It's really not that abnormal for people to maintain friendly relationships with people who have hurt them, especially with a motivation like believing in the guy's political organization. If the woman Assange woke up with sex is claiming rape, she obviously did not "tacitly agree" to the sex. This is why education efforts on sexual consent now focus on phrases like "ask first" and "yes means yes"--because a lot of people are really, really hurt by sex that the other person probably thought they "tacitly agreed" to, to the extent that their experiences can be reasonably described as rape.
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Date: 2010-12-22 11:41 pm (UTC)