Why consent is not enough: In a social context where hurting women is sexy, consent is inadequate for sexual freedom and equality. Our lives are shaped by social-sexual norms that coercing women is sexy, women are commodities to be used by men, hurting women is sexy. 1/5
Some problems: 1) “Consent relies upon the presumption that people will choose in their own self-interest, or at least in ways that does not fundamentally violate their humanity”, and that is not always true. People may consent to things that harm themselves or others. 2/5
2) Consent precludes evaluation of the act ethically or politically, and instead puts the “blame” for the rightness or wrongness of the act on the person suffering it. 3/5
3) How much violence can consent legitimate? How much harm, pain, and injury is it acceptable to inflict upon someone before it is no longer justifiable? 4/5
Our society has widespread social-sexual norms of the normalisation of pain, eroticisation of violence, and instrumentalisation of women. We need more than a minimalist principle of consent to challenge these.
feministcurrent.com/2014/06/25/why… 5/5
feministcurrent.com/2014/06/25/why… 5/5
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