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[–] 2 points 4 months ago* (1 child)

And don't tell me it's not really happening

Then I suppose this is the end of the discussion.

I guess good luck not accidentally being a rapist? Or whatever?

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  • [–] -1 points 4 months ago

    See, there you go implying that I would blatantly and severely violate someone's consent. That's the same hyperbolic strawman that everyone else seems to use whenever I point out the issue with inconsistent messaging and mixed signals.

    I didn't say "forcing yourself on someone who's telling you no doesn't violate consent." I said "if you expect someone to magically know when you're consenting without actually telling them, then you want them to be a mindreader; especially if you also insist that consent needs to be explicitly stated every time."

    Those seem like mutually exclusive expectations, so why am I being gaslit that both are valid and that I'm the problem for not intuiting a way past the fundamental inconsistency?

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