It's On Us "Autocorrect" PSA translates casual conversation to reveal rape culture

[Tennis]

A new PSA is aiming to illustrate the subtle yet insidious ways in which rape culture seeps into everyday conversations.

On Tuesday, former Vice President Joe Biden tweeted a new video from the It's On Us campaign he spearheaded during his time in the White House. Titled "Autocorrect," the video makes illustrative edits to an all-too-realistic conversation about sexual assault.

he PSA features two men discussing a hookup over text. Bro No. 1 asks Bro No. 2, "Remember that drunk chick I was talking to at the party?" "Talking to" autocorrects to "targeting" before Bro No. 1 explains he "had to encourage her a bit" in order to "get some" — "encourage" correcting to "force."

The described encounter ends with the girl's friend knocking on Bro No. 1's door, "running her mouth" ("asking if she's OK"). Bro No. 2's characterization of that friend as a "b*tch" autocorrects to "hero." The totally "good time" the first man expected to have was aptly autocorrected to "rape."

The bottom line:

"Don't ignore the subtext," the voiceover says. "It's on us to intervene in sexual assault."

Furthermore, as Biden put it in his tweet, "The correct word for sex without consent is rape. Period."

Biden launched the It's On Us campaign in 2014 to help improve bystander intervention to prevent sexual assault, educate people about consent, support survivors and bring men into the conversation — in this case, by offering them a handy translation lesson for future use.

It seems the big guns are starting to get on board the fight to stop rape culture.
You can really see the difference in wording that a normal person would use vs a rapist.

https://mic.com/articles/172367/it-s...ure#.Wg4w3dnX2

[Slant]

Anyone who uses "rape culture" unironically should be banned from the internet for life.

We'll miss you, Gabriel. :P

[Deleted]

It seems the big guns are starting to get on board the fight to stop rape culture.
You can really see the difference in wording that a normal person would use vs a rapist.

Well, won't be affecting me, since I'm neither a rapist, nor a representative of a rape culture. Although I'm eager to see the squirming and mental gymnastics when feminists find out who will be affected.

[Super Kami Dende]

The Thought Police Strike again!

Because what better way to fear monger than to remove context or take something out of it!

[the game]

rape culture isn't a thing...

[Revi]

"Talking to a girl" is not interchangeable with "targeting a girl".
"Encourage" is not interchangeable with "forcing".
"Getting into it" is not interchangeable with "getting worried".

I get it. The "translation" could be true, it could also be totally wrong.

If the context here is that we're reading a conversation about an actual rape then fair enough, but if they want us to believe that the situation described in the conversation is descriptive of a rape, they're horribly ignorant.

It just fails to show any "rape culture" because it's not the language that's problematic. Either he's telling the truth and it wasn't a rape, or he's flat out lying about raping her. Showing a conversation and going "look, in this hypothetical situation a guy raped a girl and is lying to his friend about it" than what the hell are we supposed to take from this? That rapists lie to others about raping? That rapists lie to themselves about raping?

Is that what rape culture is then? Rapists not admitting to having raped? If that's the case we have a culture for every crime imaginable.

[Orwell7]

I was nervous, and I had more experienced colleagues, however, my boss "forced" me to go on a meeting, and wanted me to "target" the management.
However, as I was talking, I got more and more comfortable as things went on, so you could say I was "getting worried".

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[the game]

Tell that to the 14 year old outside Baltimore. But yes, rape culture isn't an issue in America by its legal citizens. Just from those who come from 3rd world peasant cultures.

Just because someone gets raped doesn't mean there's a culture that specifically promotes rape.

[Mehrunes]

So the proof of rape culture is a hypothetical conversation between two people that is then twisted into something else by a third party? Top notch evidence right there.

"Talking to a girl" is not interchangeable with "targeting a girl".
"Encourage" is not interchangeable with "forcing".
"Getting into it" is not interchangeable with "getting worried".

I get it. The "translation" could be true, it could also be totally wrong.

If the context here is that we're reading a conversation about an actual rape then fair enough, but if they want us to believe that the situation described in the conversation is descriptive of a rape, they're horribly ignorant.

It just fails to show any "rape culture" because it's not the language that's problematic. Either he's telling the truth and it wasn't a rape, or he's flat out lying about raping her. Showing a conversation and going "look, in this hypothetical situation a guy raped a girl and is lying to his friend about it" than what the hell are we supposed to take from this? That rapists lie to others about raping? That rapists lie to themselves about raping?

Pretty much. And that somehow normalizes rape. Oh shit, I've targeted Revi...

[Rudkobing]

"Rape culture"

You Keep Using That Word, I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means.

[Deleted]

This is why Trump won the election... idiocy like this.

The day we stop this kind of bullshit on the left is the day people will stop moving to the right to escape this shit.

[Docturphil]

The totally "good time" the first man expected to have was aptly autocorrected to "rape."

I just... I don't even...

This has got to be one of the dumbest things I have seen in a long time. I mean seriously... What?

[Noradin]

So the proof of rape culture is a hypothetical conversation between two people that is then twisted into something else by a third party? Top notch evidence right there.

Well maybe they want to tell us that "rape culture" means the act of reinterpreting hypothetical interactions into something else by uninvolved third parties?

[brimdog]

there seems is a lot of projection cumming from feminists that scream about rape culture

[LMuhlen]

I *think* the point they are trying to make is that men that do rape try and justify it to themselves and to others that what they did was ok. So they could slightly change the story into something that sounds ok, but that is hiding an actual rape. And, when changing the story to justify it to themselves, they may come to believe their new version of the events and that could snowball into thinking that it is ok to rape, because what they are doing is not rape. And thus a rape culture eclodes?

So the conversation was a man that did what the auto-correct is saying, but he sees it in his mind as what he is saying.

[Kathandira]

The Thought Police Strike again!

Because what better way to fear monger than to remove context or take something out of it!

This is just how I see it too.

Skillful spin doctors can turn just about any statement around to mean something other than its intended meaning.

[Mayhem]

So the proof of rape culture is a hypothetical conversation between two people that is then twisted into something else by a third party? Top notch evidence right there.




Pretty much. And that somehow normalizes rape. Oh shit, I've targeted Revi...

This and what Revi wrote.

[Zandalarian Paladin]

Absolutely misleading and false. These scenario might happen, but they do not happen frequently enough to deserve the "rape culture" stigma. This is ridiculous.

[zenkai]

Joe Biden, the creepy uncle who puts his hands on woman telling people about rape culture, hilarious.

[Deleted]

The idea here is of course that encouraging a drunk chick to have sex with you, is rape, as she is not actually consenting to it. The rape culture is this culture where men think it's fine to have sex with a drunk chick and encourage her (this means she actually didn't really want to have sex, but being intoxicated you could easily 'convince' her to do it anyway) and that it's not rape. What men should do, is exchange numbers and call the drunk chick a taxi. If she really wanted to have sex with you, she'll call you.

Having sex with a drunk chick that you need to encourage to have sex, is rape. Drunk people have a hard time saying no, and if someone needs encouraging, that really does mean she doesn't want it, but isn't (mentally) strong enough to resist.