Lessons on consent @ Brighton Albion football club

[SmilingandWaving]

Has anyone just listened to this on Women's Hour?

When I heard it introduced I thought what a good idea, how can it not be a good thing to teach young people about consent and what exactly rape is?

Then they started talking about teaching the girls about basically not being a victim.

The young man they had on talked about how it would help lower incidents and stop people crying wolf!

I think I might have to listen again as I just cringed though out. It seems like such a good opportunity to teach young men & women about enthusiastic consent but they seemed to focus on supporting existing stereotypes of women being victims and men being unsuspecting victims of women who cry rape.

Sorry I'm not particularly eloquent this morning. It particularly stuck me as I'd just been reading the thread about Sussex police on here.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/2346102-Well-done-Brighton-and-Hove-Albion-FC

I think that FC's initiative is good.

Didn't hear the radio programme and the non-FC bits it covered.

I don't think the young man understood the meaning of crying wolf.

I agree that the initiative is fantastic.

Some of the things in the interview however seemed to just be supporting existing ideas of women crying rape so the men shouldn't get themselves into those situations and young women should be changing their behavior to protect themselves from rape.

I found it quite troubling.

Mrsmorton did you think interpret it how I did? I'll admit I was only half listening to begin with.