🧵(1/5): Let’s be clear — we cannot effectively combat campus sexual assault if we cannot meaningfully engage men every step of the way.
Here’s what our #EngagingMen report’s participants said about the ineffectiveness of their campus’s sexual assault prevention programs. ⬇️
🧵(2/5): "I didn’t really care. I barely listened and still passed."
—@MichiganStateU Student
🧵(3/5): "The topic deserves my respect, but the way they teach it… it’s just easy to dismiss. It’s not something a lot of people take seriously."
—@NorthwesternU Student
🧵(4/5): "They just recycle the same stuff, and it’s online and you just half-ass it because you want to get it over with and it seems like it’s common sense to just not assault someone."
—@NorthwesternU Student
🧵(5/5): Make no mistake — many of our universities can and must do better.
Read the full report, and learn how you and your university can make a meaningful change to the current sexual assault prevention trainings: itsonus.org/engaging-men
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In 1999, the Italian Supreme Court overturned a rape conviction in which an 18-year-old student in Italy was raped by her 45-year-old driving instructor during a driving lesson in 1992.
They ruled that because she was wearing tight jeans, there must have been consent.
In an act of solidarity, women lawmakers wore jeans to work and protested on the steps of the Italian Supreme Court.
Solidarity actions soon spread around the world, starting in Los Angeles in April 1999.