Left: "This is what I'm taught will get me raped."
Right: "This is what I'm taught will prevent rape."
This ad conveys what so many people think. Earlier in the year we read a story about a woman who was blamed for being raped because she wore a short skirt. I was so astounded at the number of people, girls and boys, that agreed and blamed the woman as well. To me, they are condoning the rape. They're saying "it's okay that he raped her because she had it coming" which is completely false. I think those people are delusional. If the girls that said that got raped while wearing a skirt, I would bet they would change their mind. No one gets up in the morning and thinks, "Gosh I hope I get raped today!" It doesn't work like that. While girls may be wearing skirts to get attention, the whole world knows she does not want rape. I think girls wear short skirts because they want to feel wanted. Rape is not wanted, that's why it is called rape and not sex. Sex is consensual and wanted by both people. Rape is a sexual act forced upon one person by another. No skirt says, "RAPE ME RAPE ME!"
On the left, the girl is wearing a high thigh skirt, and a tank top. She happens to be slightly heavy chested. Personally, skirts that are long on some girls would be short on me because I am so tall. Many girls face this problem as well. But shouldn't we be given the freedon to wear skirts without the fear of getting raped? Uhh yes, I think so! I should not have to arrange my outfits with the thought of, "Could this possibly get me raped tonight?" The fact is, you could be raped wearing jeans, a bikini, naked, in a burkah, or in a scuba diving suit. If a rapist wants to rape you, he will rape you.
On the right, the girls is wearing jeans and a sweater. As stated previously, you can still get raped wearing that! While clothing could make you an easier target it is not the only contributing factor to being raped and it is not, under any cirsumstance, the victims fault!
Our society has made it so easy to blame the victim, and people just deal with it. No one stands up for the teenage girl walking home in her cheerleading uniform after practice and getting raped because, "she should've changed". How horrible is that, that we have resorted to blaming the victim.
I once saw a saying: "Don't tell me waht to wear, tell them not to rape." How true is that.
This ad uses the colors black and white to set the tone for the message which is sad and dark. The white paper is where the attention is drawn so the focus will be on the message.
The target audience is the adult community. This ad is a message from my generation to my parents generation. It is telling them, "this is what you have taught me." I think many parents are unaware of this idea and how we feel about this. They don't realize this is the message they are sending to us. The media also send this message to us by how they portray victims on tv. The victim is always some girl with a mini skirt, cleavage showing shirt, make-up smeared, and stiletto heels on. They never show the studios girl who got raped.
This ad uses the advertising techniques Plain Folks because it shows teenagers in an average school ssending a simple message. Those teens are supposed to represent the high school age teen girl population, though a few ignorant females would disagree with what I have said in this entry.
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