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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.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: anewera; gender; nomeansno; sexual; sexualconsent
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To: ping jockey

Ha!

Phil Bredesen would be too right wing for NJ Democrats.


21 posted on 10/04/2018 10:22:10 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; All
“Do not ever, ever think that because you’re both drinking and you both think that it’s consensual, that it’s necessarily okay,”

Interesting for the Left, after decades of "If it feels good do it", now is becoming puritanical.

But only in a way that disadvantages men and can be used in identity politics to gain power for the Left.

Remember, the left does *not* believe in truth or right or wrong or God.

They only believe in power.

22 posted on 10/04/2018 10:22:45 AM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: outpostinmass2

Don’t date college girls.


If you want to have control over what happens to you, don’t go to a place and then disable your means for control.


23 posted on 10/04/2018 10:22:59 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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To: GuavaCheesePuff

College seems to poison their minds.


24 posted on 10/04/2018 10:23:43 AM PDT by outpostinmass2
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To: GuavaCheesePuff
Democrats will continue to "project." That's part of their strategy and method of operation.

Whatever they are up to, they accuse the other side of doing. That's part of the big lie.

Funny how Divine Providence seems to work against such human machinations, making them look small, foolish, and as vindictive and mean as they really are.

In the long run, Judge Kavanaugh will sit on America's Supreme Court, where he will mete out justice in accordance with his strong and enduring understanding of the Constitution of the United States of America, as written and interpreted in THE FEDERALIST and the voluminous writings, speeches and records of the Constitutional Convention and subsequent writings in accordance with that Constitution.

The result: the very people who have opposed, condemned, persecuted and vilified Judge Kavanaugh will find their own lives, and those of their families, enriched and protected by future opinions and judgments of this good man!

25 posted on 10/04/2018 10:24:19 AM PDT by loveliberty2
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

What happens if the boy regrets it in the morning? What if both of them do?

What if it’s two girls, or two boys, and one of them regrets it? Or a boy and two girls, and one girl regrets but the other approves? This new morality lacks consistency.


26 posted on 10/04/2018 10:24:49 AM PDT by rightwingcrazy
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To: lepton

Don’t date college girls.
If you want to have control over what happens to you, don’t go to a place and then disable your means for control.


True, but only women are excused in this instance.


27 posted on 10/04/2018 10:26:03 AM PDT by outpostinmass2
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To: cyclotic

Sounds reasonable. Problem solved!


28 posted on 10/04/2018 10:27:10 AM PDT by dhs12345
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To: All

Why don’t we ban the Washington post from FR’s news section.


29 posted on 10/04/2018 10:27:49 AM PDT by Revel
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

Parents to sons: “Never go outside the Crazy-Hot line...EVER”


30 posted on 10/04/2018 10:27:50 AM PDT by Zathras
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

Parents to sons: “Never go outside the Crazy-Hot line...EVER”


31 posted on 10/04/2018 10:29:08 AM PDT by Zathras
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

No means No?

Maybe Bezos can tell that to Bill Clinton, the entire Kennedy family, Harvey Weinstein and pretty much every media “executive” in Hollywood and New York, Joe Biden, Jeff Epstein, and an army of Democrat politicians I can’t even remember because there are too many of them.


32 posted on 10/04/2018 10:29:37 AM PDT by Regulator
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To: GuavaCheesePuff
please! ... don't! ... STOP! ...

please! ... don't! ... STOP! ...

please! ... don't! ... STOP! ...

please don't stop! ...

please don't stop! ...

please don't stop! ...

33 posted on 10/04/2018 10:29:43 AM PDT by bankwalker (Immigration without assimilation is an invasion.)
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To: Jeff Chandler

With emotional MADE UP stories.

” Sliced his steak...?” C’mon.


34 posted on 10/04/2018 10:30:53 AM PDT by americas.best.days... ( Donald John Trump has pulled the sword from the stone.)
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To: lepton

If the boy is substantially drinking too, he is not in control either. He would not be soberly and coldly taking advantage of a drunk girl.

Maybe everyone should stop (1) getting blotto drunk or high and (2) fornicating, whether drunk or sober.


35 posted on 10/04/2018 10:30:59 AM PDT by Cecily
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

I have two sons and both of them know, as all men do, that “no”
has many meanings, most of which are distributed within 10-15 points of “maybe”.


36 posted on 10/04/2018 10:32:35 AM PDT by Jim Noble
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

So let me get this straight.

If both parties are drinking and the female is so drunk she can retroactively revoke consent, the male, no matter how drunk must always be held responsible?

This is the new equality?


37 posted on 10/04/2018 10:35:38 AM PDT by Malsua
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

We are somewhere between Decadence and Sexual Chaos right now.

38 posted on 10/04/2018 10:36:43 AM PDT by GraceG ("If I post an AWESOME MEME, STEAL IT! JUST RE-POST IT IN TWO PLACES PLEASE")
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To: loveliberty2
Funny how Divine Providence seems to work against such human machinations, making them look small, foolish, and as vindictive and mean as they really are.

That's right !

39 posted on 10/04/2018 10:37:48 AM PDT by timestax
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

The Neo-marxist Left has attacked the family, Christianity and Christian morality for many decades.

Yet into this vacuum they must insert their own twisted, contradictory, Frankenstein version of the same morality, which of course, is based on politics.


40 posted on 10/04/2018 10:38:35 AM PDT by PGR88
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