Brandon Guthier
Timothy Kubal
Sociology: Sex and Gender
October 22, 2014
For this week's weekly participation, we attended an event called Take Back the Night. It is an event that is put on to raise awareness about sexual assault. The first thing we did was walk around to the tables that were set out. Some tables had interesting shirts hung up behind them with victims of sexual assault who wrote about what their experience was like during the time they were assaulted and what helped them overcome it. Some of the shirts even went as far as listing when the abuse started and when it ended. After visiting tables, speakers came up to the main stage and informed the crowd about sexual assault, how to overcome it, and what society needs to do to eliminate it. one specific group known as The Raging Grannies even took it up a notch by singing songs based off of the sexual assault topic itself.
Sara Hernandez
ReplyDeleteOctober 27 2014
Bradon I really enjoyed your post , maybe because it was the same things that I noticed and wrote about on mine . I really thought that it was fascinating seeing all the shirts with all the writing on them, and I too was able to read some of the fascinating stories. However, I did not read the one where you talked about on your post about the little boy. It's very sad but things like these occur and even more sad when it has to do with children. I also agree with you that the event "Take Back The Night" was not only about sexual assault awareness but of other things to. PS the Granny's that perform, in their songs they sing about women and how they are seen the wrong way. So their songs are sarcasm about things like that . For example, the one about the uterus. They kept saying uterus over and over again was because I guess some male politic, I'm not sure what his name was said something about not using the word uterus and that's why it the Granny's wrote that song.