Many people get emails or texts from our school about time warning pertaining to sexual offenses ranging from rape to harassment, and regardless of which one it is they are both serious in nature. I am sure everyone is getting these messages and going what the hell is going on our campus all the time but the truth is it is not just our campus. It is a problem though out the country and is often the subject of debate concerning the safety of college students. I knew for a fact that it is very concerning to me because it can happen to anyone.
Most of the time it involves someone the victims knows either from the party or from classes and the victims trusts this person. But you have to be very weary of even these so called friends that you bring to parties and think that they are just being friendly and lightly flirting with you. You never know what the intentions are of the person next to you and what could happen. It is tragic that is this day and age that friends are people that you have to worry about just as much as you would for a stranger.
Most of the timely warnings here at Penn State occur on the weekend early in the morning usually right after people are getting out of the frats. And this is no excuse by any means for the person who commits these horrible acts but you should get intoxicated to the point that you don’t know what is going on until the last minute and you cannot do anything to stop it. Know your limit and make sure you are not endangering yourself by going over that limit. And like I said this is not an excuse for committing this acts but never the less it is a way to help prevent this things from happening at an alarming rate.
People who commit this crimes often use the excuse that she wanted it from what she was wearing and she was giving off signals that she wanted to do this. And sometimes that is the case at first and a girls does give consent but the issue is often the girl will tell the guy or the guy will tell the girl that he/she doesn’t want to do this anymore but the other person doesn’t want to listen and continues anyway. The way a girl dresses is never an okay for someone to commit sexual assault on another person. Guys and girls are allowed to wear whatever they want and it isn’t up to you to decide what signals his/her cloths are giving of about her. Yes their cloths can often grab attention to them and bring up sexual thoughts in your head but as a human being you need to not act like a savage and resist the urge to do something stupid.
Prime examples of these assaults are Brock Turner, Beckett Brennan, and there are many more that plague this nation. We need to help prevent this things from happening before they get any worse in this country. How would you help stop sexual assaults? Do you think there is a double standard when it comes to a man or a women in a sexual assault case?