Delicious LiveJournal Links for 5-25-2010

[andrewducker]

• Mass Effect movie deal done
  (tags: movies games)
• Stirling builds first council homes since 1985
  And a good thing too.
  (tags: society scotland housing)
• What happened at the end of Flesh and Stone was sexual assault
  (tags: assault sex DrWho)

Comments

[ashfae.livejournal.com]

The assailant has made contact with specifically private areas of the victim's body

I claim the right to define my entire body as a private area. Which is hardly unreasonable, I would think.

[zornhau.livejournal.com]

You're saying there's absolutely no distinction between somebody touching your hand and your groin?

[wildeabandon.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure about hand and groin, but I'd be at least as upset by an unwanted hug as an unwanted grab at my genitals.

[ashfae.livejournal.com]

Yep, just so. I know lots of people to whom that applies. And since I usually welcome hugs, it's an effort for me to remember to get permission first. But the onus is still on me to get permission, not them to put up with me hugging them.

[ashfae.livejournal.com]

That's not the point. The point is that no one is allowed to touch *any* part of my body without my permission; it's *all* a private area. Would I react differently to someone touching my hand by accident as opposed to someone grabbing for my crotch? Yes, I would. But that's my choice, not theirs.