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17 May, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Talking about consent is not enough. Knowledge about consent is necessary but not sufficient, for preventing sexual assault. By Ahona Guha, March 8 2021. smh.com.au/national/talki… 1/4
"a significant majority of men who sexually victimise women have some understanding that they are breaching boundaries […] Perpetrators often know that consent has not been given, but ignore this.” 2/4
Sexual assault is not a crisis of a lack of knowledge about consent, but a crisis of *ignoring consent*. We need wider, more frequent community conversations regarding consent. “We need to talk about the entitlement that some boys and men feel to women’s bodies and to sex" 3/4
“We need to talk about the entitlement that some boys and men feel to women’s bodies and to sex whenever they want it, entitlement to seeking what they want and saying what they want without stopping to regard the receiving party" smh.com.au/national/talki… 4/4

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14 May
Consenting to touch I didn’t want: One woman’s exploration of how often women give ‘empty consent’ to touch by men they don’t really want or feel ambivalent about, e.g. because fear something worse. nytimes.com/2021/03/31/mag… 1/4
Affirmative consent laws are valuable, but are implemented in a world in which vast numbers of people (women) are conditioned from childhood to consent to touch we don’t want. 2/4
Story of a "cuddle party", with explicit norms of affirmative consent. And how even in this context, women’s internalised compliance can mean that they agree to touch without a genuine assessment of their own desires 3/4
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14 May
Why "consent" doesn’t stand a chance against porn culture. By Melinda Tankard Reist. abc.net.au/religion/conse… 1/5
The porn industry is a mammoth dispenser of sexualised violence and misogyny; it is the world’s most powerful sexual groomer. […] the porn industry takes pre-existing harmful codes of masculinity and entitlement and turbocharges them. 2/5
The girls’ and young women’s testimonies from the Sydney petition collected by Chanel Contos provide accounts of young men ignoring consent or of forcing something close enough to consent to give the perpetrator plausible deniability. 3/5
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12 Apr
A feminist intersectional approach to engaging men in violence prevention 1/7: Men in different social locations have differential access to social resources and social status. Are privileged on some axes of inequality (including gender) and disadvantaged on others
2/7: Ethnicity and other forms of social difference shape both victimisation and perpetration. E.g., how male perpetrators are treated and viewed is shaped by race/ethnicity. Privileged men’s violence is treated and understood differently from disadvantaged men’s violence
3/7: Violence prevention with *any* group should assume that everyone has culture. Everyone is located in hierarchies of privilege and disadvantage. There are specific cultures of gender and sexuality in every group and community.
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17 Mar
Consent apps are useless, and indeed dangerous. Don’t address how: Consent can be forced or pressured. Capacity to consent can be undermined by alcohol or drugs. Gender power differentials mean women often ‘consent’ to sex they don’t want. 1/3
Consent is a process, not a moment or one-off agreement. Consent should be to each sexual activity, at every step, in sexual interaction. Consent apps don’t allow consent to be withdrawn. Don’t allow participants to change their minds, or consent to some activities but not others
Consent apps are a distraction from the real work of tackling sexual violence. Doing this will require comprehensive, systematic primary prevention strategies. What does this look like? Our Watch’s Change the Story framework is a great place to start. ourwatch.org.au/change-the-sto… 3/3
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15 Mar
Why do we march? To put pressure on governments. To raise community awareness and shape community norms. To inspire each other and build solidarity and momentum for activism. And because social movement advocacy is a key strategy for social change. 1/4
It is feminist activism that placed violence against women on community and policy agendas. Review of VAW policies in 70 countries over four decades finds the existence of a strong, autonomous women’s movement is a critical factor in the prevention of VAW (Htun & Weldon 2012) 2/4
Violence against women: It is *feminist activism*, more than any other factor, which shapes whether governments adopt substantial measures to address violence against women. Analysis of policies in 70 countries over 1975-2005 finds that this is the most important factor. 3/4
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7 Mar
Violence by men against women: Is sustained by cultural and structural factors. Christopher Kilmartin’s book chapter (2015) provides an accessible account. See xyonline.net/sites/xyonline… 1/5
At the top of the pyramid are perpetrators, the minority who are violent towards women. Next, the group of (mostly) men who are the direct facilitators of the violence. They condone, stay silent, don’t intervene. 2/5
Then there are the cultural standard-bearers, people with wide influence and access to large audiences who use this platform to promote gender-based violence. Such as politicians, media commentators. They tap into broadly held cultural attitudes towards women. 3/5
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