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Why Consent Still Matters: 'No is No', and 'Yes is Yes'!
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Why Consent Still Matters: 'No is No', and 'Yes is Yes'!

There are names flung at women like me. When I was younger, men could hardly make up their minds as to whether I was a cock tease or an easy lay.

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Feb 21, 2017
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“To exercise power costs effort and demands courage. That is why so many fail to assert rights to which they are perfectly entitled - because a right is a kind of power but they are too lazy or too cowardly to exercise it. The virtues which cloak these faults are called patience and forbearance.” (Nietzsche: Human, All too Human)

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