Posted on 02/14/2017 4:08:13 PM PST by Starman417
Thank you, Maryland legislature. Your stupidity revived a post I wanted to write a year ago that got overtaken by some much bigger events in 2016. But now thanks to two Maryland Representatives the idiocy of "Affirmative Consent" (AC), aka: The "Yes Means Yes" Law has made its triumphant return. What is that law, you say? Something this stupid must have originated from our Venezuela-in-training state of California! via Robert Stacy McCain:
The new law requires a verbal “yes” at every stage of intimacy, right? Now, let us imagine the situation in which a student says “yes” to X, then says “yes” to Y, but says “no” to Z. In the matter of X and Y, she was enthusiastically consenting. However, when her partner wanted to do Z, she said “no” — and her partner did Z anyway, so that he is now accused of sexual assault. Question: What is Z?So why stop at college students? With no larger issues in the state of Maryland two reps in affluent Montgomery County want to start inflicting this on high school students:Must we pretend ignorance about what is going on among young people nowadays? Are adults supposed to pretend that they don’t know how a porn-saturated hyper-sexualized culture has influenced the appetites, habits and attitudes of hedonistic youth?
Sexual assault is a crime.
Rape is not a school disciplinary infraction, and the attempt by universities to set up a pseudo-judicial system to deal with accusations of sexual assault was always a dubious endeavor. What college administrators have done, in their effort to appease feminists, is to establish phony “courts” where people can be “convicted” of very serious crimes without the due process rights guaranteed under the Constitution.
Notice that California’s new law pertains to a specific category of crime (sexual assault) committed by a specific category of offenders (college students) in a specific place (the college campus). There was apparently no need, in the eyes of California legislators, for new laws changing the standards of proof required to convict someone of theft, robbery or drug possession. Nor does the new California law affect high school students. And a college student accused of rape retains all his constitutional rights, so long as the accusation relates to sex that takes place somewhere outside the campus setting. That is to say, if a student at Cal-Berkeley goes to a Shattuck Avenue bar, where he picks up the waitress who takes him back to her apartment, their intimacies are not regulated by the regime of “affimative consent” so long as (a) the waitress is not also a Cal-Berkeley student and (b) her apartment is not on campus.
To put it as bluntly as possible, the new California law treats college students like an inferior caste. It’s the New Jim Crow, and this law will eventually be challenged in court as a violation of students’ basic constitutional rights.
Two Maryland lawmakers are pushing legislation that would require the state’s public schools to teach a “yes means yes” standard for sexual consent, wading into a national debate as they try to change the way young people think about romantic relationships.Yes, not being content to ruining college life, radical feminists now want to ruin the high school experience as well. Can anyone seriously imagine having a dating experience with AC? Or for this of us whose days of dating someone new are well behind us, can you imagine having had this kind of crud on your mind when you were looking to get to know better someone who you shared an attraction with? This is just another effort of unhappy people seeking to make everyone else as miserable as them. So how does this work in practice? Via Ace, here is one angry feminist's experience with AC as told in NY Mag (censorship mine):Maryland would become only the second state to require public schools to teach affirmative consent if the legislature and Gov. Larry Hogan (R) approve the proposal by Dels. Ariana B. Kelly and Marice Morales, both Montgomery County Democrats. California adopted a similar mandate in 2015, in the wake of rape allegations involving a student at Stanford University who argued that his sexual encounter with an intoxicated young woman was consensual.
A bill sponsored by Kelly and Morales that would require Montgomery County Public Schools to teach affirmative consent in sexual-education classes will be the focus of a hearing Tuesday before the House Ways and Means Committee, which oversees education policy. The two lawmakers say they are drafting a companion piece of legislation that would extend the mandate statewide.
(Excerpt) Read more at floppingaces.net ...
It’s wrong, of course, but getting a guy to stop after V, W, X and Y is a pretty tall order.
How about just say NO when the time comes?
Can you imagine asking “Can I do so and so?” “Yes” “Can I now do so and so?” “yes” Can I now do SO AND SO!!??” “No, go home” :)
PIV is always rape, ok?
Radical Wind - blowing through female outerspace
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3108209/posts
More liberal insanity
Yes; just say No.
The thing that worries me about all of this ‘sex ed’ is that it telegraphs to very young people that they are being *expected* to have sex, or wind up in sexual situations.
I don’t see much sex-ed focused upon the sensible suggestion that, at high school age, one should simply abstain entirely. This used to be a ‘no-brainer’, and we had controls in society, in terms of opinion and ostracization, to discourage dangerous behaviors.
I also wonder how many parents are abdicating their responsibilities to inform their children about sex and healthy conduct, because they figure ‘the schools are doing it’...
I’m a little out of the game but if a guy can do 5 at the same time V, W, X, Y, Z, the fifth one should be a freebie and congratulations are in order.
Maybe Charlie Sheen was right. It’s easier just to pay for it than go through this nonsense.
The question comes up is what to do with Muslims who are accused under this law. Do you still charge them or do you let them go because “it’s their culture” and you don’t want to be accused of being Islamophobic.
“Maybe Charlie Sheen was right. It’s easier just to pay for it than go through this nonsense.”
It’s not just ‘easier’, but guarantees no bogus allegations pop up some day (there are no statute of limitations) that can ruin their career and their life.
Like the Duke lacrosse boys who were ultimately exonerated, your life can easily be turned upside down - even if your parents have the money for a good lawyer. All for a FALSE accusation!
Best practices, of course, are to adhere to the teachings of the Catholic Church by both sexes. God’s way is always for our own good.
And, of course, this must be recorded on videotape. This will allow the lefties to build up their stock of amateur porn.
The NY Magazine piece is the more instructive one, IMO.
Young men are right to run far, far away from these raging lunatic females.
These beyotches announce they consider all males to be rapists, so you’d better tread carefully——but hey, wanna hook up?
Yikes!
Ping.
this is what makes some men resort to sex dolls and porn. just to escape the endless drama and unpredictable instability.
Just as crazy as the Lady who thought a Buzz Saw would be Kinky.
No respect at all....
Not that older to ancient generations didn't engage in sexual activities; however, it wasn't something that most engaged in...especially on a first "date". And these kids do NOT "date", they "hookup", which is just meeting for sexual relations and a lot of the time, they're drunk/have been drinking heavily.
OTOH....this who NANNYSTATE crap, at college, is far worse than the old IN LOCO PARENTIS rules ever were!
Both houses of the Maryland Legislature are a congeries of idiots. DemocRATS of course.
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