Multimodal Revision: Language Matters

In Rape Culture, a research paper that I wrote a year ago, there's a section that I talk about the commonly offensive language used in our everyday language that are sexualizing and perverted, phrases like: "suck my dick", "fuck yourself", "hit on someone", "throw like a girl", "you're a pussy", "you know she wanted it".  There are implications of these phrases that I want to take the time to point out, because words shape perceptions and I want to expose what exactly that means.

 I am considering that it would be nice to implement videos that exemplify this.  Just short clips of examples of each of these phrases and some more that put these phrases into action showing how normalizing it is within our language and then have a description about the effects of using such language and the implications that rape culture suggests, by using these phrases we are normalizing the ideas and creating a trivialization of what the words are actually saying.

Here is an example on youtube: https://youtu.be/wuk1qLOw17g

I'm pondering on the idea of using a TedTalk interview of Language and Rape Culture given by Kayce Singletary & Alexis Stratton. https://youtu.be/tss23dx9KrY
In this video, these two women do a great job of explaining language and the link between rape culture.

"Rape culture is the culture that condones and surrounds us that expects sexual violence and gender base violence to happen and it happens through the language that we use."Kayce Singletary

This is just one example of rape culture and how language sets up power differences that provides a platform that women become more passive towards men. Words have power and they have meaning, this point of the visual series I created is to exemplify this.  To show what happens when we create a language that normalizes rape.