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You, Me and Us Powerpoint For 18 To 24 Year Olds
You, Me and Us Powerpoint For 18 To 24 Year Olds
education project
Group agreement
Listen to each other
Respect each others comments and
opinions
Support each other and work together
What is consent?
Consent means free agreement of your
own free will, not because you're forced,
scared or threatened. Both people must
freely agree to engage in sexual activity for
there to be consent. Sex without the
consent is a crime (Victoria Legal Aid,
2014).
What is consent?
To give consent you must:
Be the right age. The law sets clear age limits for having
sex. The age limits are designed to protect young people
from being taken advantage of by older people
Be sober and awake. If someone is unconscious or
affected by alcohol or drugs, then they cannot freely
agree
Be mentally and physically able. A person has to have
the mental ability to make decisions and the physical
ability to communicate their desires (Victoria Legal Aid,
2014).
Consent questions
Questions:
Are the people in this scenario acting
appropriately regarding consent? Why or why
not?
If you were a bystander in this scenario, what
are your rights and responsibilities?
If you saw your friend in this situation, what
would your responsibility be to act?
What is one way the people in the story could
communicate more effectively about sex?
Mythbusting attitudes
Violence against women is not common in Australia
Violence against women is extremely common in Australia. One in three
women have experienced violence at least once in their lives (ABS, 2012).
If a woman is wearing revealing clothes, she is asking for it or she
deserved it
Rape or sexual assault is not caused by a woman choosing to wear certain
clothes. It happens because the perpetrator chooses to commit a crime. No
one asks to be raped and no one deserves it.
Violence is caused by alcohol and substance abuse
Violence is a choice. Alcohol and drugs are often used by perpetrators as an
excuse for their behaviour. Almost equal numbers of perpetrators are drunk or
sober.
Mythbusting attitudes
Men are naturally violent and sometimes just lose their temper and cant
control it
Violence is a choice. Being angry is an emotion, but people choose whether or not to be
violent. Men are not naturally violent. They are conditioned by our society to believe that
violence is normal and acceptable. Often perpetrators are not violent towards other men or
people in positions of power. Perpetrators choose to use violence to gain power and control.
Sexual assault occurs because men cant control their need for sex
Violence is a choice. Men can make choices not to assault someone. Perpetrators use
sexual assault to gain power and control.
Mythbusting attitudes
It is a mans right to have sex within a marriage or relationship
Rape is rape. Sex in marriage and relationships should always be consensual and
never forced.
Violence against women only occurs in certain groups
Violence against women occurs in every community.
Violence against women is mostly committed by strangers
More than two-thirds of women who have experienced violence have known the
person who committed the violence.
Some people deserve to be beaten because they provoke the violence.
No one deserves to be assaulted. The responsibility rests solely with the
perpetrator. There is no excuse for violence. Some women will defend themselves
in an abusive relationship but there is a difference between abusing someone and
defending yourself from being abused further.
Gender
What is the difference between sex and
gender?
What are some examples of gender
stereotypes?
Where do stereotypes come from?
What is a bystander?
A bystander is a person or persons, not directly
involved as a victim or perpetrator, who
observes an act of violence, discrimination or
other unacceptable behaviour (VicHealth, 2012).
Bystander scenarios
Party scene
You are at a party talking with your friend. You see a girl
you know being led upstairs by a guy. You know she has
had a lot to drink. What should you do?
Talking with mates in the change rooms at football
practice
After football practice your friends say to you, That
Melissa chick is such a babe. I wouldnt mind banging her.
Ill probably get the chance because shes a bit of a slut.
How should you respond?
Bystander scenarios
A sexist comment on your friends Facebook page
You log onto your Facebook and notice that your friend has posted
a comment that reads, What do you say to a woman with two black
eyes? Nothing, youve already told her twice! How should you
respond?
A woman getting hassled on the train
You are on a crowded train and you see a man standing over a
woman. You hear him make sexually suggestive comments about
her breasts and body. The woman is trying to tell him to stop and
looks very uncomfortable but the man pays no attention to what she
is saying. Everyone else on the train is doing their best to ignore
what is happening. How should you respond?
cohealth
Victims assistance and counselling program
Phone: (03) 8398 4100
Counselling line
Phone: (03) 8398 4178
MensLine Australia
Professional telephone and online support, information and referral service, helping men to deal with relationship problems in a
practical and effective way
Phone: 1300 78 99 78
Thank you!
References
Australian Bureau of Statistics (2012) Personal safety survey, cat. no.
4906.0, Australian Bureau of Statistics, Canberra.
Womens Health in the North (2009) Love Control video, Bentwheel
productions, Australia, viewed 24 April 2013,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DP_MuGJIAjA.
VicHealth (2012) More than ready: bystander action to prevent violence
against women in the Victorian community, Victorian Health Promotion
Foundation, Carlton
Victoria Legal Aid (2014) Sex and the law, accessed 14 October 2014,
http://www.legalaid.vic.gov.au/find-legal-answers/sex-and-law/sexualassault.