Encouraged? Did you mean "forced"?
A video from former US vice president Joe Biden's campaign for sexual assault prevention has demonstrated how language can easily underplay rape.
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The video, which the former vice president shared from his Twitter account earlier this week, follows a text conversation between two friends after a night out.
"Hey man."
"Yo."
As their debrief unfolds, their phones' autocorrect function steps in to clarify exactly what went on when one of the friends took a woman back to their room.
"Remember that drunk chick I was talking to [autocorrect: targeting] at the party?"
"Yeah she was so wasted."
The video ends with the friend being annoyed with a friend of the woman he'd been speaking tocoming into the room and asking if she was okay.
"Totally shut down a good time [autocorrect: rape]."
The video has been viewed over 200,000 times on YouTube.
Biden, former US president Barack Obama and the White House Council on Women and Girls launched the "It's On Us" campaign against sexual assault in 2014.
The campaign, which has a focus on letting people know when they should intervene in order to help a person out of a potentially unsafe situation, encourages people – particularly men – to take a pledge "not to be a bystander to the problem, but to be a part of the solution".
It has attracted the support of a number of celebrities: Lady Gaga promoted the cause during her performance at the 2016 Oscars, singing alongside survivors of sexual abuse.
In November 2015, Biden wrote an op-ed that appeared in a number of US college newspapers calling for students to be mindful of how they speak about sexual assault.
"We have more to do to change the culture that asks the wrong questions, like why were you there? What were you wearing? Were you drinking?" he wrote.
"We have to ask the right questions—What made him think that he could do what he did without my consent? Why on Earth did no one stop him instead of standing by? What can we do to make sure everyone has the courage to speak up, intervene, prevent and end sexual assault once and for all?"