UK: Students Walk Out of ‘Patronising’ Sexual Consent Class

Submitted by Mastodon on Mon, 2016-10-03 07:22

Story here. Excerpt:

'The Women’s Officer at the University of York has labelled students “dangerously naive” after they protested the institution first ever sexual consent classes, walking out en mass as they felt “patronised”.

The Union officers argued the “gender neutral” lessons were necessary to protect first-year students’ “wellbeing, physically and mentally”, following the nationwide moral panic concerning a supposed campus “rape crisis”.

However, around a quarter of the 5,000 youngsters summoned defiantly decided to leave the event, arguing that they did not need the lecture or wish to be framed as “potential rapists” by the feminist Women’s Officer.

“We’re Women’s Officers at the University of York. Earlier this year, we were elected after a cross-campus ballot in which we pledged to run consent talks. On Tuesday 27 September, we did just that”, wrote furious Student Union official Lucy Robinson, responding to the protest.'

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This could be the start of something big.

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Submitted by el cid on Mon, 2016-10-03 13:27

“Consent talks propagate the backward message that all women are potential victims and all men potential rapists.”

Why aren't more women complaining about how patronizing this is - a school trying to handicap men's relationship negotiations because women cannot seem to hold their own in the exchange.

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Submitted by MicMac on Mon, 2016-10-03 13:36

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Submitted by Kris on Mon, 2016-10-03 17:34