Women s False Assumptions About Women And Society

â€Å"We have an abundance of rape and violence against women in this country and on this Earth, though it s almost never treated as a civil rights or human rights issue, or a crisis, or even a pattern. Violence doesn t have a race, a class, a religion, or a nationality, but it does have a gender.† That was said by Rebecca Solnit, author of Men Explain Things To Me, a book regarding men’s false assumptions about women and society. Sexual violence against women is an ongoing issue facing multiple different countries around the world. Many places have done things to minimize the violence, as well as completely eliminate it from their culture, but this problem of sexual violence is extremely evident and nearly uncontrollable in Egypt especially. Egyptian women were continuously being sexually violated no matter the circumstances, after a law was passed, limiting sexual harassment, there were repercussions within the community and very little change took place. 99.3 percent of Egyptian women have been victims of sexual violence sometime throughout their life (Schultz 1). Sexual violence is an obstacle that the social community has to overcome, but is having a considerably difficult time doing so. Egypt is a country that has been socially destroyed by the acceptance and allowance of sexual violence against women. 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