Furthermore, Katz points out that this terminology shifts the focus and sense of responsibility away from men, particularly the male perpetrators of the violence. Instead, a disproportionate amount of attention is placed on the female victim, and this frequently results in victim-blaming. Katz explains that “our cognitive structure is set up to blame victims. This is all unconscious. Our whole cognitive structure is set up to ask questions about women and women’s choices and what they’re doing, thinking, wearing” (Katz 2012). The phenomenon of victim-blaming and its role in the perpetuation of an issue are ideas that are also presented in Buffington, Luibheid, and Guy’s text A Global History in Sexuality: The Modern Era. In the essay “Sex and Disease from Syphilis to AIDS”, Laura J. McGough and Katherine E. Bliss discuss how socially inferior
Furthermore, Katz points out that this terminology shifts the focus and sense of responsibility away from men, particularly the male perpetrators of the violence. Instead, a disproportionate amount of attention is placed on the female victim, and this frequently results in victim-blaming. Katz explains that “our cognitive structure is set up to blame victims. This is all unconscious. Our whole cognitive structure is set up to ask questions about women and women’s choices and what they’re doing, thinking, wearing” (Katz 2012). The phenomenon of victim-blaming and its role in the perpetuation of an issue are ideas that are also presented in Buffington, Luibheid, and Guy’s text A Global History in Sexuality: The Modern Era. In the essay “Sex and Disease from Syphilis to AIDS”, Laura J. McGough and Katherine E. Bliss discuss how socially inferior