12/6

Today we listened to four presentations

First was Lateah went first, she is planning on doing something physical, maybe even something like a flash mob..something that people can see. She designed a dance/flash mob of ~20+ people with a recording playing of the statistics of rape and while that is being said, the people would act out what the statistic was saying. Everyone would be wearing all black. At the end, everyone would line up domino style, it would snake around the mall/cub area, the first person would represent a rape victim and everyone would trust fall backwards to show how rape effects someone for the rest of their life. Somebody would be wearing a help shirt and would push the people back up to demonstrate that help is available. Then everyone would strip down to their undies with #stillnotanexcuse written on them. With this being video taped it could show the viral media culture happening and be able to be played over again for social media.

Next was Jackson, he made a handout titled "feminism can end rape culture" by Men for Social Change, under the women resource center. It is about the toxic masculinity and ending patriarchy. The handout includes an outline with important points. Their short term goal is a presentation for fraternities to talk to the men who are statistically more inclined to be the rapists, and what leads to those kinds of actions. It is important to tell men that it's not important to be dominant and powerful over women. The idea of patriarchy leads to rape culture "power, sports, get the woman, etc." You don't have to be what society tells you to be, you can be a man while also enjoying things that aren't "manly". What non-masculine things do you do? By making a list of all these things that men do that are non-masculine more men will see that they don't have to be a true man. By showing them it's okay to be like this, hopefully rape culture will slow down with men feeling like they need to be so masculine going away.

Then Mikah and Jace went, they made a pamphlet to hand out to college men specifically. It has a bunch of resources listed, what to do if you are the victim or know a victim, statistics, and a website related to it. It is something that could be handed out at Women's Resource Center. Their website listed is known as The Voice Project which is loaded with statistics, what rape is, Title IX information, videos, more resources. The video was very empowering and would help a lot of audience. There is also a take action page that gives awareness and tells victims the steps they can take and what they should do. It also has WSU safety tips and things that the campus can do if you feel uncomfortable or find yourself in a bad situation like this.

Last was John, he created a website that basically does what Jackson does but in a website form. On the website there would be things like the box exercise, and talking about the importance of empowering women instead of following typical masculinity roles. Would try and get the word of the website out through classes. Maybe even using something like clickbait could be an idea to get resource out to wide audience.