22 2022 ARC3 SURVEY FINDINGS Peer Responses The following is a list of reactions that people sometimes have when responding to a person who has experienced sexual misconduct. If you experienced sexual misconduct and you told your friends/peers, how would they respond? Participants were asked how their friends would respond if they were told about experiences of sexual misconduct. While the responses from participants are mostly positive in response to their peers, the answers highlight limited response of connecting friends to support resources and information. These responses were approximately 40-45% neutral or disagreed that their friends would provide information, options, and how to cope with the experience. When questions regarding common victim blaming responses. Over 85% of participants indicated that their friends would not blame, avoid, or treat you differently based on sharing their experiences. Reassure you that you are a good person. Comfort you by telling you it would be all right or by holding you. Provide information and discuss options. Help you get information of any kind about coping with the experience. Tell you that you were irresponsible or not cautious enough. Treat you differently in some way than before you told them that made you uncomfortable. Tell you that you could have done more to prevent this experience from occurring. Avoid talking to you or spending time with you. Treat you as if you were a child or somehow incompetent. Make you feel like you didn’t know how to take care of yourself. % Disagree or Strongly disagree %Agree or Strongly agree 15% 77% 22% 61% 26% 49% 26% 52% 89% 2% 88% 3% 87% 3% 94% 0% 92% 2% 92% 2%
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