the progressive consensus seems to be that any message that, if believed, can be expected to stop Trumpish behavior is necessarily good
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but lots of people can tell when you're lying to them, and if your only way of handling that is angry pedagogical authority it goes poorly
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a lot of things… a concrete example is the abuse of the idea of enthusiastic consent in https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/parenting/wp/2016/09/14/its-not-enough-to-teach-our-teen-sons-about-consent/ …
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obvs the author differs with me but no, "without enthusiastic consent there is no consent" is wrong and not what the idea is for
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it's a gold standard, a behavioral region in which we can be pretty sure we're okay and the less clearly we're in the shakier
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it's absolutely not a bright line outside which everything is rape, and representing it as such is a disservice to her sons
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welp, valid point, but it might depend a lot on what we permit to be called a "typical sex offender"
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like, the phrase conjures a specific image of ravening perversion i have to suspect is mostly about a cultural need for demons
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but probably the statistically typical sex offender is a lot more like, just to pick a random example, Donald Trump
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obvs there's a lot going on there beyond "misunderstanding", but i see no indication that Trump *wants* to be a rapist
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his fantasy is pretty clearly one where everybody consents to his advances because of his irresistible star power
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and he has no concept of women's inner lives and would consider the idea he should consider them beyond ridiculous
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which prevents him from beginning to have a concept of a difference existing between consent and coerced silence
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this is a Good Tweet
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