Would you pass this university sex and consent quiz?
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EARLIER this year, Australian universities adopted a mandatory online module explaining sex and consent.
Students must get 100 per cent on each quiz in order to complete the module and receive their marks for the semester.
The module, seen by news.com.au, poses a range of scenarios, including whether the involved party is able to consent if they’ve had a lot to drink, the age of sexual consent in each Australian state, and the difference between “active” and “passive” bystanders.
On the radio they said its not a yes unless its a hell yes.
Maybe it's just because I'm not a rapist, but I really don't see how you could get these wrong unless you misread something or clicked the wrong button.
I mean considering the "course" in the source is over an hour long and with those confusing questions, I would call it overkill to the point of being counter productive.
I mean my university just showed us this video and I think it was enough for general purposes
https://youtu.be/oQbei5JGiT8
It probably doesn't filter out rapists either then, does it?
Perfectly fine with these kind of tests. I've had to do plenty about academic honesty. Those were only 5-10 minutes long though. I understand that consent is a more complex topic that academic honesty but I doubt it needs to be an hour long
These questions were easy as fuck. If you can't get these questions right you probably should have to take the class again
Using “words and sounds” well that’s not poorly worded at all
yeah, I feel like there are ways to give consent other than directly saying "I want you to fuck me"
What a shitty test, and honestly I’d feel so talked down to if they wanted me to spend time on this shit. Feels like the questions also just try to cover their bases instead of actually having anything to do with the real world.
Wait a second, its bad if my partner wakes me up with a blowjob? These people must have really vanilla sex lives.
Is there scientific proof that the majority of rapes happen because the perpetrator can't distinguish between giving consent and not giving consent? Isn't it more likely that the person doesn't care either way? If you're able to rape somebody, aren't you also able to lie on a form?
I'm also skeptical about the report that was used to justify this. 300.000 students were offered a survey, only 10 percent answered. Already, there is a skewing, since only those with sufficient motivation would fill it in and submit it. This does not result in a proper random sample, that represents the average student on campus. The survey also didn't have any specification on what the student regarded as sexual assault, meaning that potentially, physical rape could be weighted the same as an inappropriate stare. Finally there was also no effort done, to try and correlate these numbers with complaints or reports to the university or police, nor any verification as to whether any complaints were actually made.
https://cdn.newsapi.com.au/image/v1/e56850098053e285ce431bd2e7d84005?width=650
What is the difference between the first and the third answer? Why is the third one wrong? Is the first answer not using words and sounds?
https://cdn.newsapi.com.au/image/v1/2c41effa43ee648ed5a8a1992a0b1e34?width=650
Oh really, shifting the focus of the conversation is a correct way of dealing with sexual assault? my fucking ass
Not to mention that these questions and answers are written in pretty unprofessional manner. "Intervene in a positive way", ""Yes I want this but not this" and so on"
Maybe I'm just used to a much higher standard of formalism when it comes to exam questions, but to me this kind of wording is just laughably unclear.
The first is one explicit while the third one is vague. The reason they prefer it over #3 is they want to teach kids to seek unambiguous, direct, affirmative consent. There's a chance in the third one that you misinterpret her "sounds" (probably a stand in for a moan or something) as giving a greenlight to sexual activity that they might not actually be comfortable with.
Sounds like a great time for the other party to step in with other 'sounds', like 'no i dont want to have sex'.
I dunno what it is about questionnaires like these and the responses they generate. It's like people suddenly have never encountered "cover your ass" stuff like this.
Are they too restrictive to cover the ways people actually want to interact? Yes. Is it obvious what they're looking for anyway? Still yes.
In my college they had us take some wierd simulation stuff for this. Freshman year was this 90s text adventure game for 3 hours, sophomore was a point and click with early 2000s Sims visuals for 2 hours, junior was a bunch of videos of live people with different branching outcomes for 1.5 hours (more endings than ME3 lol), last year as a senior it was like 20 mins to half an hour of just straight uninteractive video with a quiz at the end lol this next year idk. But depending on your amount of redos the previous years, you get longer ones. I never had to reset and try again since apparently (and this is what one of the sims girls said) *ahem* im "not a doucheschnozzle".
The point is that you don't go ahead just because they haven't said no and that it isn't up to them to say no, instead going ahead only with explicit consent.
The difference is one is direct confirmation that, yes, they want to have sex with you, while the other is not. Basically, if a person told you they were raped and never consented, but the accused defended themselves with the argument that the victim said they wanted it, voicing their consent "in their own way," who would you believe?
I think this question just isn't worded as well as it could be. I don't think it's regarding sexual assault, it's regarding a conversation going where you don't want it to. Either way, yeah, literally any of those answers except for threatening someone are good choices.
The questions provided in the article are all such common sense that I don't really see how someone with a decent understanding of consent would fail.
Well it's not any worse than the Title IX course I have to take yearly for work. Also it's not really hard to understand why the 3rd answer on the 1st question is wrong. Yes "noises" encompasses actually saying yes but it also encompasses vague noises like grunts or mumbling. It could probably be worded differently but whenever it comes to these kinds of tests the correct answer is generally always just "where they explicitly say yes", until it starts bringing up revoking consent then even vague discomfort pretty much throws that convention out the window.
The questions are generally pretty easy and seem obvious, but having worked for a university security department for 6 years now let me tell you that there are an awful lot of students would either struggle with basic interaction or are just assholes. Also cooking, seriously, add water to the mac and cheese before microwaving it you sheltered fucks
This test is the product of racial feminism.
I did this test with a friend, I speculated that if you answer all the questions as being as uptight and polite as possiable you'd never be able to get a wrong answer.
We got 96% on the test.
Interesting enough he told me that if you fail you cannot do the course.
I'm at an Australian university and I've never seen this quiz before ever.
Honestly, the best advice I've ever gotten about consent was that it actually feels really good to hear a girl say that she wants to have sex with you.
My father said they were shown a version of the Tea video in the military.
If you ask like a robot or a fucking David Cage game character, sure it'd kill the mood.
It's important to know exactly what your partner in fuckery wants, you don't just get to dive straight into their asshole because they were happy with other sex acts after all.
Or you could wait for affirmative consent before you decide to touch another person's genitals.
In this situation it's better to ask for permission than forgiveness
Only in Australia.
The word "yes" was not explicitly used so you're going to jail
This is something I've spent way too long thinking about lately. I just don't 'get' the idea that we need to educate men on what is and isn't rape, that consent is something that is horribly misunderstood with men. Is this actually the case? Is there some study that shows that men accidentally rape often enough due to a lack of understanding of consent?
Don't get me wrong, I'm aware that there are cultural ideas present across the western world that relate to a womans autonomy to provide consent, and that's something that needs to be rectified. But do we rectify that by infantilizing the idea of consent? Is there actually a misunderstanding with consent, or is it more relating to some people simply not caring, or having different ideas on a womans right to her own body? These people will not be reached by measures like these what-so-ever.
The ever-popular "tea" video is kind of what started me thinking about all of this. It's a cute, intentionally condescending video that seemingly appeals to no one. The people receptive to the idea of the video agree with it's message inherently, the people who disagree with the video will simply continue to disagree. Everyone else is left feeling extremely patronized.
When I see efforts to "educate" young men on what is and isn't rape, I just feel as if some people are refusing to address the actual root cause of the issue and are instead projecting effort into an idealized version of the problem, where it can be fixed by simply teaching people the right things.
The very wording of it implies she consented, it even essentially says she said yes, just in her own way.
This whole thing is ridiculous, what if she doesn't whip out a consent form with a lawyer present it's not consent?
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