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.
Yeah there really are such people.
The whole mass of humanity is mostly doing whatever feels kind of normal most of the time and not thinking about it.
Countering the momentum of “holy shit I really want to be fucking right now I am so hot for this” takes a LOT of work.
If you can make “I changed my mind and I don’t want to get fucked after all” a thing then you need to seed that idea (stop fucking) as a normal thing that people just do when it feels right, in advance, firmly in the mind of insecure young people who never had any deep thought about sex at all before.