"If only the Supreme Court justices had better sex ed" | Cognoscenti
"He justified today’s ruling removing the bodily autonomy of millions of women by using the writings of a guy who was born in 1609, who had women executed for “witchcraft,” and thought men should be able to rape their wives at will.
Instead imagine the ruling that might have been handed down by nine justices who had K-12 relationships and sexuality education. It’s an education researchers have found not only improves a student’s current and future sexual and relationship health, personal safety and likelihood to stick up for someone else being bullied, but also reduces students’ belief in sexist gender norms and stereotypes, and increases their ability to practice affirmative consent, which is based in a recognition of the right each of us has to control our own bodies.
Am I suggesting that Sam Alito would be a fundamentally different person if he had better sex education? Maybe. Maybe not. I am saying that if more of us had this kind of schooling, we’d be a lot less likely to support or even tolerate would-be leaders who think America was better when women couldn’t have a credit card in their name or make decisions about their own bodies.
Of course, the democratizing social...."
~ J. Friedman
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