The Power of Video

I browsed Youtube to check out some video essay's on Rape Culture for research on my multimodal project.  I came across this interview on the #SRShow in which the interviewed person talks against the acceptance of rape culture, denying it's existence and blaming feminists in creating this ideology.  

The ability we have as individuals to create whatever type of video we want and the accessibility of spreading it to the masses makes the knowledge that is shared, persuasive, and possibly effective for naive minds.  

I found the interview to be a man not able to identify with rape and therefore resisting the idea of rape culture.  He has sound arguments and ideas that help to place value on the importance of not denying rape, yet uses language to to create an effective argument against the feminists that have come up with this idea of rape culture.  Rape Culture is the idea that rape is normalized and thus the victim is blamed.  This concept is not able to be denied, the mass media certainly promotes rape culture and therefore, it has entered into everyday life through multiple examples.  What is important is embracing this idea and figuring out what to do about it, not to resist it.  I find that he isn't rhetorically listening to those who believe in the existence of rape culture and why, he is refusing to identify with it and therefore resisting against it.

I had to share this interview, because although I find it repulsive, I agree with some of his comments and I also feel that it exemplifies the power that people have in a social media space and to put question on what that means to have the freedom to create videos that counter very important theories.

Below is an example of a video essay on consent.  I find that the power of this video speaks loudly on the power of multimodal texts.  It is a simple cartoon drawing and a narrator and yet incredibly POWERFUL.