I find it almost as creepy to insist that someone didn’t consent to sex when they say they did as it is to insist that someone did consent to sex when they say they didn’t. Yes, one of those may have more far-reaching and harmful consequences, but at the end of the day both rest on the same crucial question: are we going to allow other people to be the authorities on their own internal experiences, or not? And if not, then where does it end?
Absolutely this. I actually find it creepier than the reverse, because it’s not nakedly malicious like the reverse often is: it’s usually couched in paternalistic “protection” rhetoric. It’s so insidious and damaging.
(via funereal-disease)
