes.
SANCHEZ: Many of them began voyeuring in homes, then eventually
escalated to burglaries, even breaking into houses at night while
people were sleeping,(to)Then escalating to the point of fantasy,
fantasies about rape and eventually planning to rape and committing
rape.
NARRATOR: Sex offenders tend to be compulsive and repetitive, the kind
of criminals who are hardest totreat. A 1989 study by the American
Psychological Associationfound no evidence that the rate of recidivism
for treated offenders was any lower than it was for offenders who
received no treatment.
SANCHEZ: I think that ya know we need to be realistic about what
therapy can do. When we talk abouttreatment, we're not talking about
adisease or an illness that we can cure with an antibiotic or
somethinglike that. It boils down to a personalchoice.
NARRATOR: However, Sanchez believes therapy for sex offenders is
crucial, if for no other reason than to identify who is not likely to
change so that they may remain separated from society.
NARRATOR: So, what is the answer? One thing is absolutely clear. We
can try to explain violence, but we must never excuse it. (pause)
Refusing to tolerate violence on any level is the first step in ending
it. So is teaching children about relationships based on respect.
NARRATOR: Denise Brown, sister ofthe late Nicole Brown, travels around
the country speaking out against violence. She talks about beginning
with a simple message to children.
BROWN: A child who places his hand on a piece of paper, traces
theoutside of his hand, colors his hand whatever color he wants to,
writes whatever saying he wants on it, andthey take a pledge, "hands
are not for hitting. My hand will not commit violence." It's that
simple.
NARRATION: Robert Bly agrees thatstopping male violence must begin
early on in child rearing.
BLY: ...the younger men need teachers as to how to go into a gentle
and responsible masculinity. And the mothers try to teach them but the
fathers and the older men need to, too. They're never going tolearn
gentle, responsible masculinity from the mass media or the television.
KIMMEL: If nurturing and loving and caring is something that both
fathers and mothers do around the house, if they see their mother and
their father doing this, now remember...the one thing you can always
count on is every little boy thinks that his father is a real man.So
they will grow up to think that nurturing and loving and caring is
something is something that grownups do. And when those little boys
get to be grown-ups they'll be nurturing and loving and caring , too,
because that's what real men do. So, it's actually a real opportunity
through fathering that men can be raising a new generationof boys.
NARRATOR: If we are really serious about ending violence against
women, most experts say the punishment for such crimes must beharsh.
Men -- and women -- must see that violence won't be tolerated.
HANKS: Violence towards family members should be treated in the same
kind of way as violence towardstrangers. And we as a society have been
very ambivalent about protecting women in their own homes, because we
have not wantedto see that women are most at risk from men they know.
GHIGLIERI: If a rapist gets away scott free or gets away with minor
punishment, that means rape is a viable sexual strategy for a large
number of men. Rape is inevitable ifwe don't punish it.
STEINEM: We have to stop talking about how many women are raped, and
we have to talk about how manymen rape. We use these passive verbs all
the time as if it happened ya know by magic. Someone did it. And we
have to identify that someone. And everything we know tells us that
they only begin to takeit seriously when there are very serious
consequences.
NARRATOR: Michael Kimmel calls it a matter of carrots and sticks .
KIMMEL: I think the stick is we need very strong laws with
uncompromising enforcement and allthe way through the legal system
sothat we make it clear as culture that we won't stand for this. As a
culture we can say the way we try to say around murder for example, or
auto theft for example, this is beyond the pale, you cannot do this.We
will come down so hard on you, you won't want to do this. O.K. So we
take away all the incentives, all the possibilities, we make it clear
this is not O.K. in this culture. The second thing though is that's
not enough, that's the stick. What's the carrot? (to) If we as men
make it very clear to the women in our lives that we don't support
men's violence against women, that we are actively opposed to it, that
we are willing to confront other men who we see doing aggressive
things, etc., then our relationships with women will actually improve.
NARRATION: If any progress is to be made in the way society deals with
these issues, we must cross the gender gap and work together on
solutions, understanding that these are crimes not just against women,
but against humanity. Ending them is going to take a shiftin our
attitudes and our thinking as men, as women, and as a society.
NARRATOR: At a Washington, D.C. rally, thousands of T-shirts tell
countless stories of men's violence against women. As a society, we
must take these stories seriously, understanding that women have a
different reality of their own safety than do men. Men and women must
say no to violence. (Pause) The answer lies within each of us and what
we will or will not tolerate as individuals, as communities, and as a
nation to allow our daughters, oursisters, our mothers and all women
in our lives to walk alone without fear to Love.
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