Issue date: 2/4/09 Section: News

Media Credit: Jon Eilts Senior sociology major David Strocecker writes down words that come to mind when asked about "proper" with regard to raunch culture Tuesday night as a part of the Social Justice Week. [Click to enlarge]

The topics of feminism and raunch culture were featured Tuesday as part of Texas A&M's Social Justice Week. The event focused on the rising trends of openness, marketability and offensiveness of the sexual human, particularly the effect it has on women.

"I hope [the event] gets students to think about how we consume images, how we consume behaviors and what it does to us as individuals and to us as a society and culture, and be able to be more culturally literate of these issues," said speaker Theresa Survillion, diversity education specialist for the multicultural services. "This is the reality of our generation, so it's time that we talked about it and address these issues."

Some professors have offered extra credit for students who attend the week's events. Such is the case for Peter Munnerlyn, junior international studies major, and his African studies 302 classmates.

"[The extra credit] was the initial reason [I came,] but I really liked how [Amy Roloff] opened up many eyes to how people struggle with disability, but they still live an everyday life. So I decided to come here tonight and see another aspect," Munnerlyn said.

The fact that raunch culture is reaching lower into the age bracket, displaying lack of maturity were all raised by the speaker.

"These issues aren't going to go away, so we have to be able to navigate and think about these things in a different way to process it and change them in the future," Survillion said.

Much of the talk centered on the debate of how the media causes raunch culture.

Steven Orji, a sophomore industrial engineering major, thought the topic was well covered, and agrees that there really is not a singular answer to the central question.

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