Lifecollege2
Lorraine Powe
Emily Creamer
Business Orientation
30 October 2014
Life @ College Part 2
Life @ College Part 2 presentation was one of the best sexual abuse talks I have had in years. I was so upset it was short. I went to a all girl high school in maryland for four years so I am very use to the domestic violence talks and events. All the talks and events that i attended in high school had one thing in common. They all made it seem like it is one gender’s responsibility not both. Most of them were about us girls taking self defense classes and being on full alert mode all the time. Then there were some events that made it seem like it was just the males responsibility to not assault the females. I did not appreciate that because it just put responsibility on gender and it is on both genders not just one. I really enjoyed that the speaker after the skit acknowledged this issue and introduced a new perspective on sexual abuse.
He introduced the concept of CONSENT. Consent is the small agreement that change the situation good or bad. If a person does not say no or does not say yes that is not the go head to continue on with the activity.Consent must be clear for each person at every stage of a sexual encounter. Then he talked about the consent involving alcohol and drugs. He said that if a person is asleep or mentally or physically incapacitated because of drugs or alcohol or any other reason that he/she is not capable of giving valid consent.No matter the amount of alcohol or drugs may seriously interfere with a person’s judgment during the consent aspect. Consent can be seen as something little and it might “ruin the mood” but its very big when it is not given and activities escalate.
I really enjoyed this presentation because he talked about the consent mostly instead of blaming it on one gender. I would to join the Life @college crew because I was apart of the Students Against Destructive Decisions (SADD) Club all four years of high school.
Emily Creamer
Business Orientation
30 October 2014
Life @ College Part 2
Life @ College Part 2 presentation was one of the best sexual abuse talks I have had in years. I was so upset it was short. I went to a all girl high school in maryland for four years so I am very use to the domestic violence talks and events. All the talks and events that i attended in high school had one thing in common. They all made it seem like it is one gender’s responsibility not both. Most of them were about us girls taking self defense classes and being on full alert mode all the time. Then there were some events that made it seem like it was just the males responsibility to not assault the females. I did not appreciate that because it just put responsibility on gender and it is on both genders not just one. I really enjoyed that the speaker after the skit acknowledged this issue and introduced a new perspective on sexual abuse.
He introduced the concept of CONSENT. Consent is the small agreement that change the situation good or bad. If a person does not say no or does not say yes that is not the go head to continue on with the activity.Consent must be clear for each person at every stage of a sexual encounter. Then he talked about the consent involving alcohol and drugs. He said that if a person is asleep or mentally or physically incapacitated because of drugs or alcohol or any other reason that he/she is not capable of giving valid consent.No matter the amount of alcohol or drugs may seriously interfere with a person’s judgment during the consent aspect. Consent can be seen as something little and it might “ruin the mood” but its very big when it is not given and activities escalate.
I really enjoyed this presentation because he talked about the consent mostly instead of blaming it on one gender. I would to join the Life @college crew because I was apart of the Students Against Destructive Decisions (SADD) Club all four years of high school.