Mathilde Caille

This research project concerning issues related to sexual violence and harassment allowed each group to create a campaign completely unique. My group, composed of Stephanie, Jorane and Carlo, focused on the issue of consent. We believe the concept of consent is not understood in society due to a lack of information about it. As a result, we decided to direct our campaign to young adolescents because we strongly believe that making youth understand the concept of consent at a young age will allow them to grow into adults who understand and respect this aspect in relationships. In order to reach out to our audience, we took the decision to use the platform of video games, focusing on games mostly played by adolescents. 

As a group we came to an agreement to create a video, which we will use as advertising in the game. The player will be offered a reward in exchange to watching the video. This is an incentive to encourage teens to watch the video and be rewarded for it, and therefore eventually encouraging them to watch it again. At first, we decided to have one big video, divided into three scenarios. However, after some discussion, we realized it would be more effective if we created three separate videos, and rewarded the player for each of the video. The videos will appear at different times during the game, preventing the player from being bored by watching the same long video multiple times. Having different scenarios will have a better chance of grabbing our audience’s attention. The principle idea of our videos is to present situations where consent is not respected. However, since we are targeting young adolescents, we are not directly illustrating situations of sexual relationships. Our goal is to just present the concept of consent. To keep the videos short and light hearted, we used animals. 

Before each video, the player is asked: “Do you consent to watch this video?” and is given the choice between “Yes” and “No”. This introduces the idea of consent before the videos even start. The first situation is consent in family relationships: A mom cat forces her son to kiss his grandfather before he leaves. This situations is seen in a numerous families, and society must change the norm about it. How can children understand that they have control over their own body if we force them from a young age to give affection against their will?The second video covers the aspect that verbal consent is not enough. In this situation, we reversed the role of the dominant perpetrator and the small victim. A sheep insists on wanting the Wolf to come to the mall with it. The Wolf agrees after the sheep continually asks him or her. However, at the mall, the Wolf does not seem to be enjoying himself/herself. This portrays a situation where it is important to look at physical and emotional consent – if the person doesn’t look like it is enjoying itself, it is important to understand that that person is not consenting. Finally, the last video portrays the idea of consent for every step. An older experienced rabbit invites a younger rabbit to go to a movie. Arriving at the cinema, the older rabbit insists on going to see a horror movie. However, the young rabbit does not feel comfortable seeing that. This scenario tries to illustrates situations where experienced people might want to do something the partner doesn’t feel comfortable to try. In these situations, it is important to have consent through every step of the way. Also, the choice of using two rabbits was to include the idea of same sex couples. After each video, a sentence is presented: “You were able to consent to watch this video. You have the right to say No in any situations.” We thought this would influence the player to always remember to ask for consent, just like we did or to remind the player he has the right to say no at any time.

Our campaign was inspired by the videos made by Concordia Sexual Assault Resource Centre watched in class. They used fruits to lighten up the subject, not determine sexes, make it more funny, and most importantly inform people on consent. This is exactly what we were trying to achieve with our animals. We did not need much research for our campaign because it was a video that needed a lot more of our imagination than any facts or information.

The creation of this campaign presented some difficulties such as missing a group member, disagreeing on certain points, and having to create scenarios that demanded a lot of imagination and creativity. However, we still managed to create an original project in a short period of time. I believe this campaign would be successful because it is a fun way of presenting the idea of consent. The fact that we reward the viewer makes the activity a positive experience and therefore makes the player more likely to remember it and share it. The use of animals makes the subject seem less intense and gives each adolescents a different way to analyze it. Our videos are short and relate to situations that happen often which gives it more chances of being successful. 

To finish off, I really loved being part of this project. I have learnt a lot of facts and information listening to other team’s presentations. This project really allowed me to participate for cause a cause that I am passionate about.  

The picture above is one of the two posters my group and I have created. Our idea was to foccus on raising awareness on men who are victims of sexual assault. The reason is that most often victims of sexual assault are usually women , but it does happen to men as well. When you google campaigns of sexual assault it is mostly for women victims. There was only one campaign on google images, the ‘no more’ campaign that my group and I thought was good and recognized men as the victims. You really need to do a whole search to find good campaigns about male victims.

Making posters does not coast a lot of money and could be very effective if they are put in the right place. Putting them in colleges and universities would be a good idea because college students are 5xs more at risk of sexual abuse. A poster that is posted in many different places is bound to catch your eye at some point. Our second poster is written “Men are victims too” and all around it there are vibrant post-its with stats about male victims. The Colors would most likely attract your eye, and the poster above is also eye catching as it is not something you would typically see. Another reason we think it is effective is just because it is different. There is also the hashtag on one of our posters so it could eventually have became a trending hashtag on twitter. The reason we focused on posters is because sometimes things on social media are left unseen or just skipped over, it really takes a lot of people to share something before it is seen by a great amount of people. Also if you are not searching for a topic in particular it hard to just stumble upon something.

The explanation behind this poster is that it is based on the #thisisnotconsent and is changed to #thesearen’tconsent because campaigns rarely include male victims. The women’s underwear were held up in court and a justification to why she got raped. It is absolutely disgusting to blame a women for the type of underwear she wears. Females are often blamed for the clothes they are wearing. Men that are victims are not blamed for simply wearing a t-shirt and jeans, neither for wearing a pair of Calvin Kleins. A person that is a victim is not to blame, the assaulter is to blame regardless of the situation. Men and women are not treated the same even when it comes to such a sensitive topic. A men is expected to shut his mouth and be tough, our campaign has the shocking statistic of 1 in 6 males are victims of sexual assault, when people are aware of the situation more can be done. We find that it is important for male victims to speak out as well.

The reason stats are so low is because many guys will never tell their stories, just like women. With the fact that men always have to put on a brave face they do not speak out. They do not want to be seen as anything other then manly, but things need to change. Our society as a whole needs to start realizing that men aernt as tough as they portray themselves to be. And it is okay for them to have feelings and show emotions. Most importantly men need to speak out. And they need to feel safe enough to speak out.

This experience was very eye opening and made me realise that I wasn’t really educated fully about this issue, in today’s society there are many horror stories concerning this topic, girls can’t even walk the street at night without feeling threatened. It was nice to be a part of this and create our own campaign it was very interesting in getting to be educated about such a large issue and a contemporary issue.

References

https://www.rainn.org/statistics/victims-sexual-violence

https://1in6.org/get-information/the-1-in-6-statistic/

https://slate.com/human-interest/2014/04/male-rape-in-america-a-new-study-reveals-that-men-are-sexually-assaulted-almost-as-often-as-women.html

https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/14/europe/ireland-underwear-rape-acquittal-scli-intl/index.html

Kelly Graham-Wieferig

The goal of our project and our idea was to raise more awareness on men who are victims of sexual assault. Our group thinks this is very important because there is a lot of underrepresentation for men. Most victims of sexual abuse are women but it happens to men too. We believe that men should be able to talk about this topic without fear. 

We used posters for our campaign as it is low cost, they are easy to make and if they would be posted everywhere people would really get impacted by them. Once you see things many times they start to stick in your mind and we would like to have that same effect with these posters. On one of our posters we had the #thisisnotconsent movement but we put our own twist on it. We added a pair of men’s Calvin Klein underwear as well. We also changed the hashtag to #thesearenotconsent. 

Our second poster consisted of “Men are victims too” and then we added a bunch of post it notes to the boarder of it in bright colors. On these post it’s we put a bunch of different statistics. These statistics were based around men and they also had some more general statistic as well. 

We think that our posters, if made in bulk, would be very effective and hopefully the message would get sent out. Hopefully people would be more aware of these things because they do happen and we should not be blind to it. 

I think this would be successful especially if we put them up in schools and in the public. I believe the message would really be brought out and people would open their eyes more. If these posters are all put up in various different locations it would be even better. Eventually people who see these are going to stop and look and maybe think twice about this very sensitive topic. 

I really enjoyed doing this project and I think it made me really rethink a lot of things and I feel like it not only opened my eyes but also opened everyone’s eyes to it. It was really interesting and fun to basically get to create our own type of campaign.l 

#MeTooK12 is a nonprofit organization to stop sexual assault in school. It wants victims of sexual assault and harassment by peers and school staff to open up and speak out about their experiences while they attend K-12.  It encourages the people the victim surrounds him or herself with to share how it effects students negatively 

RAINN is the nation’s largest anti-sexual violence organization. They have a helpline that is 24/7, it is free and confidential. Rainn allows people to come together and to share their stores and be in a safe environment. Rainn gives tips to be able to talk to others about sexual assault. Their goals are to help survivors, to educate the public, to improve public policy and to consult and train people. 

            The topic that my group wanted to discuss was men being victims of sexual assault and sexual abuse. We had the idea to take women based campaigns and organizations and flip them to get men represented as well. We would like to use the #thisisnotconsent movement and flip it. #thisisnotconsent movement is a movement that holds a pair of women’s underwear that was used in court against a girl. This girl was a victim of sexual assault in Ireland and they blamed her because she was wearing a thong. 

We found that 1 in 6 men will experience a form of sexual violence in their lifetimes.

There is also a organization called 1 in 6 that really go in depth with sexual assault and really explains it in depth. 

We wanted to focus on that sexual abuse happens to anyone and while it usually is men who are the perpetrator it can also be women. Our group wants to push the message then men don’t have to hide their past and they don’t need to be scared to speak up about it just because men need to b

In the scope of this project to research and develop a campaign against sexual assault on university campuses, we first looked to identify an existing lack of resources or awareness addressing a specific topic within the broad subject of sexual violence. I  found this niche in the sexual misconduct perpetrated by professors towards students, an issue that has gained widespread attention in Montreal as the aftershocks of the #MeToo movement spread to all spheres of society. According to one McGill student’s account, “rumours of predatory professors are prevalent” (Harvey, 2018, para. 2), and yet instances of concrete action and consequences are rare to non-existent. According to this same account, advice on which faculty members to be on guard around are passed between friends, knowledge which would be relevant to disseminate at a wider level.

The clear need for clarification in the sexual violence policies of educational institutions is evidenced in the December 2017 decision of the provincial legislature to pass a law countering sexual violence on campuses, mandating that establishments draft and implement comprehensive sexual violence policies (Harris, 2019, para. 3). Many schools, including McGill, missed the deadline set forth by the government, demonstrating a clear lack of organization. Meanwhile, students have been lodging complaints for years about teachers’ inappropriate behaviours, but administrative barriers discouraged most of them from fully pursuing their cases.

Once our group picked the issue we wanted to address, which we broadly labelled as faculty abuse of power and predatory behaviour, the question evolved into which method we could best employ to combat these behaviours and raise awareness about these problems. The simplest but often most effective medium we first landed on was a poster campaign that could outline different scenarios that are inappropriate in academic contexts, such as a professor inviting an individual student out for drinks to discuss an assignment, asking a student to visit their personal residence to pick up work, or inappropriate comments about a student’s appearance. The goal would be to clearly illustrate what kinds of behaviour cross the line between what is acceptable and what shouldn’t be, and ultimately help to de-normalize these behaviours in academic contexts. However, from this evolved the idea to implement a kind of social media forum where students could share tips and tricks on which teachers to avoid based on their personal experiences; I imagined a website akin to a hybrid between Rate My Professors, where students leave ratings on the quality of teachers, their methods of assigning work, grading, and overall difficulty, and the social media site Reddit, where users create anonymous profiles and engage in discussions about a wide variety of topics on subject-specific “subreddits”. Basically, students could create an anonymous user profile using a school email, in order to verify the legitimacy of their comments, which would be hidden from other users. Each department could then have its own sub-forum where students could leave comments on the behaviour of teachers in those departments like on Rate My Professors, only their comments would focus on whether the teachers made inappropriate comments or made advances that made students uncomfortable. Teachers would have an overall “danger” rating, just like profiles on Rate My Professors, and students could use this as a general warning and guide to avoiding or handling interactions with these individuals.

I think that such a forum could potentially be extremely effective in combatting teacher abuse of power and predatory practices. First of all, a collective record of incidents would help detect patterns of misconduct and alert students and administration to potential danger. Students would also be able to share their knowledge more easily and with a wider audience, so people would not be dependent on having a friend with a prior personal experience to be warned about teachers’ behaviours. Finally, this site would open up the possibility of collaborative action to file official reports against assaulters. Students who notice stories of harassment or assault similar to their own would be able to private message users who post their stories and invite them to work together in real life to officially denounce a teacher’s misconduct. Moreover, the online format would make this service very accessible to students and facilitate genuine support and discussion through the protective veil of anonymous interaction.

Bibliography

Harris, Collin. “McGill, UQAM miss province’s deadline to update sexual violence      policies.” CBC News, 11 January 2019, https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/mcgill-uqam-sexual-assault-policy-1.4974423

Harvey, Alexandra. “McGill fails to protect against sexually abusive professors, students say.” Maclean’s, 18 April 2018, https://www.macleans.ca/education/mcgill-fails-to-protect-students-from-sexually-abusive-professors-students-say/

The goal of our campaign is to generally raise awareness about sexual violence on campus, targeting students, teachers, staff members, visitors and so on, whether they are bystanders or survivors. We think it’s important because often people are reluctant to talk about these issues, and it’s a big problem. We also strongly believe that campuses should be an environment where people feel free, safe and comfortable.

We chose posters because they are practical to put around the school and people would be forced to see them. We believe that if it was something online, like a video or website, it would not stay relevant for long or go noticed by a lot of people. Online, we see what we want to see, and when we do see something, we talk about it and then forget about it.

On our posters, we wanted to state a powerful message – one that is simple, yet striking, We wanted to make it very personal to whomever would read our posters by saying “chances are this is someone you’ve sat next to”. We included quotes on our example poster:

“One in five women experience sexual assault while attending a post-secondary institution.” via cfsontario.ca

“[…] 44 per cent of female identified students experienced some form of sexual violence or unwanted touching while attending the institution […] only ten students had reported an assault.” via cfsontario.ca

“More than 80 per cent of rapes that occur on college and university campuses are committed by someone known to the victim […]” via cfsontario.ca

We would consider using different quotes as well that include male survivors of sexual assault. I found that says “one in 16 men are sexually assaulted while in college.” (nsvrc.org). We would also consider putting only one quote per poster, and making different posters so that people wouldn’t ignore them every time assuming it was the same poster. Different quotes would instead reinforce the same subject matter several times to stress its importance.

We also wanted to include a realistic situation that we see every day, which is people walking in the halls looking down on their phones while being oblivious to everything happening around them. This is where the idea of what we wrote on our poster, “look up, someone might need your help”, came from. We used an image depicting five genderless people, of which one of them was in distress on the floor while the others are having conversations or just walking around without noticing. The idea of them being genderless is very important because the genders of both the victims and bystanders should not matter. Anyone can be a victim, and any bystander should actively try and help.

We think our posters would essentially serve as also an advertisement on where to get help from. We would include resources at the bottom. Survivors would be reassured that they are indeed not alone and there are resources to help them, and bystanders could realize that there are ways they themselves can help out victims – whether it is just recognizing that they are survivors or actually going to get them help.

The resources we would include at the bottom would be a link to Quebec Crisis Centres and information and where to go, who to call and how to get help. The specific link we wanted to use is from the Canadian Association of Sexual Assault Centres (casac.ca/node/52).

I think that our idea would be pretty successful in its goal considering we would want to put a lot all over the school, in places where a lot of people walk by and in places where people are pretty much forced to look at it (hallways, bathroom stalls, stairs, lockers, cafeteria, classroom doors, windows, etc). I also think our goal is pretty realistic because it’s a small approach to reducing sexual violence: raising awareness about it. We are asking people to just realize this is an issue and that they should help others. Opening your eyes and realizing people need your help, or that people are in the same situation as you, and also familiarizing yourself with Crisis Centres is not asking for much. It barely requires any extra time or energy. Simply put, the posters are basically just informing you about an idea and asking you to just be nice and helpful – a basic human expectation.

Overall, I think this was a very interesting and insightful project. It made me realize just how much our opinions matter when it comes to making change in the world, and how valued our input is. It was also a nice challenge trying to think of a campaign that we thought would be successful, and it was fun doing research and brainstorming with other people.

References:

Home

Click to access publications_nsvrc_factsheet_media-packet_statistics-about-sexual-violence_0.pdf

http://www.casac.ca/node/52

https://www.quebec.ca/en/family-and-support-for-individuals/assistance-and-support/help-and-resources-for-sexual-assault-victims-and-sexual-assailants/community-organizations-that-help-victims-of-sexual-assault/

http://www.energizeinc.com

For this group project we have decided to focus on raising awareness about the subject of sexual assault, specifically in post secondary institutions, like Vanier. The majority of sexual assault victims are under the age of 30, 54% are between the age of 18-34 years old, which is the group age of cegeps and universities’ students. According to the Canadian Federation of Students in Ontario, one in five women experience sexual assault while attending a post-secondary institution. A lot of people, including myself before this project, are not aware of the statistics being this high. We want to raise awareness and make people realize that sexual assault does happen everywhere. We wish to encourage everyone that is present on the campus, staff, students and even visitors, to report if they ever are victims of this kind of abuse or seen something that they should report. We want to do that by placing posters in strategic places around the campus with shocking statistics and catching phrases that would grab people’s attention and make them reflect on the matter. Out of a 1000 sexual assaults, only 33 are reported which is an extremely low number. Our goal is to start educating on the subject and give available resources for them on campus, so people start reporting any kind of sexual assault that they have seen or been victim of with time encourage and help build a consent culture on campus.

http://sacha.ca/resources/statistics

Click to access Factsheet-SexualAssault.pdf

Jessica Eisenbacher

My group and I focused on the issue of consent, but consent and clothing. Our main message is that clothing is not consent, and that no matter how revealing one’s clothes may be, it is no excuse for someone to sexually assault someone else. We did some research in order to find more information on the issue that we were working on, and so that in our pitch we would have statistics to show everyone how important the issue we chose is. 

The information that we gathered throughout our research really helped amplify the importance of consent in relation to clothing, and led us to choose the issue and message that we talked about during our pitch. We provided a few examples of times when clothing was the cause of sexual assault. For example, A police officer in 2011 said, “Women should avoid dressing like sluts in order not to be victimized” (Lubitz, 2016). This research really allowed to show that this happens more often that it should, and how important it is to talk about it and change it. Another really important part of our research was when we read that a study showed that 55% and 41% of women believe that if a woman is wearing more revealing clothing she is more likely to get sexually assaulted (Oppenheim, 2019). Many people still believe that the clothes someone wears are a part of the reason they get assaulted, which shouldn’t be the case. The main reason we chose the issue of clothing in relation to consent was because of the Ireland rape trial of a 17-year-old girl and a 27-year-old man, where she was forced to hold up her lacy thong in front of the court. The defense believed that because she was wearing this, that it was consent for sex, but it was not (George, 2018). The #ThisIsNotConsent movement became so talked about and so important for everyone. As a group, we believe that clothing isn’t consent, and especially because of this trial, we wanted to focus on the subject more. Another survey showed that more than a quarter of people think that women are at least a little responsible for their sexual assault if they are wearing revealing clothing (Grant, 2015). So many people strongly still believe that clothing is consent, and that wearing more revealing clothing can lead to sexual assault, which shouldn’t be the case, and that’s why my group chose to focus on these research findings and this issue; clothing is not consent. 

My experience of the creative and collaborative processes with my group was really good. Talking as a whole class, giving each other feedback, working with professionals, and working as a group on such an important topic was a really good experience. The fact that we were in group really allowed us to put all our minds together and work as a team, which also went really well. It allowed us to brainstorm and come up with ideas as a group, which often works better than being alone. Reflecting upon the campaigns that we had to research was extremely useful when it came to coming up with an issue along with a main message, and an idea of our own. Working on posters, drawing and writing things out as a group was really enjoyable. We got the chance to work on something together, that could potentially become a real thing. We also got to discuss something so important, that you don’t hear about every day, that really brought light to my eyes. Our idea was a video showing what you should and shouldn’t do when you see a girl wearing revealing clothing. Throughout the two classes that we worked on this, it really allowed me to open my mind and explore creativity on a topic that should be way more talked about.

I think that the piece that we came up with would be successful because I think it would grab many people’s attention. Our idea was to create a video showcasing the idea of consent and clothing, and what is appropriate and what isn’t appropriate; how catcalling or touching a girl wearing revealing clothing is wrong. We would try to get it up on Omnivox, and then throughout other social medias for everyone to see. I believe that our idea would be a great success because it would be easily accessible for everyone to see and spread around to get out message across. It would raise more awareness on the topic of consent and clothing and more people, especially around school and the internet, would realize how important this subject is. It could teach people something knew, like young kids or people who don’t really know about consent. It would also be a success because the video would hit the emotions of viewers for them to realize how serious and common this is, in hopes that they would share the video for others to see it as well. 

References 

George, K. (2018). Irish Women’s “This Is Not Consent” tweets protest the shocking way this      rape trial was decided.Retrieved from Bustle https://www.bustle.com/p/irish-womens-       this-is-not-consent-tweets-protest-the-shocking-way-this-rape-trial-was-decided-     13147976

Grant, K. (2015). This Doesn’t Mean Yes campaign: Tackling the insidious myth of women           “asking for it” through clothing or behaviour. Retrieved from Independent    https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/love-sex/this-doesn-t-mean-yes-campaign-            tackling-the-insidious-myth-of-women-asking-for-it-through-clothing-10189074.html

Lubitz, R.  (2016).  Here are 9 times clothing was blamed for sexual assault – rather than the        obvious.  Retrieved from Mic Network Inc: https://mic.com/articles/141781/here-are-9-          times-clothing-was-blamed-for-sexual-assault-rather-than-the-obvious#.BbLK9znS2.

Oppenheim, M.  (2019).  Majority of men believe women more likely to be sexually assaulted if      wearing revealing clothes, study suggests.  Retrieved from        Independent: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/men-sexual-assault-       clothes-women-victim-blaming-rape-a8792591.html.

In order to complete this project, my group did research in order to find statistics and information that we hoped would provoke thought in those to whom we were pitching our idea.  Our research campaign had to do with clothing and sexual violence; that is, the message we were trying to communicate was that sexual violence should never be excused as a result of revealing clothing, and that clothing and sexual assault have nothing to do with one another.   

The statistics and information that we found and made our audience aware of during our pitch were used to prove that the topic is of importance because many people actually do believe that clothing is at least somewhat responsible for incidents involving sexual violence.  We wanted our audience to see the extent of the issue that is still prevalent in today’s world.  The first statistic we found was that a striking 55% of men and 41% of women in the United Kingdom believe that the more revealing the clothing a woman is wearing, the more likely she is to experience a form of sexual violence (Oppenheim, 2019).  Furthermore, we found many incidents which involved politics.  One of these examples featured a Manitoba case in 2006 in which a 26-year-old rapist was let free because the judge accepted the argument that the young woman who was raped was wearing makeup, a tube top, and high heels.  It is extremely alarming that clothing is being used as a justification for rape, especially in today’s era (Lubitz, 2016).  Moreover, in 2011, an Indonesian governor commented on the rape and murder of a young woman who was attacked on public transportation.  He implied that the rape of this woman should be somewhat excused because if someone in a mini skirt sat next to him on public transportation, he would get turned on.  The main goal of using these statistics was to confirm to our audience that the belief that clothing is a factor in sexual violence is very much prevalent, and we also wanted to reinforce that this issue even affects politics. 

Collaborating with the members of my team in order to come up with these ideas and research statistics was a great experience.  I enjoyed working as part of a team and having the help of professionals in the process.  It was a lot easier to brainstorm with three minds instead of just one, as we would all come up with ideas and slowly put them together, leading us to a collaborative project.  After finding these statistics and brainstorming, we came up with an idea for our campaign as a video.  This video would consist of four different scenes; in the first scene, a young woman would be walking in a downtown setting wearing clothes that cover her whole body, and the male bystanders would let her be.  In the second scene, the same woman would walk through the same setting wearing more revealing clothes this time, and the male bystanders would harass her through cat-calling and unwanted touching.  The third scene would include the statistics and pieces of information that we found in our research so as to provoke sentiments in our viewers, like we did with to our audience during the pitch. In the fourth scene, the same woman would be walking through the same setting with revealing clothing once again; however, this time, the men would behave the right way, which is the way they behaved in the first scene: they would not bother the young woman.  

 I believe that this piece would be successful as it is comprehensible to all ages, including young boys who are not quite sure what consent is at this point in their lives.  Our goal would be to get our campaign video broadcasted on Omnivox so that all students could undoubtedly come by it at some point or another.  I believe that because the whole school would have easy access to it, the video would quickly spread on social media and could become a great success.  It is certain that since all the students would have access to this, some of their younger siblings might see it too, and this could be very educational for young boys because it would teach them the message that clothing is not consent in a way that is comprehensible for them; this would help in teaching future generations what consent is not and could hopefully realistically lead to less incidents of sexual violence.  Additionally, its success would have much to do with the fact that the video will expose its viewers to statistics and real-life examples in order to pray on their emotions and lead them to take the video seriously and share it with others. 

References 

Lubitz, R.  (2016).  Here are 9 times clothing was blamed for sexual assault – rather than the obvious.  Retrieved from Mic Network Inc: https://mic.com/articles/141781/here-are-9-times-clothing-was-blamed-for-sexual-assault-rather-than-the-obvious#.BbLK9znS2.   

Oppenheim, M.  (2019).  Majority of men believe women more likely to be sexually assaulted if wearing revealing clothes, study suggests.  Retrieved from Independent: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/men-sexual-assault-clothes-women-victim-blaming-rape-a8792591.html.   

Sophie Labelle is a transgender while also working as a cartoonist with an inspiring goal to let her readers know in her comics the deep impacts that will make people understand more of the lgbtq community as who they are rather than to let the media or other people make baseless opinions that they would have against the lgbtq people.     

Furthermore, in her presentation she mentions a lot in despite being a transgender that she is not gay and wants to make people clear on the differences between being openly gay and a transgender. Moreover, she argues on the unfairness by assigning her birth as a male when she strongly believes gender to be a social construct and to be label as something she truly does not feel she belongs in the masculine category.  

Nevertheless, in order to spread her message to be understood by others she wrote many stories and online comics that she posted on her own web about her own experiences as a transgender. Also the misconception that the world has on the lgbtq to be shown to her readers, and other people going to the same phase as her to be open and accepting on transgender and queers.

I think in my opinion, that it is true that many people still do not have a good understanding on transgender, and the whole lgbtq community probably because we are living in a society that goes through a rapid change every year; and there is always something new that we do not know them. Moreover, current situations that is happening or new rules that has been past down or even the transgender having to be murder by people who simply detest them just for who they are. Which is a problem in our lack of understanding on the lgbtq and Sophie’s presentation.