I am a sexual assault survivor. Chants like "no means no" at VGK games are nothing more than social justice cosplay, and this performance is a very unfunny farce.
Want to make a real difference? Do actual social justice.
Donate to the local women's shelter.
Vote out the GOP/GOP equivalent in your country. (Vote in your local elections, because that's where those fuckers first take root.)
Insist that there be actual, comprehensive, medical fact based sex ed in your school system. Young people have the right to know about their bodies, what healthy sexuality, and what healthy relationships look like. (Sex ed I assure you the Hockey 5 never got.)
*Issues of consent, like power dynamics
*how consent is an ongoing process -- check in early and often
*the fact that nobody is owed sex, EVER
*that consent can be withdrawn at any point in an encounter -- a person's body is their own and they have the right to stop anything that doesn't feel good or feel right for them. (Yes, even when it's your spouse. Yes, even if they're a sex worker.)
*if you are too drunk/high to drive, you are too drunk to consent to sex. You don't have to be reeling drunk to be too drunk. (Everybody in that room was too drunk to consent!)
*"slut shaming" is a tool of oppression and is toxic to both men and women. (EM's allegations can also -- understandably -- be seen an attempt at reputation repair. She was a "good girl" and a good girl could never, ever want to have a group sex encounter, doncha know?)
*never do anything that could be taken as preventing somebody from leaving an encounter. If somebody wants to leave, let them go.
Do anything but trivialize sexual assault down to a chant meant to get in the opposing team's head and smugly pat yourself on the back for having done your good deed.
(And for the record, what happened in that room was not a "no means no" type of event. And Carter Hart was not the ringleader, that was Michael McLeod.)
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