Comments on: Mentally Disabled & Being a Non-consentable Person https://lovemadeofheart.com/blog/mentally-disabled-being-a-non-consentable-person/ Story Consultant Teresa Jade LeYung on Wellness, Themes, Archetypes - Love Made Of Heart ® Mon, 02 Feb 2026 00:11:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Chandra Garsson https://lovemadeofheart.com/blog/mentally-disabled-being-a-non-consentable-person/comment-page-1/#comment-1149 Chandra Garsson Tue, 10 Aug 2010 18:37:13 +0000 http://lovemadeofheart.com/blog/?p=1301#comment-1149 Teresa, I don't know what happened to a more impassioned comment I just submitted on this all-important topic. I don't wish to give up, so I'm trying again. Your own sentence "I told him that the SFGH examiner said Sis is a non-consentable person, meaning her “yes” answers do not qualify as consent. This is similar to a child consenting for sex. It still does not qualify as a real “yes”," says it all. We must become aware as a society, we must demand better more comprehensive legislation. We have only begun to traverse the tip of the iceberg, when it comes to parsing out the complication of our laws concerning sexual assault. Teresa, I don’t know what happened to a more impassioned comment I just submitted on this all-important topic. I don’t wish to give up, so I’m trying again. Your own sentence
“I told him that the SFGH examiner said Sis is a non-consentable person, meaning her “yes” answers do not qualify as consent. This is similar to a child consenting for sex. It still does not qualify as a real “yes”,”
says it all.
We must become aware as a society, we must demand better more comprehensive legislation. We have only begun to traverse the tip of the iceberg, when it comes to parsing out the complication of our laws concerning sexual assault.

]]> By: Chandra Garsson https://lovemadeofheart.com/blog/mentally-disabled-being-a-non-consentable-person/comment-page-1/#comment-1148 Chandra Garsson Tue, 10 Aug 2010 18:24:55 +0000 http://lovemadeofheart.com/blog/?p=1301#comment-1148 "I told him that the SFGH examiner said Sis is a non-consentable person, meaning her “yes” answers do not qualify as consent. This is similar to a child consenting for sex. It still does not qualify as a real “yes”." Oh, Teresa, again my heart goes out to your cousin, to you, to your family. Your own quote that I have used at the beginning of my comment to you says everything. How is it that it is not built into law that a mentally disabled person is comparable to a child when it comes to consent? How can a mentally disabled person even begin to understand how to say no, what to do with feelings of intimidation that are always part of coercion from someone bigger, more powerful, deeper and louder voiced? What to do about her own feelings? She can't! She is utterly vulnerable, and the sooner we parse out the law on all matters of sexual assault the better for all of us as a society. We have only begun to traverse the tip of the iceberg in these matters. “I told him that the SFGH examiner said Sis is a non-consentable person, meaning her “yes” answers do not qualify as consent. This is similar to a child consenting for sex. It still does not qualify as a real “yes”.”

Oh, Teresa, again my heart goes out to your cousin, to you, to your family. Your own quote that I have used at the beginning of my comment to you says everything. How is it that it is not built into law that a mentally disabled person is comparable to a child when it comes to consent? How can a mentally disabled person even begin to understand how to say no, what to do with feelings of intimidation that are always part of coercion from someone bigger, more powerful, deeper and louder voiced? What to do about her own feelings? She can’t! She is utterly vulnerable, and the sooner we parse out the law on all matters of sexual assault the better for all of us as a society. We have only begun to traverse the tip of the iceberg in these matters.

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