April 27 2021, 2:33 pm | BY Ricki Green | 6 Comments
Independent creative agency The Royals has joined forces with feminist author Clementine Ford to end all the confusion surrounding consent and… milkshakes.
The social video, titled ‘Consent is a Conversation’, is shot in a diner – a not-so-subtle nod to the government’s recent Respect Matters campaign.
Today, the video launches via Clementine Ford’s Instagram profile and aims to open up the conversation about consent in a way that’s uncomplicated and free from milky metaphors.
Says Ford: “We don’t need metaphors or complicated analogies to explain consent. In fact, the easiest way to understand consent is to talk about it. It’s a dialogue between sexual partners that prioritises respect and wellbeing, and this shouldn’t be hard for people to understand. Consent is an ongoing conversation, and we hope that by doing this we encourage people to start having that conversation.”
Australian govt s bizarre sex ed campaign faces heat from gender rights group Details 20 April 2021
The Australian government s new sex education campaign has came under fire for using metaphors such as smearing milkshake on someone s face to depict consent and abuse. The campaign includes a series of informational videos posted on the online educational portal The Good Society, and has copped flak for being too confusing without addressing the problem of sexual consent and abuse directly. The Good Society, an online resource for teaching respectful relationships education in Australian schools and is a key part of the Australian government s Respect Matters programme. The website contains playlists of media content, videos, animations, podcasts, stories, slides, PDFs, and web pages that can be viewed in the classroom or assigned to students for individual study.
The campaign, called The Good Society, was heavily criticised on Monday for the âconfusingâ video, where a young woman smears a milkshake over a young manâs face while telling him to âdrink it allâ.
The video, which aims to teach school children about sex consent, also draws comparisons between âgetting pizzaâ and âcan I touch your butt?â
âWhen a person imposes their will on you, itâs as if they were moving the âYes lineâ over the âMaybe zoneâ or the âEnd zoneâ, ignoring your rich inner world,â the video voiceover says. âAnd thatâs not good.â
This is the government s new video to educate teenagers on consent. and honestly, I think I actually know less about the issue after watching this. What s going on?
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The Government’s Terrible Milkshake Ad Misses The Point Of Consent Education
Young people in Australia right now are looking for a comprehensive understanding of consent and sexual assault. These videos do not provide that.
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When a government authority shares information, it should be appropriate, tested and reliable. However, as we’ve seen in recent years, the Australian government has a poor track record regarding resourcing information about consent and respectful relationships.
We’ve seen un-actioned national plans, gutted community services to provide consent teaching and training, and a very haphazard promotion of primary prevention materials. There have been endless promotional materials. While we’ve had the answers for a long time, the series of sexual assault allegations within parliament have renewed a focus on conversations around gender equ