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| Topic | "Teach men not to rape" |
| legendary_zell 10/20/19 2:07:31 PM #58: | A lot of people actually don't understand sexual scripts and consent. We're not talking about jump out from behind the bush and drag you into an alley rapists. That's a relatively small group of rapists anyway. Most rapists are known to their victims. We're talking about them rapists that know their victims, that interact with them repeatedly, and that ignore signs or statements withdrawing consent. If you ask people whether rape is okay, even rapists will say no. That doesn't mean anything. But when you start talking to people about specific situations and what is okay and what is not, you will receive some shocking answers and thats where the teaching comes in. Basic actual teaching about how to navigate consent safely would fix a lot of things and save a lot of pain for everyone. Instead, we leave it up to parents who don't wanna talk about it and teens to share info with each other when there's no guarantee they have any idea what they're talking about. --- ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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