The Focus of Sexual Violence Must Shift from Women to Men.

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A little while ago I had the chance to attend a gender-awareness forum, so I attended. A very disgraceful incident occurred at the Korea Military Academy. It was a case where a fourth-year cadet sexually assaulted a first-year cadet. The first-year cadet was heavily intoxicated at the time, and the fact that the living distance between men and women was not far also played a part. As a result, the superintendent of the Korea Military Academy has currently resigned, and the student in question is under investigation. Because of this incident, the gender-awareness forum was hastily held. While attending, I heard various stories, but the focus was generally placed not on men but on women. One elder's remark went like this: if women throw out flirtatious advances at a drinking gathering, isn't there room to interpret this, to some degree, as a gesture that they'll permit sexual harassment or sexual assault by the man? A woman elder's reply to this was as follows: just because someone flirted, it doesn't mean she'll permit that, so interpreting it that way and acting on it is the fault of the men.

The issue of sexual assault and sexual harassment is an issue across society as a whole. It happens very frequently not only in South Korea but worldwide. In Daegu a female college student was found dead after being sexually assaulted (they say a suspect has currently been caught, but it hasn't been confirmed), there are many serial murders, and this theme has been dealt with several times in films like 'Silenced (Dogani)' or 'Plaything (Norigae).' As spaces emerge where 'sex' has become a kind of means of transaction, this 'violence'—of being unable to control sexual desire and harming others and committing murder—has a harmful effect across society and reduces positive effects.
As the PR speaker Jackson Katz says, it seems this problem should no longer be attributed to women as the cause. When a sexual assault incident occurs, rather than first scrutinizing what the woman was wearing or how drunk she was, the priority is to grasp what kind of thoughts or values the man holds and with what mindset he did it, and for this, since the heads of various institutions are 'men' more than women, he points out that men who can raise their voices must speak up. This problem is men's problem. He says it's not something achieved by just one of us doing well, but that everyone must raise their voice and everyone must change little by little. Because we already know well enough what action we should take now.