On Thursday, Nov 16, I attended a workshop during my break time. This workshop is to provides awareness and prevention education to students about sexual harassment & assault, relationship violence, stalking, bystander intervention and gender based interpersonal violence. Sexual violence affects women and men. About 1 in 3 women and nearly 1 in 6 men were victims of contact sexual violence at some point in their lives. Nearly 23 million women and 1.7 million men have been the victims of rape or attempted rape at some point in their lives. The representative starts with bystander, which means someone who around the situation but not taking part. She provides us several example of sexual harassment, Brock Turner, who committed a sexual harassment. Luckily, he was caught by the police. What is consent? Consent is an informed, voluntary and mutual decision to engage in agreed upon sexual activity. Each person must clearly communicate his/her willingness and permission to engage in sexual activity. The representative show us the ten signs of a healthy relationship are comfortable pace, trust, independence, honesty, loyalty, respect, equality, compassion, taking responsibility, and communication. Having a clear communication is significant with your partners.
Most of us as a bystander, watching someone was assaulted by others, most common is we can avoid something happen by our actions. As the video plays in the workshop, who are you while you are around the situation, act as a stranger, a bystander, not taking any action to avoid someone being harassment or assault. The most impression from the video is encourage us be an active bystander, it is important to step in to help prevent when someone is in danger. It is our responsibility to protect one another, take action to avoid the tragedy. Whether or not you were able to change the outcome of the situation, by stepping in you are helping prevent sexual violence.