Author: Dylan Galindo

Small acts of living

Within this passage Allan Wade proposes an interesting thoery about therapy. Wade suggest that whenever person are badly treated they will resist. Wade views this act of resisting as a symtpom of health inducing.

One interesing point that Wade makes is that often times when you visit therapy, your therapsit will generally assume that you have have the pre-exiting ability to cope with the difficulties you have faced. I’m intrigued by Wade’s approach of asking how the patient responded to instances of violence or oppression rather than asling how this situations affected these individuals. He then proceeds by asking for specific beliefs, values or comments that arised from the sitatution. This sounds like a better approach than trying the evaluate the damage done and proceeding from there.

Rape Myths

In today’s society, sexual violence is  a crime that occurs far too often. Many times sexual violence also comes with attitudes that attempt to discredit it. Such attitudes are known as rape myths. The author states that rape myths are defined as “attitudes and beliefs that are generally false but are widely and persistently held, serve to deny/justify male aggression against women.”

It was shocking for me to hear that there are actually people who believe that a woman can’t claim she was raped if she does not have bruises . Mindset and attitudes such as these call for social changes. Contrary to what the author states I would like to believe that rape myth acceptances have declined amongst college students. All around the media are movements advocating for women’s rights and safety such as #metoo. Throughout the campus I’ll hear about clubs or protest that advocate for the well being of a woman so it seems to me that ideologies such as rape myths wouldn’t be accepted in atmospheres such as Hunter’s

introduction post

Hello everyone, My name is Dylan Galindo. I’m a sophomore studying economics. I enrolled in this class to fulfill requirements but also because I wanted to take another psychology class.