What Happens When

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What Happens When

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On Thursday night I attended the What Happens When performance. I was excited to finally see what this was all about so that I could better help plan for our final banquet. After the show I found it was rather fitting I went shortly after my touch presentation because I think a lot of the show had to do with touch, and also the other senses. 

The show's focus was on sexual assault on college campus, but the purpose of the show was to get the conversation about what really happens, and what really goes on in the volatile hookup culture out there for everyone to be able to discuss. 

The show made me think to the many Wheaton parties I have attended, where people are dancing, or just moving from place to place in tight body packed places, and how much unwanted touching goes on. 


<- It's hard to constantly give off this "DO NOT TOUCH ME" face at parties, it's also not a face that many people will approach to spark up a casual conversation.So where do you find this balance of mutual respect of only being touched when you want? You have the choice of who or who cannot enter your bubble, but sometimes that is violated, and what do you do? How do we as a college campus take note that people have physical barriers, yet sometimes with the combination of alcohol things get mixed up, and people do not read the body language, or listen to the verbal cues, there is just sheerly a lot of miscommunication going on. I think stopping this miscommunication is key, but first similar to the play's purpose we must get the word about sexual assault out there to be recognized.
Another aspect that was brought up in the show was the sexualization of women. The ideas of how women slut shame each other, and how men think because women dress or act a certain way they 'want it.'Sometimes the best way to go is the museum mantra we learned about on Thursday, 'look, don't touch.'

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