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Sexual Assault Isn't Bad 2017-06-21 06:52:30 Post No. 130830017
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I just found something I wrote in 2014 about sexual assault. I figured you guys would appreciate it. Also, Sexual Assault General?
>Want to hear a pun? What did the drunk girl say to the guy who just fucked her? “You sexually assaulted me!”
>Don't think it's funny. Fine. But it is a pun and most certainly a joke. Up until recently, I had only been aware of one definition of sexual assault: A sexual act (penetration, fellatio, cunnilingus, groping, etc) that was clearly unwanted by the recipient. It was a good definition because it yielded the following rule: Sexual assault is bad.
>Now as “awareness” of sexual assault becomes increasingly ubiquitous – appearing on social media, in college newspapers, and even in the tax-funded “Tonight” program at UW-Madison – this good definition is continually “corrected” to the legalese definition of sexual assault. As one college article states it, sexual assault is sexual activity without consent, where “consent is freely and enthusiastically given, mutually understandable, not given under the influence of drugs or alcohol, not ambiguous is any way, and includes the presence of a yes (not the absence of a no).1
>Sleep with a slightly tipsy, long-time friend? That's sexual assault. Hopping in bed with a coy girl who has been resonating with you all night? Better ask permission. I am literally shaking because my girlfriend wasn't totally “enthusiastic” in her consent last night. If this is the definition of sexual assault, then sexual assault isn't bad.
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>But I am not allowed to say “sexual assault is fine.” In a bizarre moment from same article as above, a friend of the author realizes he's legally committed sexual assault: “He looked down for a second and spoke slowly. 'But if that’s assault, then that means that I’ve assaulted someone before.' He seemed confused and shocked and a bit sad. So was I.”2 This is grade school stuff. He regretted his actions only when they had been labeled “sexual assault”? If he thought what he had done was okay before, why should labeling it change his opinion?
>It should not. Labels and laws are not morality. Just because this backwards definition of sexual assault has been pushed into law does not mean it's right. And if proponents of sexual assault “awareness” keep reverse-bullying with the legalese definition of sexual assault, the movement and those who tout it will increasingly draw my resentment – and should draw yours too.
>Want to talk about sexual assault? Then tell me how people mistreat women. I know plenty of women who do just that, and I listen. All other conversation – the ones that rely on the legal definition of sexual assault – will continue to be the adult equivalent of the “who's had more emotional hardship” contests that kids love so much in junior high. These are the same “revolutionaries” Joan Didion saw in 1972: “These are converts who want not a revolution but 'romance,' who believe not in the oppression of women but in their own chances for a new life in exactly the mold of their old life. In certain ways they tell us sadder things about what the culture has done to them than the theorists did, and they also tell us, I suspect, that the women's moevment is no longer a cause but a symptom.”3
>You still don't think it's funny? You're right, it's not.
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tl;dr
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1 Dowd-Lukesh, Summer. “The Battle for Consent Culture is Not Over.” Claremont Portside. May 29th, 2014. Web.
2 Dowd-Lukesh, Summer.
3 Didion, Joan. “The Women's Movement.” New York Times. July 30, 1972.
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Fair enough. Check out Joan Didion's "The Women's Movement" though. Femnazis have trouble with her because she's heralded as one of the great female journalists but is completely against modern feminism.
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