The responses to my last post made it clear that many of you need a crash course in how consent works, or rather, how it DOESN’T WORK, so let’s review a few examples of moments in The Walking Dead where people physically violate others without their consent:
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In season 1 episode 6 Shane corners Lori and shoved her against a wall then proceeds to attempt to force himself onto her while she does literally nothing but protest his advances, to the point of her having scratch to get him off. This is what we call an attempted rape, not “trying to get her to see his perspective.” That is the kind of excuse that rapists use when they can’t accept that they violated a person’s boundaries.
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Negan enslaved people, then forces them to work in terrible conditions under the constant threat of death, with the caveat that if they are struggling too much (such as Sherry who needed medicine for her sister that she couldn’t afford under her assigned job) they have the “option” to sell themselves into being his sex slaves. This is what’s known as an abuse of power, Negan is in a position of authority that inherently makes any sexual relationships between his subjects non-consensual, therefore he is raping them, the same way that American slave-owners used to rape their slaves EVEN IF THOSE SLAVES “consented” YOU LITERALLY CANNOT CONSENT TO SOMEONE WHO HAS ENSLAVED YOU.
Hope this post was informative for those of you who apparently don’t understand how consent works!
Submitted February 19, 2021 at 01:59AM by rydenroll https://ift.tt/2NI8YnX
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