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| Ok, so you are worried about consent? | ||||||||||||
| Let me see, if your neighbor's are vegetarians, does that mean that you do not barbecue ribs during the summer? | ||||||||||||
| Do you refrain from reading The Satanic Verses on a train for fear of offending the Muslim in the next aisle?� (you don't know if he's a Muslim or not but he could be and suffer a terrible religious trauma!) | ||||||||||||
| Do you insist that the local bookstore not carry anything that might offend the poor stupid Xtians? | ||||||||||||
| Should I wear a hat in the restaurant so the moronic deer hunter and his imbecile offspring in the next booth will be more comfortable? | ||||||||||||
| Maybe white and black men and women shouldn't go out in public together.� After all, racists have tender feelings and it might bring out a memory of some horrible incident when a person of another race actually spoke to them many years ago and they still have nightmares about it. | ||||||||||||
| And God forbid that a Jew should wear a yamulka in public because that would offend the xtians, the Muslims and the local Nazis all at the same time! | ||||||||||||
| When are you folks going to get it through your skulls that you offend people every day merely by living?� You don't ask consent of animal rights people to wear leather.� You don't ask vegetarians for their consent to eat a hamburger.� And unless there is something really wrong with you don't ask consent of the person in the next aisle of what you should read on the commuter train. | ||||||||||||
| The ONLY person who has any consent in play is my partner and if anyone objects to what we are doing that is their problem, not ours. | ||||||||||||