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Originally posted by B'Day
So? If it takes years , better than constantly treating women like they are provoking it.
Loads of things. For instance, how does the media teach people not to do drugs? For starters: movies. (Requiem for a Dream put me off it for life). Advertisement: maybe highlighting how many years maximum a rapist will get in prison. Maybe talk about the impact of CCTV. Discuss how rapists get treated in prison.
Soaps: British soap EastEnders did a rape storyline and we (British viewers) saw how much rape damaged the victim.
Education system -- this is more hard because the system doesn't even teach much about basic stuff such as racism, homophobia, transphobia but heck, put that in sociology. Maybe psychology students can do case studies.
Most of these aren't good ideas but it's MUCH better than making girls like me feel restricted in life.
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I think they are good ideas. They will help to reduce and raise awareness or rape, but here is the problem:
Rape will still happen.
It will take years, probably decades to eliminate rape completely from a society. So what should people do in the mean-time to protect themselves?
If you don't have an alarm in your house, then someone comes in the night and breaks in and steals a bunch of your stuff, people will say "It would have helped to have an alarm", and that is 100% TRUE. Obviously the burglar is still the one FULLY to blame, but you have to face up to the fact that there are a few twisted people out there who do go around robbing people's houses, and it's best to take precautions.
Yeah, we have to educate people that it's wrong to steal off other people (we do that already, and we could do more of it), but at the same time you have to accept reality and realise people might still try and steal off you at some point in your life. If you suggest to someone to install alarms in their house, you're not blaming them for being burgled, you're trying to help them to prevent the chance of them being burgled.