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View submission: On what women want
Article kinda goes nowhere, although I suspect that's cos the author herself doesn't have answers (which is kinda refreshing to see nowadays, if so). It does identify a clear problem wherein others once more get to, and indeed have to, decide what women mean for women, as their own words can't be trusted. It highlighted the problems that leads to. It doesn't have any kind of solution though, even an intermediate one. The ending just kind of trails off with a note of support to victims, but nothing for the central issue it raises. We're left just hoping such cases are rare, but as the article itself notes the basic problem of not being able to trust womens' word could extend to all aspects of life and thus be very common. The only thing I'll add is that if others are going to decide, then we at least should ensure that they don't have an axe to grind of their own. So no activists, from either side. One day, for various reasons of which this is only one, society is going to have to rediscover the value of neutrality - instead of, as it often does nowadays, demonizing the very concept as appeasement or collusion. Alternately we just draw a hard line around consent and insist once more that peoples' words are their bonds, however they may have been feeling. Either is fine, but the worst 'solution' would be to let a bunch of agenda pushers decide.
There's nothing here!