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Consent in a Modern World

Manipulating age

Love on record

'He had it coming'
Lily Massey Lily Massey

'He had it coming'

The insurmountable pressures placed on women to look a certain way also plays into this. While refusing pregnancy is a political statement for some, for others it is the bane to the perfect body. Now, we are stuck; we must be producing babies and producing abs.

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Patriarchal thinking
Lily Massey Lily Massey

Patriarchal thinking

The most freeing time of a human’s life, their childhood, is the only place where males can show a true ‘feeling of exuberance’, before eventually succumbing to a ‘rupture’, where ‘that feeling of being loved was gone’. Whether parentally, environmentally, or culturally enforced, ‘masses of boys and men have been programmed…[that at] some point they must be violent, whether psychologically or physically, to prove that they are men’.

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SHAME
Lily Massey Lily Massey

SHAME

Experiencing and sharing are the masters of growth, and only by starting these conversations can we recognise that we are not alone.

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Manipulating age
Lily Massey Lily Massey

Manipulating age

If a woman’s morality is connected with her beauty, how poorly must we treat those deemed to be beyond its grasp?

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Consent in a Modern World
Lily Massey Lily Massey

Consent in a Modern World

It’s what I’m supposed to do though, isn’t it? Is it my fault, because I didn’t say ‘no’?

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