Bystanders and Sexual Victimization

Who would you consider your hero?

Is there an iconic figure in pop culture that you
admire or consider to be an amazing human being?
Scenarios, Statistics, and Buzz Phrases
 This section includes:
implied graphic content regarding sexual violence

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 pick the popular culture hero you relate to most

For the following scenarios think:

What would he/she/they do?
now close your eyes and picture this
(if you need to leave do so now)
 First Scenario:
Time to Party!
Someone at this party is like 5 drinks in and totally
wasted, but everyone else around is chanting for
them to chug another beer.

OR

This one person does not want to drink and just

wants water.
In the United States, over 80% of college students have at least one alcoholic drink
over a two week time period. Of these college students, 40% are binge drinking. (5)

Research has found that perceived drinking norms are one of the most reliable
predictors of college students alcohol consumption. (5)

Active offers of alcoholrange from a simple gesture to highly encouraging a peer

to drink.(5)

Explicit offers are more prominent for those students who attend parties and
decide not to drinknon-drinkers are an easy target for drink offers and teasing
from their peers. (5)
 According to the statistics
Chug! Chug! Chug! Chug!
Its just one drink.
Its a party!
Youre not even driving.
Ill take you home. Dont worry!
Youre always so uptight.
Loosen up!
Its not going to kill you.
 Second Scenario:
Date Night
 While on a date things start getting heated.
One of them moves away and explains theyre just
not ready for this.
 One in 5 women and one in 16 men are sexually
assaulted while in college. (1)

It is estimated that for every 1,000 women attending a college or

university, there are 35 incidents of rape each academic year. (2)
 According to the statistics
Come on! Its just sex.
But I love you.
Then why did you even go on this date with me?
Its too late for excuses.
Be a man.
Youre being a tease!
I thought guys always wanted sex.
Ill dump you.
No one says no to me.
I dont take no for an answer.
 Third Scenario:
The Aftermath of the Party
 Someone has been heavily drinking. Theyre clearly
barely conscious and in no state to be doing anything
but sleeping off the alcohol.
 Among the total sample, 5% experienced a completed physically forced sexual
assault, but a much higher percentage (11%) experienced a completed incapacitated
sexual assault. (3)

In one study, one in 20 (4.7%) women reported being raped in college since the
beginning of the year a period of approximately 7 months and nearly three
quarters of those rapes (72%) happened with the victims were so intoxicated they
were unable to consent or refuse. (4)

More than one forth of those students [ones that reported having unprotected sex
while intoxicated] report being too intoxicated to know if they even consented to
have sex. (5)
According to the statistics

Well, he didnt say no.

Well, she didnt say no.
Your Hero and You
 Did you have trouble imagining your hero in those scenarios?
Could you imagine your hero saying those things?
Did you get to a point where you just stopped trying to imagine it?
If you cant imagine your hero doing it then why does it
still happen? We all want to be heroes, so why do the
numbers show were letting villains win or becoming
villains ourselves?
 If you cant even fathom these heroes giving into, ignoring, or
committing these acts then why should you consider it excusable
for yourself? How can we hold our heroes to such high standards
and refuse to accept the same for ourselves?
 We are all humans,
but wouldnt we all like to be heroes?
In the end, it is our choice.
Sometimes you dont know the best decision to
make to be a hero, so these videos are to help
you know what to do in many of the given
scenarios from before.
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https://you
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 *to be cited more properly before being used
(1) Statistics for Sexual Violence. (2015). National Sexual Violence Resource Center.
Retrieved from
http://www.nsvrc.org/sites/default/files/publications_nsvrc_factsheet_media-
packet_statistics-about-sexual-violence_0.pdf
(2) Fisher, B.S., Cullen, F.T., & Turner, M.G. (2000). The Sexual Victimization of College Women.
National Institute of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics.
(3) Krebs, C.P., Lindquist, C.H., Warner, T.D., Fisher, B.S., & Martin, S.L. (2007). The Campus
Sexual Assault (CSA) Study. National Institute of Justice.
(4) Mohler-Kuo, M., Dowdall, G., Koss, M., & Wechsler, H. (2004). Correlates of Rape While
Intoxicated in a National Sample of College Women. Journal of Studies on Alcohol, 65,
37-45.
(5) Peer pressure and alcohol Use amongst college students. (n.d.)Applied Psychology
Online Publication of Undergraduate Studies. New York University Steinhardt.
(6) American University (Producer). (2014, August 19). Step Up [Video on file]. Retrieved from
https://youtu.be/491e8Oku0Jw
(7) Thames Valley Police (Producer). (2015, November 16). Tea and Consent [Video on file].