So let’s just get one thing straight.
Molestation is a crime and people should get punished for it.
Under no circumstance should anyone ever touch someone in a nasty way and think they can get away with it.
Jail time is in order for the fool who does so.
Naturally, I’m sure our police think so as well.
Sometimes though, a little miscommunication can happen when getting a point across.
Miscommunication Mishaps
Some of you may already have an idea of what I’m talking about.
Especially if you’ve read our previous article on it, but we’ll put you up to speed just in case.
AWARE, a women’s rights group in Singapore, initially brought attention to the anti-molestation campaign posters in a Facebook post.
They claimed that sexual crimes should not have a price placed on it as that could imply that a shorter sentence might be ‘worth it’.
Of course, the police would take note of something like this.
They proceeded to release a statement on 16 November defending the posters, saying it was used as a deterrence method and AWARE misunderstood it.
As mentioned, I’m pretty sure almost no one takes the issue of molestation lightly and knows the seriousness of the crime.
Now that we’ve caught up, let’s move onto the latest update in this situation.
AWARE’s Response On Sunday
The situation continues to spiral further.
AWARE put out another statement regarding the situation on 17 November.
AWARE’S STATEMENT ON THE "OUTRAGE OF MODESTY" POSTERSAWARE posted a brief comment on social media on 14 November about…
Posted by AWARE Singapore on Sunday, 17 November 2019
The post acknowledges that the topic is complex and emotive with nuances that cannot be presented in a single poster.
AWARE also states that they would also like to discuss the negative impact that education materials may have on sexual assault survivors.
While all that is nice and dandy, what confused me the claim that this wasn’t aimed at SPF?
But it’s clearly a post directed at them though?
They also once again state that the poster depicts the act not as wrong but only expensive.
AWARE points out that putting a tag on molestation is near equivalent to putting a price tag for a store item, possibly trivialising said crime.
They do acknowledge, however, that such a poster might work for other crimes such as theft and rioting.
Not All Bad
AWARE doesn’t have only negative things to say, of course.
They’ve acknowledged that the current posters were better than old ones with taglines such as, “Don’t get rubbed the wrong way.”
Yeah, that one was weird, kind of felt like they were blaming the victim.
AWARE said that they are vocal about it because the posters are in public. They’re also open to feedback.
It just kind of feels this whole thing is just a huge misunderstanding, honestly. Hopefully, this blows over soon and nothing too serious comes from it.
Communication is important, guys. Sometimes a simple thing like wording can lead to unintentional blowups.
Lowkey apologising to my editors for any ‘your’ and ‘you’re’ mistakes too.
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