What if all consent worked like this?

The everydayfeminism blog imagines, what if all consent worked the way rape culture assumes sexual consent works?

Here's an example:










But go -- read the whole darn thing.

Men (and yes, it's primarily, almost exclusively men) who take the liberties described in this series of illustrations need to become aware of the privilege that they assume entitles them to behave this way.

And it's not going to go away just because symbols are removed.  cf. how expunging the Confederate Flag from respectable public display will end racism in the US.  

Not.