Do you actually believe that there is only "rapists" and "good people" in this world? Because no, there are indeed lots of stupid teenagers out there who genuinely do not understand how to talk to people. This poster is not just about straight up rape but also about unsolicited saying of weird shit, or non-consensual hugging and things of that nature.

No this poster alone wont change anything, but if kids are primed for awareness to these issues (from lessons, events or experiences) this poster might just remind someone of those things they learned.

Either way it doesnt hurt anyone...

Most rape occurs by accident by people who don't understand consent. People just like to treat it like it's all violent because they are afraid of accepting that they are both capable of rape and have likely committed it at some point in their life because they were never taught about consent and were raised in a culture that teaches them to ignore the concept of consent

All unconsensual sex is rape, but not all people who have raped intended to rape. This is extremely important to understand and this is why it is extremely important to teach people about consent.

it is extremely sad but some people just dont know

because they are extremely sheltered due to their parents who dont think theyre "old enough" to learn about sex and consent

this is why its in a college

because in college you dont have mum and dad over your shoulder deciding what you can and cant see

Yeah there really are such people.

The whole mass of humanity is mostly doing whatever feels kind of normal most of the time and not thinking about it.

Countering the momentum of “holy shit I really want to be fucking right now I am so hot for this” takes a LOT of work.

If you can make “I changed my mind and I don’t want to get fucked after all” a thing then you need to seed that idea (stop fucking) as a normal thing that people just do when it feels right, in advance, firmly in the mind of insecure young people who never had any deep thought about sex at all before.

If you're going to choose food to illustrate a point, Tacos and Fries are pretty good choices! Who wouldn't listen to a delicious taco??

It's a shitposting comm, but you asked a serious question which deserves an answer.

Trigger warning: it's about rape, and I mention some pretty specific examples coming from reality. Honestly, I hope this doesn't keep me up tonight.

To start, I think it's important to look at how and why rape happens. In most cases, rape is a matter of the perpetrator asserting dominance over the victim. There are many non-sexual as well as sexual ways of doing that. Rape is one of, if not the most intimate way. It's the reason why there are cases where heterosexual men rape other men, for instance. It's not about attraction. It's about asserting dominance, in one of the most disgusting ways imaginable.

Rape is rarely the "someone jumped out of the bush and raped me" story. In the vast majority of cases, it's someone they know. A friend. A significant other. A family member. And it's not necessarily the "I was forced into the bed" story, either. It's often a direct pressuring of the victim into doing something they really don't. "Why not, do you think I'm ugly?" "It's been so long, how are you so insensitive?" "You never want to! How is our relationship supposed to survive?" (By the way, these examples come from reality - not word by word, but the statements as wholes.) It's often part of a larger pattern of abuse - and I mean think about it, if you're doing something that heinous, it's probably not the only morally reprehensible thing you're doing.

So honestly, I'm going to go with a pretty clear "no". I mean, do we have signs telling people not to steal? Do we have signs to tell people not to kill? No. The closest thing we have to that is signs at stores that essentially say "you can't steal here without getting caught". It's never about "watch out, you might accidentally steal something, here's how not to do it". And think about it this way: these "don't rape" campaigns have been around for a while now. I have yet to see any evidence that they actually do any good.

In fact, I worry that they actually may do more harm than good. And I'm not even talking about people who would never rape someone who are even more scared to approach and make legitimate advances on people due to things like this. It's oversimplifying the complex patterns present in abuse down to something that can be itself abused. Think about the statements I mentioned above and the fries poster. The last four points listed can be easily achieved by modifying those manipulative phrases. "You always make me feel like I'm forcing you, you know I always stop if you want me to" (for us looking in from the outside, that second statement is obviously a lie). Add a little Gaslighting and the victim will believe they're freely consenting. So now the victim sees this poster, and goes, "well, I guess it was consensual?" The fuck it was not. And that's often one of the main difficulties with recovering from rape in the first place: coming to terms with it. Rape is by nature incredibly traumatic, and in traumatic situations (especially ones like that) people often reason that the traumatic situation never happened, because dealing with it is too taxing. Meanwhile the person is developing psychological symptoms left, right and center, which the victim will often, then, in turn, also try to cover up.

So, what should we do to combat rape? Well, we have to take a more holistic approach. Consent is very important in sex, but it doesn't only apply to sex. We need to teach people how to recognize abusive behavior - and teach kids in school (obviously, at an age appropriate level) about abusive patterns. How to recognize it happening to them, and how to recognize it happening to others. We need to teach people how to deal with abusive situations. We need to reach people how to help others in abusive situations. At the moment, this is knowledge that mostly only specialists in that topic and people who are or were personally affected and did a lot of reading know. When these things become common knowledge, then we have a chance at turning the tide. We also need to vastly improve the way we deal with mental health. Essentially, we need much more readily and easily accessible psychological care. Treating trauma is one of the best ways to avoid victims becoming revictimized, since predators tend to feed on those who are already down, and can also avoid extreme cases where victims become perpetrators. Now, you may be thinking, "isn't that victim blaming?" We're not blaming the victim. The victim is not at fault for being a victim. The fault lies clearly at the perpetrator's feet for being such an abhorrent piece of shit. And while realizing that as a victim is incredibly important on the road to recovery, it doesn't change anything about what will help. Unfortunately, a perpetrator who keeps getting away with what they're doing will very, very rarely (really) change what they're doing. So, we can only try to help victims and avoid creating further victims.

Somewhere there’s a student council member who’s really proud of this poster.

Start a campaign to mass mail these to Trump. It has pictures so he's more likely to follow along.

They need to put these up around Microslop campus. They don’t understand what consent means.

https://nogamesforgenocide.com/

Its exactly as effective as a "gun free zone" sign.

This was a big thing in the military. If someone was assaulted, or if someone committed suicide, they would gather everyone in to one place for an all-day or even several-day powerpoint presentation on why that is bad. We did that "training" annually anyway, so it was just extra iterations of exactly the same prefabricated lessons and presentations, the most "check in the box" reaction you could possibly have. As if people with the propensity and inclination to commit assault would remember the extra lessons and choose differently, or the stressors leading someone to a fatal choice would be fixed by the powerpoint.

If only this poster was on Epstein's island somewhere

Okay, that's what "fries" stands for. Now what about "taco?"

I hate when people rape prople.

Continuous Enthusiastic Consent!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UBQkTvy3u18

If only this was around when Cosby was young.

You want to put mayo on his fries but isn't there someone you forgot to ask?