By creating a web page with these images and descriptions found within the research paper and other sources I can fully express what each image represents to narrow down the "visual" element with the textual evidence/elements.
I will also be able to include clips of a song that is considered a contributing factor (as many out there exist) of a normalizing of "rape".
The internet will be the accessibility for this project as it is a platform to reach many people in order to enlighten on what exactly "rape culture" is and how we can work to create an anti-rape culture. By creating a web-page I can upload it to multiple blogs as well as my own and other websites geared towards spreading this awareness.
Here is one of the images that I will be working with, among many others. This girl is just a model that was used in the making of the project to project text that is commonly said towards rape victims. "She didn't say No" has been used many times in the defense of men that basically says, if you don't say no the body is a right of passage to do with what one pleases. The idea is that by juxtaposing these words that represent rape culture onto images that it better expresses to what it actually means when words like this are said.
I will be able to explain each created image along with the statistics about rape and information on rape that I put into my research paper, in hopes to further exemplify this world called rape culture.
I really like your idea, and it seems like it would be a pretty seamless transfer. Do you have any other data that you haven't already acquired that you might use for this project? Also, are you just going to use words that men say in order to defend the act of rape, or are you going to incorporate some things that women may be thinking after the moment, before the moment, during the moment? I think that would be something cool to consider as it relates to both genders as well. You might also consider a discussion on domestic violence in sports.
ReplyDeleteRoss, I have thought about these, thank you! Part of the images that I have also include an image of a woman with a man covering her mouth and the text says "she will ruin his career". This lends itself to the amount of athletes, actors, etc. that have gotten away with crimes creating an idea that their careers are more important.
DeleteI would like to cover both genders, but rape culture is about the normalizing of rape by the trivialization that happens via media, etc.
So it's mostly what both genders say about the incident: was she drinking, what was she wearing, she was asking for it, all those kinds of things.
I also have approprations of advertisements that I recreated and put "it's just advertisement","it's just porn", "It's just a joke".
The affects of media an how the woman is objectified and constantly a victim of sexualization and violence is the creation of a rape culture, which I am trying to express.
I have been thinking about it in terms of the men that are raped too, however, I am not sure that this lends itself to the project of rape culture itself, but just the fact that rape happens to all genders.
It's interesting how this project will allow you to bring text to images, instead of the other way around, which will be the case for most of the other projects. Clearly and unfortunately a timely project.
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