I cannot believe how disgusted I am with Ball State students. To make Facebook fan pages, and even a fucking EVENT in honor of sexual harassment on campus. This is beyond belief. I have so many thoughts and emotions right now I don't even think I can express them like everything else I write about. I just can't believe a school would band together to make a mockery of these girls.
Sure, it sounds funny. Some guy on a bike slapped two girls on the behinds, rode off, and it was reported to the Ball State police department. Very funny, right? I'll admit, I even laughed when I first heard it, but my interpretation quickly changed from something harmless, like a sitcom-humor, to something a little more serious, like legitimate sexual harassment.
There were two reported cases of this, but who knows if or how many other girls were victims of this little prank.
One thing is for sure, its not okay to poke fun at and make a mockery of the women who didn't approve of being harassed by a stranger.
If this happened to me, I wouldn't be happy. Absolutely no one is allowed to touch me without my consent, let alone a reason to even think about touching me in the first place.
Do you think these girls have facebook? Do you think they haven't SEEN THE PAGE!? This is beyond victim-blaming, it's victim MOCKERY. And this is taking place during Sexual Harassment Awareness Month. And Ball State students are so happy to humiliate these girls.
And now, I come to find a campus-event called "Ass-Slapping Wednesday". I'm lucky enough to not be the one in four women who's been seriously sexually assaulted her lifetime, but even this just hits me as sheer evil. Yes, evil. Evil like the biblical term that describes the devil himself. Such disrespect towards these girls is beyond words right now. Has anyone even read the update? This man is facing battery charges. Battery. This goes to show that "slap" is lightening the subject, these women were hit. Battery can fall under a felony count, not to menton this falls under sexual circumstances.
I actually submitted this story to quite a few of my favorite feminist blogs, and I'm hoping word will get out about this. I just found it especially unique, because of all the triggering blogs they've posted about pro-rape facebook pages among college campuses, none have ever condoned victim mockery.
I find it funny that the description for "Ass Slapping Wednesday" specifically states that it must be kept consensual, so as to not cause any controversy over the game. I wonder why it has to be consensual....
It looks like after EIGHT HOURS they finally decided to update that they're not condoning violence towards women or assault, but they're making fun of the fact that this is considered an emergency situation. That lifts an enormous weight, but the comments and the pictures speak for themselves. The fans are in it to humiliate the girls who reported it, and no one can deny that. Just read them. Its disgusting.
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