Monday, August 10, 2015
The Sexual Train Wreck Behind "Yes Means Yes" | RealClearPolitics
Do we really need this?
Will it lead to having attorney chaperons?...
Will it lead to having attorney chaperons?...
On the Real Clear Politics website, Heather WilhelmAUTHOR offers info and opinions:
"The so-called ‘yes means yes’ standard,” Reuters reports, 'defines sexual consent between people as an affirmative, conscious, and voluntary understanding to engage in sexual activity.' Anything that falls outside of the nebulous concept of 'consent'—a gratuitous touch on the elbow, perhaps, as opposed to the formally agreed-upon nudge of the right lower kneecap—could be labeled sexual assault.
If this sounds clear as mud to you, it’s probably because—congratulations!—you’re not yet certifiably insane. 'Yes means yes' laws, pioneered in California last September, aim to fight the widely reported and highly dubious 'epidemic' of campus sexual assault. The laws are also, apparently, the hottest new bad idea around. The University of Minnesota is currently considering implementation of 'yes means yes' rules; lawmakers in over a dozen states have proposed similar laws."
