Simple Safety Tips For Ladies Analysis

Harding’s second chapter Simple Safety Tips for Ladies starts off with an incident that occurred to her and her friend Molly where she forgot that she wasn’t going to be able to drive her back home at night after one of their usual get together. This part utilizes the first five pages of the chapter. When realizing this mistake Harding’s mind went on to question how her friend was going to get back home safely and tips on how to prevent rape. She went over the various tips she noticed in an email she received earlier in the year and then other tips told to her by others. It allows for the audience to question if this is a matter that only she faces or every other person as well, when having a friend leave or leaving themselves at a later time.
Another subject Harding introduces into this chapter
It questions the part that men and younger boys take in the discussion of rape. She discusses how men are almost always erased from the conversation when it comes to rape and how it’s always about how the women could have not gotten raped. The crimes seem as if they don’t have a perpetrator. People would be quick to believe that a woman made all the info up and not that the rapist did anything wrong. She goes on to talk about the destiny of all boys and how “every American boy is at risk of growing up to become a rapist.” She writes that the things we are teaching kids right now can be misconstrued into other things that can make it seem as if we’re grouping people. We teach them to take certain types of clothing and group them as well. In class we discussed there being a time and a place for certain clothing and that's what they’re being taught, but who is it that determines what time and place is for each clothing? Harding suggests we find a better way to discuss certain topics with adolescents that would change their perspectives on how we see topics like