Sunday, November 27, 2011

Assault Prevention

When it comes to sexual assault, victim blaming is common. According to Newman, this places nearly all the responsibility to prevent sexual assault on potential victims: women. We always see the prevention tips to avoid being assaulted, but this poster flips the responsibility to a potential assaulter.

You wouldn't believe the debate set off by this poster at its website:
http://front.moveon.org/the-most-effective-sexual-assault-prevention-plan-ever/
One person writes: "Whew! That was a close one. Being a man, I am only inches away from anonymously raping every woman that I see. Thanks liberals and feminazis from saving female kind from me."  I was quite surprised to see responses like these, as it seems the only people who should be offended are assaulters.

Newman, David. Sociology. Ed 8. 2010.

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