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.

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[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

It's a very low-traffic area of the university where not many students go, and I was sort of figuring that at least it wasn't a new campaign that I was going to have to start doing something about in all the toilets. But yes, that nobody'd taken it down before, that's fairly shit.