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The Family Violence Partnership in Milwaukee, via ad agency Serve, has launched a print campaign to, uh, lift awareness of the crime of statutory rape. Well, I guess we can give them credit for not using a too-subtle method to visualize the problem. Buuut, super-fetishizing young girls, maybe, is not the smartest approach?

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How do these ads target those who are doing the raping?

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[ 06 February 2008: Message edited by: martin dufresne ]

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Originally posted by martin dufresne:
Of course. I am sorry if my post was read as some kind of putdown; it wasn't in my mind.
Don't you think it's an important distinction though?

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Can we agree,

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...focussing all attention on the abuser and any support away from the people he assaults?

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[ 06 February 2008: Message edited by: remind ]

I showed them to someone the other night who's a CAS intake worker. I had enlarged the posters so I had to scroll down which I suppose made them worse, but she sort of shuddered.

[edited because when I'm angry and disgusted, I say the most tactless stuff.]

[ 08 February 2008: Message edited by: OMeNerves ]

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The ad does garner attention, but by using a photoshopped image of a girl, as opposed to an actual teenager it fails to reinforce the actual message.

However, the ad itself isn’t what prompted me to write this post. The responses to the ad on mainstream feminist blogs did. As I scrolled through the comments in each thread, I was shocked to see how many women were willing to dismiss statutory rape as an issue of mistaken identity. While there were definately some commenters who spoke up as to why the ads were needed, I was astounded to see how many feminists defended the poor men in this situation, who were tricked by these age-bending teens into having sex. The prevailing assumption was that these girls were somewhere they had no business being, doing grown adult things and most of this statutory rape stuff was just an innocent mistake. Some women even threw in their own accounts of looking tragically underage and having to deal with being endlessly carded or having men leave them alone because they looked so young. Tough life.

But not as tough as a fifteen year old trying to cope with a grown man’s affections.

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