‘Yes means yes’ makes no sense to college kids — and other fast takes

Submitted by Mastodon on Tue, 2016-06-21 07:18

Article here. Excerpt:

'Have the proponents of “yes means yes” rules for college kids ever actually, you know, had sex? Harvard grad Molly Roberts says the rules simply aren’t practical. “According to an affirmative consent rule, each step along the way to intercourse requires a question and a positive answer,” Roberts writes in The Washington Post. “Can I kiss you? Can I touch your breast? Can I put my fingers there, or my — well, you get the point. If only we college students and recent graduates did approach sex with that kind of openness and clear communication. But have you ever been 21?” More should be done to protect women on campus, she says, but “affirmative consent policies create problems of their own.”'

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It defines more behavior as criminal, but does that really protect women? Seems to me it just turns more men into criminals without offering added protection for women.

And the whole consent issue would be simple if women did just say "yes" or "no"--but most women don't. Because then they would be held equally responsible for the sex occurring, and most women want to avoid that responsibility. They just want it to happen and to hold the man accountable for the sex. That way, if they get pregnant, they can blame the man for getting them pregnant. A lot of social policies assume sex is something men do to women--not a shared act.

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Submitted by el cid on Tue, 2016-06-21 13:56