When People Who Are Supposed To Have Our Best Interests At Heart, Don't...
For the Students in Transition Seminar, we have to go to various on-campus events. One of the required events was a Health and Wellness Presentation. For the most part, it was great. I learned where all the health centers are, how to get counseling if I need it, and so on. However, when the (white, male) speaker got to the topic of alcohol, he encouraged us not to drink and used the sentence "I'm not victim blaming, but why would you put yourself in a situation like that?"
There was no mention of enthusiastic consent, or grey rape, or what constitutes date rape. Nothing. Just a mention that you can get free condoms and dental dams at the health centers. As for domestic violence or relationship violence, there was a brief mention of a center "down the street."
The presentation wasn't exactly made any better by the really mature college students laughing every time he said "penis" or "vagina."
Just goes to show that not everyone thinks the way DRC does.