Posts Tagged ‘Consent as a Felt Sense’

“I said yes. But I feel raped.”

PostSecret.com’s first Sunday Secret posted on November 8th, 2014: I said yes But I feel raped. A friend sent me this with a short note that read, “[Your] consent as felt work and helping society find and comprehend the distinction between consent and permission are important.” I’ve now penned over a dozen thousand words about […]

You might be a rapist if it never occurs to you that rape is something you’re capable of.

perksofbeingaqueermo: You Can Take It Back: Consent as a Felt Sense « Maybe Maimed but Never Harmed “We also consider how our relationship to consent changes when we acknowledge that whether a person actually feels violated is more important than whether they expected to feel violated.” So relate to this. It’s really rewarding to see references to Consent […]

Brainwave [discussing one problem with “Social Justice as Melodrama”]

cool-yubari: maymay: [This post and previous discussion truncated.] since I make clear that they can not actually cripple me with self-doubt, they do everything they can to cripple others with self-doubt. This forces me and mine to defend not only against the infliction of direct challenges to our senses of self, but to (over-)extend ourselves […]

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