Mashboard

The way the media and society acts towards teen sexual assault and rape victims often blames the women and makes excuses for the men. I wanted to incorporate media into victim blaming, showing that they relate to one and another. By having an Instagram profile as my mashboard, students will be drawn because they are actually interested in Instagram and enjoy social media. By using red as the background, viewers eyes process the red and think…bold, strong, bad. Although most teens find Instagram as a happy site, they will look into my poster and start to see the negative effects of social media and how social media plays a large role in victim blaming.

 

Patrick Kane. Athlete. Superstar. The picture I “posted” of Kane is from an article with the headline, Patrick Kane just another athlete whose partying may have led to worse. When you read the headline of the article, readers would have no idea that it is an article about Kane being accused of rape.

The media does not say the predator is at fault.In order to help people understand my message I used Heather Ross’s quote, “It was very troubling that social media’s response was blaming the victims of sexual assault, suggesting that she was asking for the assault by engaging in this excessive partying.” It is important to realize that the media blames the victim, like making Kane look not guilty. I included this as the first image because I feel this is a strong message to hook the readers. Many people are shaped not to realize the victim is at fault. After realizing the way the media can shape our brains, viewers will be hooked and want to keep reading

 

 

By placing the picture of Roxanne Gay, a victim of sexual assault, along with her quotes as my second post, viewers’ are drawn directly to the image of her and her short, yet powerful quotes.

The image of Gay, helps readers better picture gay leading them to better understand her quotations. The darkness and bubbles around her quotes will make it difficult to look away, but the fact that Gay is a real person and telling HER personal story will make viewers more interested. We’ve been socialized to believe that a woman causes herself to be assaulted or raped, but after putting ourselves in Gay’s shoes, hopefully, people will notice, it is never the woman to blame. The memoir allows readers to be able to feel what Gay went through and is still going through and question how society leads a big role in victim blaming.

 

 

 

By having my last post be of a blindfolded man, viewers will need to think outside of the box, seeing how this can relate to victim blaming perpetrated by the media. I added a quote,“ We often don’t know what’s going on”, across the picture of the blindfolded man. The picture along with the quote connects to why we often blame the women. Since the photo is dark and scary, it shows what life is like for a victim during/after the attack yet also shows how blind our society is when it comes to blaming people for sexual assault.

We are socialized to always want an answer. We are socialized to believe we know everything. The quote contradicts that and says that we really do not know what’s going on always. Everyone makes assumptions but people honestly don’t know what it’s like to be blamed, to feel that being hurt was one’s own fault. This “post” allows viewers to see both sides of how everyone feels after someone was attacked. We are shaped to having one opinion, one side of the story, but this post is able to show the blindness of the outsiders yet the fear of the ones being attacked.