During today's class discussion, we were able to cover how pathos is portrayed in the rape culture. Pathos is the emotional side of the audience or what the writer is trying to portray throughout the story. One concept that is related to the culture of rape that we discussed was collective compassion and what that truly is. In my opinion, collective compassion is compassion that the entire community can agree on. If we as a culture want to reach collective compassion, there are many things we need to begin to change to achieve that.
One thing that would need to change over time is being proactive versus reactive. When connecting this specific particular to media, media is always going to be reactive to the situation. And by doing so, we in our communities are not getting anywhere further in progressing to making communities safer and decreasing the rate of rape. The difference between being proactive and reactive will, I think, begin to see the differences in collective compassion and rape. Being proactive would be the beginning of changing the cultural norms in our society. Changing the commonplaces that we tend to look at as a normal "college" thing and understand that what we are doing is not being proactive. To be proactive, we should begin to analyze the where these cultural norms are not so normal. Binge drinking and drinking until you are blacked out, is something that should be worry some to the world. We as a culture focus too much on reactive side of rape and not changing the factors that help cause it. We focus on what the victim could have done wrong, we focus on how much everyone involved drank and the location that the crime took place in. However, what about what can we do to create positive proactive traits to help the victims or the people who find themselves in these situations. We need to begin to acknowledge that the taboo of rape is not a bad thing. It sits at the same place that sex does, where it is not a public topic to discuss, but hey guess what? Everyone is doing it. Everyone has sex. How would we keep producing and populating this world without it? By acknowledging rape, we are taking one step closer to reassuring victims of direct and indirect cases of rape that they will be okay and it is okay. By doing so, we can help them take a stand to how they got themselves in that position. Another important proactive detail that we should look at it, is what can we offer to victims to help them share their what they want. By properly educating people in this world, we can begin to help prevent rape around our communities.
If we can begin to be proactive and not reactive, we could see a change in rape numbers in our society. Unfortunately, we as a society must be picky how we to choose to demonstrate and voice our opinions without it coming across as an extreme. Too many times in our society, people cry wolf and then no one takes their opinion, voice and incidents seriously. How can we find the middle ground to properly educating the men and women of this generation without them viewing it as a joke?
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