Comments on: You Can Help http://www.greaterfalls.com/index.php/2008/04/22/you-can-help/ A weblog ("blog") about Great Falls, Montana! Thu, 09 Feb 2012 02:19:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Janna Lee http://www.greaterfalls.com/index.php/2008/04/22/you-can-help/comment-page-1/#comment-330552 Janna Lee Wed, 23 Apr 2008 07:27:12 +0000 http://www.greaterfalls.com/index.php/2008/04/22/you-can-help/#comment-330552 Dave~ Thank you so much for posting this, We do appreciate it very much! :D Jason, I think you may be correct in your assessment that we tend to get everyone "numbed" to the fact by doing it so frequently, What should really take people over that numbing point is the question they should ask themselves. Why are these benefits done so frequently? Because Sexual Assaults, happen THAT frequently. 1 in 6 people are sexually assaulted, raped or in a situation involving an unwanted sexual act. 1 in 6. Put a face to those 6. You mother, your sisters, your best friends, your girlfriend your daughter and it happens to men as well so pick whoever. Of those 6 that you chose, It is a very very good chance that someone was sexually assaulted. I know for me, that makes me not numb, but angry. Dave~ Thank you so much for posting this, We do appreciate it very much! :D

Jason, I think you may be correct in your assessment
that we tend to get everyone “numbed” to the fact by doing it so frequently, What should really take people over that numbing point is the question they should ask themselves. Why are these benefits done so frequently? Because Sexual Assaults, happen THAT
frequently. 1 in 6 people are sexually assaulted, raped or in a situation involving an unwanted sexual act. 1 in 6. Put a face to those 6. You mother, your sisters, your best friends, your girlfriend your daughter and it happens to men as well so pick whoever. Of those 6 that you chose, It is a very very good chance that someone was sexually assaulted. I know for me, that makes me not numb, but angry.

]]> By: Jason http://www.greaterfalls.com/index.php/2008/04/22/you-can-help/comment-page-1/#comment-330274 Jason Tue, 22 Apr 2008 20:31:50 +0000 http://www.greaterfalls.com/index.php/2008/04/22/you-can-help/#comment-330274 It's common to question the "effectiveness" of awareness campaigns because awareness is a slow process. Understanding doesn't happen overnight. Also, awareness does not equate a solution. The goal is to recognize the victims, to set aside time in which to think about the issue at hand, and, essentially, to "light up the darkness" that allows these crimes to take place - that is, our perceived distance from the crimes. I think actually that awareness campaigns can be TOO effective, numbing people to the issue, reducing it to a catch phrase or lip-service statements/charity/boycotts. It’s common to question the “effectiveness” of awareness campaigns because awareness is a slow process. Understanding doesn’t happen overnight. Also, awareness does not equate a solution. The goal is to recognize the victims, to set aside time in which to think about the issue at hand, and, essentially, to “light up the darkness” that allows these crimes to take place – that is, our perceived distance from the crimes.

I think actually that awareness campaigns can be TOO effective, numbing people to the issue, reducing it to a catch phrase or lip-service statements/charity/boycotts.

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