Funny stuff — but also pretty powerful if you imagine the prince hiking up Sleeping Beauty’s and raping her, which (as opposed to Love’s Pure Kiss) is what we’re talking about here. Graphic obtained via: http://www.benningtonvalepress.com/2011/05/canada-court-rules-that-unconscious.html — about a Canadian bill that sets a precedent for this law.
Happy Labor Day Weekend — and here’s one more reason that it’s great to be a Californian!
Some great background on this article comes from this Buzzfeed piece, but let’s cut to the chase:
Our legislature just passed this excellent and groundbreaking piece of legislation (at least in the U.S.) — and HIGH PRAISE to new Senate Majority Leader Kevin DeLeon for sponsoring it — which I hope that the Governor will sign:
The state legislature on Thursday approved a bill that changes standards for college sexual assault policies as well as requiring schools to provide resources for victims and create prevention programs. The bill, if signed by Gov. Jerry Brown, would make California the first U.S. state to enact such a law.
You’ll have to read the rest of the “newsy” part of the story yourself, because I want to focus on the “featurey” last three paragraphs.
If Brown signs the bill into law, the standards could reduce the amount of campus sexual violence, University of California Berkeley student Meghan Warner told BuzzFeed in June.
She said students need more education on consent and recalled talking to men on campus who didn’t know that having sex with a woman who was “blacked-out drunk” is rape.
“Their jaw dropped,” she said. “They had no clue.”
Really? I’ll bet that these young men would understand that it is rape, without needing a primer from their university, if some man orally and anally copulated with them when they were “blacked-out drunk.”
This is your Weekend Open Thread, which also happily reminds you that the OC Labor Federation offers free admission to the Santa Ana Zoo tomorrow (Saturday August 30) from 10-3, along with free food and fun mildly carnival-like activities for the kids. (Apparently, this offer is open to candidates not endorsed by the OC Labor Federation — that, or I’m being set up.) Talk about the new sexual consent legislation, free zoo admission, or anything else you’d like, within reasonable bounds of decency and decorum. Have a good weekend and don’t forget to spend all of your free time clicking through the OJB back pages! (Plus, we’re actually going to publish some pretty cool stuff this weekend, because we have absolutely no sense of timing.)
And here’s something else for you all:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/adambvary/summer-2014-movie-wrap-up#10advw1
Did you forget to go to the movies this summer as well? Then YOU are not entitled to an informed opinion. You’ll have to go ahead with just a regular old opinion. That should do for these purposes.
And here’s something that will require its own story here:
http://blogs.ocweekly.com/navelgazing/2014/08/federal_appeals_court_overturns_dismissal_of_fatal_anaheim_police_shooting_lawsuit.php
What wonderful and well-earned news for Theresa Smith!
Because the Pedroza News Release Reprint Service printed a dead link to the Secretary of State’s list of all State (not local) candidates certified for the November ballot, OJB will grab the rebound and dunk it.
http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/statewide-elections/2014-general/general-certified-list.pdf
Notice is hereby given that a General Election will be held in Orange County on Tuesday, November 4th, 2014.
Are you available and interested in volunteering once more as a poll worker.
While this legislation is good….how much legislating do we really need? My question is this: Why aren’t parents talking to their kids when they are teens about sex and especially what is considered rape? A girl that is blacked out from drugs or alcohol cannot consent to anything, let alone sex. Its the job of parents (not our government) to talk to our kids about these kinds of things. Why are these girls, (young women) drinking alcohol in the first place? Why are the boys drinking alcohol? Please don’t tell me that kids will be kids because that won’t cut it. We have laws about underage drinking for good reason… young adults do not make good decisions, especially when they are drunk. How many of them are killed in car accidents from drinking?
It’s about time the behavior of college students are addressed but it shouldn’t have to be from our government. It starts at home, years before they even think about going to college. Parents need to be parents and teach their kids to respect each other. The number one job of a parent is to raise their kid to become a decent adult.
Reasonable parents DO have the conversation and as Greg said, if they were placed in the situation of being the other party in and situation the decisions suddenly become easy to figure out.
I fully agree Inge, we have too many laws now, we don’t need another one that isn’t going to be obeyed anyway by the morons who become drunk, high, or are just plain stupid. I can’t use the term ignorant here because I don’t believe that for a heart beat. If those same lying young men were to wake up in the morning with “Ralph” spooning them in bed, no would mean NO by damned and there wouldn’t be any need for further discussion.
And for the record de León is an idiot!
I think that this particular law will get the attention of young men (and young women) like few others.
Greg, have you talked with a college student recently? They don’t know who are vice president is!.. let alone any new laws… if they want to reach that age group, I suggest they use social media. If it isn’t on Twitter, Face Book or Instagram… oh and they better hire one of the Kardashians to do the PSA.
Why do you think that those means of communication won’t be tried, Inge? The Governor hasn’t even signed the law yet.
Speaking as a former young man, young men will pay attention to matters of sex to a degree far beyond their willingness to pay attention to matters of politics. The only thing that would get more of their attention would be a ban on beer at any off-campus events.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/ferguson-darren-wilson-donations-shut-down
But DPOC giving $1000 to the political resistance there wouldn’t be prudent….
The OC Weekly’s Gabriel San Ramon deserves credit when he earns it — and he has more than earned it here: http://blogs.ocweekly.com/navelgazing/2014/09/tom_tait_anaheim_mayor.php. Everyone should read this one.
The graphic, unfortunately, doesn’t well represent the story; neither Disney itself, nor the Angels, nor the Republican Establishment, nor the Democratic non-Establishment, is out to bash Tait like a piñata — although for their own purposes some fans of Disney and the Angels, as well as some Democrats and Republicans, are. By and large, how much one wants to bash Tait is directly proportional to how likely one is to dine at the Catch.