Jayanthi explains her experience of sexual violence with African men in a very light-hearted way. In telling her story, Jayanthi did not use any words to prove that she was a party to sexual assault, but she described this experience as “a disturbing version of sexual exploitation” (Bell 36). Bell uses the example of Jayanthi to show how societal pressure can leave a young woman in a vulnerable situation. What if Jayanthi used words like violent, aggressive, or even rape to describe her experience with four African men? It would have made Jayanthi more sympathetic to the people who heard her story. These kinds of words would cause people who heard the story to focus more on the violence and criticize the violence instead of thinking about what events led them to end up in that situation. Exaggerated use of words to describe influence people's minds and alter their opinion on a specific topic. The word described as “scarecrow” creates a terrible and terrible representation in the minds of the public. The word was used by the sheriff to describe the murder of Matt Shepard, Gladwell writes that "When [the sheriff] described the situation to us he told us that [Shepard] was found by a mountain biker, tied to a fence like a scarecrow” (Loffreda 238). This wording caught the public's attention and helped turn Shepard's death into a huge issue among the public. The images created by this word became symbolic of a cause against violence. If the sheriff had not used exaggerated words, perhaps he would not have attracted much attention from the public. Furthermore, people may have seen these issues in a different way part of his identity. People's words also function as a “tipping point” for media reports, which influence people's views much more broadly..