A single panel comic created by York University students Jane Kim, Shayna Lauer, Helén Marton to raise awareness about sexual assault and combat victim blaming.
Article from the Toronto Star about it here.
This sounds like a good campaign, and taking a different tactic to raising awareness and getting people’s attention, hopefully people get the message and don’t just laugh it off.
I know the obvious point is “it would be ridiculous if Superman was blamed because he wore tights right? So why are we blaming rape victims by what they wore?” But, I think using Superman is also really powerful, because (besides the use of him in tights to send the message about clothing) it shows that no matter how physically powerful you are, or if you’re a man, you can still be assaulted. The clothing message is the obvious one, but by using a powerful superhero icon, there’s also the messages about not victim blaming people by speculating on if they could have fought back, or inventing ways of how they could have fought back (and therefore should have) or “but you’re so much bigger than them”, “why didn’t you try to escape?”, or that you must believe somebody has to be “weak” to be a victim of sexual assault (either claiming they must have wanted it because they’re not that “weak”, or insisting that they are because they were assaulted).
And if we can believe Superman can be assaulted, then maybe we can believe the non-powered people we meet IRL when they say so too.
I wanted to share this because it’s about superheroes, feminism and using superheroes to get a really important message out.
woah
obama looking at my blog
You know what’s great about this image? It can be a reaction image… to itself.
Okay so I followed this video about foreshortening and…
Sycra. I love you so much for making this video.
Rebloging for reference oh yes
GUYGUSGUYS I AM SCREAMING RIGHT NOW NEW SONIC GAME CALLED sONIC; LOST WORLD WAS HINTED TODAY ON NINTENDO DIRECT. MY BODY HAS NEVER BEEN SO PREPARED.
I’m still waiting for gameplay and praying that this is a free-running world explorer. The 2.5D gameplay style is fun for a while, but now it’s getting stale and I’m hoping for some good old (neo-old?) fashioned 3D platforming/exploring.
Seeing how the planet has hexagons… for some reason… I’m gonna say that I’ll bet part of this game’s main mechanic is building stuff. Just a theory, but if that’s true, I like where this is going.
Just wanted to say, I’m proud of Lewis for speaking up about the ad situation for himself and all of the producers. That was needed.
and mom said i would be late for the bus
O.O
For the disturbingly high amount of people who asked, here is the definitive collection of people asking to see me naked. Now please stop asking…
Don’t just like it. Re-blog to un-sheep everyone.
I need more evidence to believe in conspiracy theories, but a bunch of other stuff seemed kind of fishy also. Like how the guy got shot in the throat and that’s why we can’t hear his testimony, or that CISPA passed during this whole distraction. The third device that they found within minutes without calling a squad or anything, in the library. I wouldn’t base it off of lack of blood or that this guy is not in shock or that he somewhat looks a little bit like that amputee guy. But I wouldn’t put it past the realm of possibility tho knowing the U.S. …aaaand now we all can get arrested for speaking our mind.
Heres another thing.
8-years ago, CHP Officer Kevin Briggs talked this young man out of jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge.
That young man’s name is Kevin Berthia.
Today he is 30 years old and married with 2 children.
This week he presented Officer Briggs with an award on behalf of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.
The story of how Officer Briggs talked Kevin down is remarkable.
As you can see in the picture, Kevin is literally one step away from jumping to his death. But for more than hour, the officer listened to Kevin pour his heart out about his troubles and told him, “I know you think things are bad, but they can get better.”
Kevin says, “Officer Briggs never made me feel guilty for the situation I was in. He made feel like, I understand why you are here, but there are alternatives”
Kevin is just one of countless lives Briggs has saved over his 23 year career.
Briggs, who was promoted to Sergeant five years ago, is humble about what he does. He says, ”they make the decision, when they step back over that rail it takes a tremendous amount of courage”
I salute Sergeant Briggs!
Photo: The San Francisco Chronicle, John Storey
