Lacey Missaghian
Weekly Participation Oct 25th 2014
First off, I want to thank you Mr. Kubal for allowing us to attend Take Back the Night. I had never heard about it let alone been. On our walk over to the free speech area the mood of just the class room was shadowed with a sort of somber emotion. Before any speakers took the stage we had some time to check out the tables. I was asked to write on a banner what I rather be doing at that very moment other than talk about violence against women, obviously anything would do. Shortly after making my rounds the speeches began. The mood of the crowd what quite and respectful. Which is what you should expect considering this is such a touchy subject. I found it uplifting that they choose to start off the speeches with a group of older women who sang silly songs that included curse words for a nice awakening shock value, helped to loose up the crowd. After the older women the real deep stuff started. One thing I thought when I went into this was that it wasn't for me, It didn't apply to me. I had never been raped and therefore I was an outsider looking in but what I realized by the time I left was that it was for me. It was for everyone, men and women included. What really hit home for me was when one of the professors was speaking and saying something about being scared when walking to your car at night. I thought to myself "uhm yeah like at least twice a week." Then I realized why I was scared. It wasn't because its dark or quite or whatever else I might chalk it up to but it was because I feared someone attacking me. Particularly a male and possible raping me. At that moment, I realized I wasn't actually an outsider looking in, but a conscious advocate.
Jose Guerrero
ReplyDeleteI agree with you about the booths that were up were really interesting especially the one with people writing on the shirts. Some of the comments were interesting to read about. You wrote about walking alone at night and being aware that one might get raped. We'll I agree that is the time of when one might get attacked, I will you like I have told my wife try not to walk alone always be aware of surrounding and if possible be on the phone while you walk that way you are always in contact with someone. It is always better to be aware are ready in any situation.