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| Structural abuse is any form of pressure, harassment, and violence - emotional, mental, sexual or physical - that an individual faces under a system or authority. | Structural abuse is any form of pressure, harassment, and violence - emotional, mental, sexual or physical - that an individual faces under a system or authority. | ||
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Structural abuse is any form of pressure, harassment, and violence - emotional, mental, sexual or physical - that an individual faces under a system or authority.
Structural abuse is of many kinds. Individuals face harassment, pressure, and violence from authorities every single day - at educational institutions, at the workplace, and at home. When we say 'structure', we are referring to a social system. Any kind of violence and harassment from authorities or people who hold power over others - directly or indirectly - amounts to a specific, systematic form of abuse.
THE TERMS
What kind of behaviour constitutes structural abuse?
- Women being harassed to succumb to certain social norms
- Children being humiliated emotionally, mentally and physically in schools by authority and teachers
- Children being beaten to death in schools
- College students, adolescents being pressurized into taking careers that they do not want to
- Imposition of a political or intellectual school of thought through an institution
- Women (and men) being forced to marry against their will
- Women (and men) being forced, or even pressurized into sex in their relationships
- Women being forced, and pressurized into pregnancy, or to conceive
- Any kind of moral policing
- All kinds of gender violence: be it on heterosexual men, homosexuals, transsexuals or heterosexual women
- Women being psychologically and emotionally harassed at the workplace
- Junior employees being harassed at the workplace
- Creating disadvantage for an individual/s on the basis of stereotype, bias or prejudice
- Children being pressurized and harassed to live up to certain expectations by parents at home
- Senior citizens being thrown out of the family, neglected, humiliated, or marginalized at home
- Women being marginalized from property or denied equal financial rights
- Minorities or members of any community (religious, linguistic) discriminated or violated against, by the government, police, an institution or another individual/s
- Couples harassed in public spaces
- Sexual harassment from bosses, teachers, or officials
- Discrimination or harassment against an individual from peers or other members of a particular social setting
Structural abuse can mean ANY kind of violence that an individual has faced from an authority. Do not blame yourself if you are violated: the problem is not with you, it is with them. When the last word is with the authority, most individuals are afraid to complain, or even speak - it's not easy to face the consequences of losing a job or a seat.