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Essay / Twenty-something women and the paradox of sexual freedom
Jayanthi explains her experience of sexual violence against African men in a very light-hearted manner. In telling her story, Jayanthi did not use any words to show that she was part of the sexual violence, she describes this experience as "a disturbing version of sexual exploitation" (Bell 36). Bell uses Jayanthi's example to show how societal pressure can leave a young woman in a vulnerable situation. What if Jayanthi used words such as force, aggression or even rape to describe her experience with four African men? This would have made Jayanthi more sympathetic to the people who had heard his story. This kind of word would make people hearing the story focus more on the violence and criticize the violence instead of thinking about the events that led to her ending up in this situation. Exaggerated use of words to describe influencing people's minds and changing their opinions on a specific subject. A word described as “scarecrow” creates a dreadful and terrible image in the minds of the public. The word was used by the sheriff to describe the murder of Matt Shepard. Gladwell writes that “When he [the sheriff] described the situation to us, he told us that [Shepard] had been found by a mountain biker, tied to a fence like a scarecrow. »(Loffreda 238). This phrasing caught public attention and helped make Shepard's death a major issue among the public. The images created by this word have become the symbol of a cause against violence. If the sheriff had not used exaggerated language, this may not have attracted much public attention. It's also possible that people saw this problem in a different way. The framing of an event changes a person's perspective and opinion, which is part of their identity. The people's word also functions as a "tipping point" for media reporting, which affects the people's views much more broadly..