Pamela Cross

Well, let me speak more broadly about consent, if that's OK. I think the law is great that says consent has to be affirmative consent. It's not merely the absence of refusal, right? Silence is not consent. The other thing is, as girls, we're raised to be nice. We're fixers. Yeah, we just want it all to be okay. And so we comply. And complying is a lot different from consenting.

Well, let me speak more broadly about consent, if that's OK. I think the law is great that says consent has to be affirmative consent. It's not merely the absence of refusal, right? Silence is not consent. The other thing is, as girls, we're raised to be nice. We're fixers. Yeah, we just want it all to be okay. And so we comply. And complying is a lot different from consenting.

But it can look like it's consenting.

But it can look like it's consenting.

Yeah, you can't be multiply charged for the same act. But these are distinct acts over a period of time.

Yeah, you can't be multiply charged for the same act. But these are distinct acts over a period of time.