“The line between seduction and coercion has shifted, and shifted quickly, over the past few years (the past few months, even). When I was in my 20s, a decade ago, sex was something of a melee. 'No means no' was the only rule, and it was still solidly acceptable in mainstream social circles to bother…”— Lindy West, nytimes.comTagged: Mic Drop, Verbal Cues, Sexual Assault, MeToo, #metoo
“There is a reflexive tendency, when grappling with stories of sexual misconduct like the accusations leveled at Ansari this past weekend — incidents that seem to exist in that vast gray area between assault and a skewed power dynamic — to point out that sexual norms have changed.”— Lindy West, nytimes.comTagged: Mic Drop, Verbal Cues, Sexual Assault, MeToo, #metoo
“In 1975, 42 years before the comedian Aziz Ansari reportedly brought a date home to his apartment and repeatedly tried to initiate sex with her after she told him 'next time' and 'I don’t want to feel forced,' Susan Brownmiller published 'Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape.'”— Lindy West, nytimes.comTagged: Mic Drop, Verbal Cues, Sexual Assault, MeToo, #metoo
“The notion of affirmative consent did not fall from space in October 2017 to confound well-meaning but bumbling men; it was built, loudly and painstakingly and in public, at great personal cost to its proponents, over decades.”— Lindy West, nytimes.comTagged: #metoo, Sexual Harassment, Sexual Misconduct