Yea it’s called consent. Not every power imbalance is inherently coercive. Society should be punished for being such prudes… they’d probably find they like it.
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tmyakal@infosec.pub 2 weeks agoNeither of them should’ve been punished? He was her boss, and decades older than her. He should’ve kept his pants zipped up.
Canconda@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
OneOrTheOtherDontAskMe@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Not every power imbalance is coercive, but the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES TALKING TO A 21 YEAR OLD STAFFER IS
In case you didn’t consider that one
Gross, dude
Canconda@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
She’s a grown ass woman dude. This whole gen-z infantilization of 20 something year olds is ridiculous.
OneOrTheOtherDontAskMe@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I love that you think it’s a generational thing.
And you call people who call out DRASTIC POWER DYNAMICS as prudes. Dude. Do you remember being 20-22? You know she JUST got the right to drink, right? Even if there was a personal interest in Bill Clinton sexually, the dynamic makes any sexual contact inappropriate while he’s her boss. Don’t tell me you think all those stories of 20-something secretaries sleeping with their boss were all consensual love affairs?
yesman@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It’s suspicious when someone has strong opinions about consent laws. But not as suspicious as someone who’d white-knight fucking Bill Clinton because, wait for it, their concern for young adults being treated with respect.
That math doesn’t add up friend. Who do you think your fooling?
spicehoarder@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Prefrontal Cortex.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
It was the god damn president of the United States of America. That’s a fucking power imbalance if I’ve ever heard one.
AeonFelis@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Not every power imbalance is automatically coercive.
The problem is that power imbalances make it impossible to establish consent:
- The underling has no guarantee that refusing will not result in retribution.
- The superior has no way to know if the underling’s agreement is true consent or if it was out of fear of retribution.
AWistfulNihilist@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
DNC types get super cagey when you admit that Bill Clinton is a serial adulterer who was in an extreme power imbalance relationship with a woman in her 20’s.
I’m glad the party is willingly offering him up as a sacrifice to the republicans to get keep the Epstein probe going. Every time the GOP tries a burying tactic, they truss Bill up like a suckling pig, and I’m fine with that. Dude is and was a creep.