{"id":2879,"date":"2006-11-07T03:55:31","date_gmt":"2006-11-07T10:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/11\/07\/a-remeidal-lesson-in-consent\/"},"modified":"2006-11-07T03:55:31","modified_gmt":"2006-11-07T10:55:31","slug":"a-remedial-lesson-in-consent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=2879","title":{"rendered":"A remedial lesson in consent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve already <a href=\"http:\/\/capitalismbad.blogspot.com\/2006\/10\/for-those-who-doubted-it-was-systemic.html\">mentioned<\/a> that a police officer is on trial for rape.  The defense has an interesting new definition of consent:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mr Gotlieb told a jury in Auckland District Court today that five defense witnesses would be called. He said one witness, Les Gardener, was expected to tell the court the woman suggested sex with him earlier in the evening, before she was allegedly raped by the policeman.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What is the judge doing? Why is that evidence?<\/p>\n<p>For the judges and defense lawyers out there, any woman can say no to sex.  A woman can say no to sex with one man after suggesting sex with another man.  I know that&#8217;s a hard concept to grasp &#8211; but if you have trouble with it I&#8217;m sure I could provide a mallet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve already mentioned that a police officer is on trial for rape. The defense has an interesting new definition of consent: Mr Gotlieb told a jury in Auckland District Court today that five defense witnesses would be called. He said &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=2879\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feminism-sexism-etc","category-rape-intimate-violence-related-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}