Stopping sexual assault: Students turn to video games to empower bystanders
Nov 15, 2018
3 minutes
What do these three actions have in common?
- Starting a conversation about football.
- Offering a friend a feminine hygiene product.
- Responding to someone’s request for an “angel shot” at a bar.
They’re all ways that everyday people have intervened in situations that they worried could have led to a sexual assault.
The first one happened when a student noticed a man plying her friend with vodka; she started a conversation about the NFL, prompting the man to get bored and leave. In the second, a student offered a creative excuse so a friend could escape sexual pressure at a party.
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