Consent and Intellectualism
Added 2020-11-24 04:32:32 +0000 UTCThe gang is back with new podcasting equipment and a more high-minded ep.
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Liz's total argument about the word "consent" having to do a lot more work for various sex-related things is interesting, how a term gets some kind of cultural and legal legitimacy, and then becomes the go-to umbrella term for a huge variety of things to give those things legitimacy as well. The comparison to the way libertarians try and frame everything as a property crime, because that's the frame they have to understand things brought it home to me. however, as far as people thinking a night of sex is going to lead to a relationship and the other person not thinking that, and then the person feeling like they were made a fool or whatever, I have to say "so what?" That's not an unintended consequence of the sexual revolution. That's just something that happens with anything you go in intending to do one thing and it doesn't turn out how you thought it would. That goes across all kinds of experience. It can't be mapped on to just sex, or blamed on the sexual revolution. Before the sexual revolution, many people forced into marriages thought they'd be happier once they finally got married and weren't, and then they couldn't get divorced, leading to endless bitterness towards each other and their children. These things just aren't connected. It's just expectation versus reality.
JohnG
2021-04-21 19:13:11 +0000 UTC
