People Are Way Too Comfortable With Filming Strangers Without Their Consent
TikTokers who film strangers without their approval usually thrive on the platform. As a result, society has started to normalize this behavior for the sake of entertainment, when, in reality, it's incredibly dehumanizing and disrespectful.
Consent. What does this word make you think of? For me, my mind almost always goes to sex, and I’ll tell you why. In high school, we were taught about safe sex and consent a lot. I remember sitting at an assembly my freshman year, giggling with my friends because the YouTube video they chose to present to us was oddly inappropriate – it was full of puns, awkward roleplay, and jokes – a pretty cringey way to deliver a message on a very sensitive topic. It was brought up again year after year to really ingrain the idea of consensual sex into our minds in school.