Consent: It’s important.
Like, really, really important.
But we hope you already knew that.
What you probably didn’t know, though, is that you can teach the basic principles of sexual consent with a tea analogy.
How about we take this to the next level?
Our newsletter is like a refreshing cocktail (or mocktail) of LGBTQ+ entertainment and pop culture, served up with a side of eye-candy.
The result is the most British thing you will ever lay your eyes on.
Watch below:
https://youtu.be/zXju34Uwuys
PRINCE OF SNARKNESS aka DIVKID
So…is it still OK to dunk your HobNobs or nah????
Bauhaus
@PRINCE OF SNARKNESS aka DIVKID:
It’s okay to dunk your Ding Dong (in your own beaker).
MacAdvisor
I find I drink much more tea than have sex. Comes with getting older I guess.
Juanjo
@MacAdvisor: That does come with age I have found. But truthfully the variety of tea available and the opportunities of enjoying it are often far less expensive and more enjoyable than sex ever was. After all who has ever woken up after drinking tea ad looked at the cup thinking, what was I thinking last night? Or explaining to the tea that no, you really do not want to go to breakfast?
notevenwrong
@Juanjo, it makes me sad that your sex life has been that terrible. Maybe you just haven’t had good lovers yet.
dickrichard
@Juanjo: Hot water steeped with herbs, flowers, fruits and artificial flavors is better than sex? I don’t believe you!
Not that tea isn’t great, but it’s something you can compare to sex. Talk about some fancy red meat or chocolate, but not leaves and hot water.
nemesis9
This is really old. And “the most British thing”? I don’t even know what that means. Queerty sucks.
Ben Stimpson
It’s an excellent piece!
ashken
Found this the other day:
If someone offers you cake and you say, ‘Oh, I’d love some!’, that’s consent.
If someone offers you cake and you don’t really feel like eating it but say, ‘Sure, I’d love some!’, because you don’t want to hurt their feelings, that’s also consent.
If you say, ‘Thanks, but I don’t think so’, and they convince you to change your mind, that’s also consent. It doesn’t matter how many times you said no. It doesn’t matter if your friend was being an obnoxious, guilt-tripping, sulky, passive-aggressive pest. (Well, it matters. It may be a reason to reconsider your friendship. But it’s certainly not a reason to go to the cops.) As long as you were free to refuse the cake without risking some tangible harm, it’s up to you to grow a spine.
If you’re drunk (but sufficiently in control of your faculties to eat cake…), that’s also consent. If you weren’t thinking straight and ate so much cake you were sick the next day, chalk it up as a valuable learning experience.
Cam
More from Britain. The BBC just fired an announcer (Lain Lee) because he said than an anti-gay guest was bigoted.
The BBC apologized and fired him because they didn’t want to offend bigots.
Cam
BBC apologizes to anti-gay bigots and fired host that pointed out that their views are bigoted.
http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2015/nov/16/bbcs-iain-lee-leaves-show-after-condemning-guests-anti-gay-views
MaxH
He wasn’t fired, he still works for the BBC just not presenting that show. Also, the BBC is publicly funded and has to remain impartial. The BBC is rightly accused of being biased towards liberal causes, I’m a liberal and it annoys the hell out of me sometimes too when they preach at you non stop.
Cam
@MaxH:
He was fired, that was his show. And impartiality doesn’t mean being in between two opinions, it means being neutral on opinion.
Bigotry is a factual definition. The definition of bigotry or having a bigoted opinion is not in dispute.
But you gave yourself away when you showed that in your view, not being a bigot is a “Liberal Opinion”.
We get it, you’re a bigot.
Avery Alvarez
Sometimes a cup of tea is just a cup of tea, until SJW’s get a hold of it.
Then it’s a cup of rape.
trell
In addition to asken’s comments, I’d like to add:
If you didn’t eat any cake, but you wanted some, and the nice guy you saw didn’t offer you any, then you tell someone later on that that guy gave you cake, that’s not consent. That’s just wishful thinking. – If you also add that in your story that he gave you cake when you did not want it, that’s also not consent, but still wishful thinking, with a side order of serious mental instability.
Bottom line though is that you never got any cake!