Discounting for a moment that these are targeted at a college-age demographic, are there people out there on the verge of committing sexual assault who would be swayed by the advise of a cartoon taco?
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Personally, I think the message featured in these posters is of the utmost importance.
I think it should be broadcast and re-broadcast, at all levels, until the population has been saturated by it.
That the message is here being broadcast using signage suitable for a fourth grade classroom but aimed at a college demographic is horrifying. That such signage would be a necessary tool of communication within that demographic is fucking TERRIFYING.
This was posted not to belittle the message or to make light of our need for it - but to highlight just how pitifully we have failed as a culture/civilization for having the need to implement it…
I considered deleting this post entirely, under the notion that my intentions had misfired badly. But the discourse in this thread seems like it has as much potential to be a part of the solution as a talking anthropomorphic taco.
Art should challenge conceptions and ignite dialogue. So, perhaps the taco was an effective tool.
This was a big thing in the military. If someone was assaulted, or if someone committed suicide, they would gather everyone in to one place for an all-day or even several-day powerpoint presentation on why that is bad. We did that “training” annually anyway, so it was just extra iterations of exactly the same prefabricated lessons and presentations, the most “check in the box” reaction you could possibly have. As if people with the propensity and inclination to commit assault would remember the extra lessons and choose differently, or the stressors leading someone to a fatal choice would be fixed by the powerpoint.