Thursday, November 29, 2012

I think there are a lot of things that we learned this year that more people need to know.  From the things we learned this week, I think more people need to know how rape happens most of the time.  Before this classk, I considered rape to be when creepy guys drag you into alleys or break into your home and rape you, but I now know that that is not the case.  Although this does happen, people are raped more often by people they already know.  A lot of people don't know this, but if a guy has sex with a girl at a party who is too drunk to say yes or no or even know what is going on, it's rape.  It doesn't matter if she was kicking and screaming or not, if she didn't say yes, it's rape.  This happens way more often than the "rape script" we are so familiar with.  I think one way to spread awareness about this to girls AND guys is through television.  I don't know about everyone else, but I watch a lot of Law and Order.  And that show is why I had this scripted idea of rape in my head.  Maybe if they put more crime show episodes on tv where girls are getting raped at parties by guys they know, people would be more aware of it.  It also needs to be taught in school.  Guys also need to know that it's rape with they sleep with a girl that's too drunk to function, and girls need to know to be cautious at parties, too, not just when they're walking alone in the dark.  All in all, I think this is a very important piece of information that needs to be taught in our society.

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