While affirmative consent shouldn't be a hard concept to grasp, there are still people out there who either don't understand it, or pretend not to. Just to review: Consent can be revoked at anytime. Sex without consent is rape. Full stop.
But just in case you were somehow still curious, here are 10 tweets that perfectly nail how consent works:
1. This tweet that's gone viral for its truth.
2. This good point about how consent also matters in casual conversation.
3. This #truth about straight men.
4. This point that shuts down the myth of "Hard to Get"
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5. This genius analogy about money.
6. This proof that dogs are better than some men.
7. And this other good point about dogs.
8. This tweet about why it's important for kids to know they're not entitled to anyone's time or space.
9. This realisation that if Austin Powers could understand consent, you can too.
10. This point explaining why it's a systemic problem.
Carina Hsieh, MPH, is the deputy features editor of Women’s Health. She has more than a decade’s worth of experience working in media and has covered everything from beauty, fashion, travel, lifestyle, pets, to health.
She began her career as an intern in the fashion closet at Cosmopolitan where she worked her way up to Senior Sex & Relationships Editor. While covering women’s health there, she discovered her passion for health service journalism and took a break to get her Masters in Public Health. Post-grad school, she worked as a freelance writer and as The Daily Beast’s first Beauty, Health, and Wellness Reporter.
Carina is an alum of the Fashion Institute of Technology and the Yale School of Public Health. She and her French Bulldog, Bao Bao, split their time between Brooklyn and Connecticut. She enjoys reformer Pilates, (slow) running, and smelling the fancy toiletries in boutique fitness class locker rooms.
