Getting it Right when it Comes to Anti-Rape Campaigns

Too often campaigns that are ostensibly aimed at reducing the incidence of sexual assault come off terribly wrong. They imply that victims to are to blame because if they had just been “SMART” they could have avoided any problems. Instead of putting the onus on men not to rape, they tell women to be afraid, to limit their actions to avoid rapists even though, as Rebekah Carrow so eloquently wrote earlier this week, women already plan their everyday lives according to the rules of fear. So it was surprising to find an ad in the February issue of Go Belfast that gets it right. (I’d say pleasantly surprising, except that the need for such an ad in the first place makes such pleasure impossible.) (Read more at Gender Across Borders.)