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redheadedfemme ([personal profile] redheadedfemme) wrote2013-03-24 11:53 am

A Needed Response

This video is great, but it's infuriating that it actually had to be made.




If nothing else, Steubenville has taught us that too many young people today don't know the meaning of respect and consent. Teaching those things should be mandatory in all high schools. 

[identity profile] hitchhiker.livejournal.com 2013-03-24 11:19 pm (UTC)(link)
emily hauser had an excellent quote about this on twitter: "How is it that we have as a society have accepted the notion that you can be a good guy who happens to have raped someone?"

this is really good (and really shocking) too, if you haven't read it: http://accidentaldevotional.com/2013/03/19/the-day-i-taught-how-not-to-rape/