like, okay, consent does literally just mean agree. which is what enables this little rhetorical trick. because there's all this cultural emphasis on sexual consent, which is just expressed as consent, a lot of phrases whose intended meanings are "rape is bad" can be taken literally to mean "i should get to agree to everything that happens in my vicinity."
for an example, "i didn't agree to seeing you wear that shirt" is straightforwardly a fucking insane thing for someone to say, but people regularly make use of this trick to make the (functionally identical) statement "i didn't consent to seeing that"
Strongly recommend that people familiarize themselves with the white supremacist concept of "right to comfort" because of how scarily that concept aligns with this behavior
THIS is where the logic comes from that drives misogynistic control of what women wear, how fat people exist in public, how disabled people exist in public, miscontrues kink-related fashion as the same as sex itself, and prevents people breastfeeding their children in clean environments.
Its interesting what demographics are effected most negatively by this huh
There was a recent article by the BBC where someone said she didn't consent to playing in a match against a team which had a trans woman in it and it's like you can drop out of a match at any time. No-one is forcing you to run, it's not a wwii death match, if you are uncomfortable during a match then you can stop. Like it sounds like they beat her team and then she was mad and blamed it on one team member (it's the whole squad which matters not one player).
Like but saying she never consented is fully trying to imply it's rape-like to play football with someone she's bigoted against.
