Rape jokes, poster

[slemslempike]

Further to Ellie Levenson's blanket approval of rape jokes, I really like this post by fugitivus about rape jokes. It's from a month or so ago, and I'm afraid I forget where I saw it being linked.

The other day at university I took this poster down from the women's toilet:



The smaller text says "text DRINK" to the NHS number. I discovered while googling for that that it's from 2006, which makes me feel slightly better, though I don't know why.

It makes me absolutely furious, this kind of victim-blaming shit, done under the guise of "we're helping women to protect themselves". Even if the problem were women's behaviour, this kind of campiagn doesn't change their behaviour, it just makes them feel that they are guilty if something does happen.

Comments

[notmarcie.livejournal.com]

I mught make my own poster campaign. 100% of rapes happen when the rapist choses to rape somebody.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

Hmm. That doesn't really fit with the core theme of making women responsible for what happens to them. Next you'll be pointing out that there might be a correlation bewteen the perpetrator's alcohol consumption and rape!