(tw: rape)

espill:

emberfine:

I’m mostly behind this, but I can’t help but want to yell WELL LET’S JUST GIVE YOU ALL COOKIES, THEN.  It’s just sad to me that we need ad campaigns like this to tell men how to be decent human beings (and then the Nice Guys jump in and want to be recognized and rewarded for behavior that should simply be the norm).

^^ yep, yep.

I kind of agree, but I think that it needs to start here. Having a campaign that says “always know your route home” or “don’t get in a taxi alone” is victim blaming and unproductive. The only way we’re going to have successful rape prevention campaigns is if we change the perception of what rape actually is (ie. not always a drunk girl getting pulled into an alleyway by a stranger) and how it’s not solely up to girls to ‘make sure they don’t get raped’. 

Society doesn’t tell guys that if a girl is drunk, maybe don’t try and sleep with her. It doesn’t tell guys that the girls walking home after a night out probably doesn’t find cat calling attractive but actually quite scary.

It’s fucking irritating to give guys props for being decent, but with these kinds of campaigns there’s not a great lot of alternative. Although, this campaign is pretty great: