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Beyond ‘no means no’: What most parents aren’t teaching their sons about sexual consent
Washington Post ^ | October 4, 2018 | Samantha Schmidt

Posted on 10/04/2018 10:10:00 AM PDT by GuavaCheesePuff

A mile east from the U.S. Capitol, on the eve of the hearing that would transfix a nation, 17-year-old Hollis Howe sliced his steak as he listened to his mother talk about sexual assault.

Holly Howe, 45, told him about a young patient who recently came into the emergency room where she works as a nurse. The woman had been found outside her apartment door, wearing a dress but no underwear, recalling nothing from the night. Hours later, after sobering up, “she looks at me and she goes, I think something happened,” Holly Howe recalled to her son and husband, Gerred Howe, at the dinner table.

“Do not ever, ever think that because you’re both drinking and you both think that it’s consensual, that it’s necessarily okay,” Holly Howe told her son.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: anewera; gender; nomeansno; sexual; sexualconsent
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1 posted on 10/04/2018 10:10:00 AM PDT by GuavaCheesePuff
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

Reinforcing the narrative with emotional personal stories.


2 posted on 10/04/2018 10:11:35 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Every time a lefty cries "racism", a Trump voter gets his wings.)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

This article at this time means that it’s to imply that Kavanaugh is guilty. Hoping the post goes bankrupt.


3 posted on 10/04/2018 10:11:52 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Cynicism is the only refuge in a world that is determined to eliminate itself.)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff
First, Washington comPost, therefore BHARF!

Second, some good advice:

Gentlemen: Only ever stick it in your wife.

Ladies: Only ever spread 'em for your husband.

You'll thank me later.

4 posted on 10/04/2018 10:12:41 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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5 posted on 10/04/2018 10:13:07 AM PDT by DannyTN
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

Don’t date college girls.


6 posted on 10/04/2018 10:13:26 AM PDT by outpostinmass2
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

An men are criticized for opening the door for a woman. Part and parcel.

Thank you feminists. You reap what you sow.


7 posted on 10/04/2018 10:14:11 AM PDT by dhs12345
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

Excuse me, was that a ‘No’ as some females use as foreplay? Or a No-No like Whoopi would use?


8 posted on 10/04/2018 10:14:14 AM PDT by Lockbox
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To: NorthMountain

Kavanaugh was a virgin through high school and much of his 20s.


9 posted on 10/04/2018 10:14:25 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: NorthMountain

Traditional values such as these, are good guidelines for how to live your life.


10 posted on 10/04/2018 10:14:43 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

Same rules as handling a gun, don’t drink and handle guns don’t drink and handle female body parts. Doing either can ruin your life...


11 posted on 10/04/2018 10:15:16 AM PDT by shawnlaw (Tagline? I don't need no stinking tagline!)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

Demetrius, the test says ... you are not the father.


12 posted on 10/04/2018 10:15:46 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

And what do Moms teach their girls? Screw them and sue them?
How does a blacked out girl remember if they were willing partners?
I would suggest boys capture on camera the before and after shots of
all sex.


13 posted on 10/04/2018 10:16:37 AM PDT by Cottonpatch
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

Hey I got a better idea for parents.

Model good behavior and morals. Teach your children to wait until they get married for sex. Teach them to not allow themselves to get into situations where bad things can happen.


14 posted on 10/04/2018 10:16:37 AM PDT by cyclotic ( Democrats must be politically eviscerated, disemboweled and demolished.)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege
Kavanaugh was a virgin through high school and much of his 20s.

Yep. He followed the advice given above, and it helped expose Blasey-Ford's complete lack of credibility.

15 posted on 10/04/2018 10:18:43 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

What about when the guy says no and the woman yells “sexual assault” out of anger at being rejected?


17 posted on 10/04/2018 10:19:31 AM PDT by TruthBeforeAll
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

I can’t imagine my mother ever having that conversation with me. It wasn’t something that was discussed.


18 posted on 10/04/2018 10:19:54 AM PDT by The people have spoken (Proud member of Hillary's basket of deplorables)
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To: outpostinmass2

Probably don’t date high school and college girls.

It is a huge risk. Huge risk.


19 posted on 10/04/2018 10:21:07 AM PDT by GuavaCheesePuff (I want to thank the Good Lord for making me a Yankee-Old Yankee Stadium (1923-2008))
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

“Do not ever, ever think that because you’re both drinking and you both think that it’s consensual, that it’s necessarily okay,” Holly Howe told her son.


So aside from the peculiar idea that if the woman thinks she’s consenting she isn’t...

Girls also need to understand that if they are substantially drinking, that it is *intentionally* losing control of the situation. That doesn’t mean morally that others should take advantage of the drunk, but it is also true that putting yourself in a situation and then removing your brain from it is extremely unwise if you don’t have a goal there, and devious if you do.


20 posted on 10/04/2018 10:21:13 AM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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