The It's On Us campaign partnered with CollegeHumor to release a new video last Thursday illustrating how unacceptable the numbers surrounding sexual assault are. While the video is humorous, it also reveals many important truths about sexual assault. One in five women will be sexually assaulted by the time she graduates. You wouldn't put up with a bear in your house hurting 1 in 5 of your friends, so why do we still pretend like sexual assault isn't our problem to address?

We need to start by changing how we address rape culture. When people on my campus talk about how the victim should not have been at that party, this is victim blaming. When my school puts up posters all over the dorms about how to avoid getting raped after a student sexual assault is reported, this is victim blaming. When we tell girls to change what they are wearing, not walk at night, cover their drinks, and carry pepper spray just in case, this is victim blaming.

We still live in a culture that shifts the blame from the perpetrator to the victim. The problem is not the 1 in 5 women who are being sexually assaulted; the problem is the people doing the assaulting. Rape culture has become so ingrained in our society, that people believe rape is inevitable, even normalized. While it's important for anyone to take safety precautions when they go out, we need to stop teaching girls that they could have done something to prevent a rapist. Instead, we need to raise boys and girls to believe that rape and sexual assault are so wrong that they are not even near the scope of acceptable human behavior. The idea sounds so simple, but 1 in 5 college women are still victims. Until everyone makes it their responsibility to change rape culture, these statistics will not change.

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