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...subject matter as well as the importance of the message all the newly minted freshmen take back to their dorms after the event. In both categories, unfortunately, the program falls short. Sex Signals points incoming freshmen in the wrong direction by how casually it treats both sexual activity and rape, by the amount of sex it implies is occurring on campus, and by failing to adequately address personal responsibility to make smart choices...
...Rape isn’t funny. Twenty to 25 percent of women will be raped or will have an attempt to rape them made during their college years. Eighty-four Harvard students utilized the Harvard Office of Sexual Prevention and Response after being raped, sexually assaulted, or experiencing relationship violence in the 2007-2008 academic year. The statistics are staggering and the problem heartbreaking. Sex Signals trivializes this issue by treating it like a joke...
...about sex yelling, “We see what we want and we go get it! Yeah?,” a male freshman in the crowd yelled back, “Fuck yeah!” to cheers and laughs throughout the audience. Does dialogue like this truly discourage rape...
...During the last third of the show, the issue of sexual assault is addressed directly, yet still unsatisfactorily. An ambiguous scene is described where drunken sexual intercourse takes place. At the end of the scene, the freshman audience is asked whether the man clearly raped the woman. A few hands go up around the room. The audience is then asked whether the man clearly did not rape the woman. Again, a few hands go up around the room. When the audience is asked if it is unclear whether rape occurred in this vague scene, the vast majority of students...
...Ultimately, Sex Signals squanders the opportunity that the College has to begin a frank, informed discussion about how serious the issue of sexual assault is and what we can do to prevent it. It leaves students with jokes about sex and the attitudes that fuel rape as well as the impression that much more sex is happening at the College than truly is. At the end of the performance, the actors emphasize that something “magical” can happen when the lessons of the show are followed. They then proceed to jokingly discuss different sexual activities that...