Me, in piece about consent on AlterNet: “If you know someone well and have kissed them a lot, you can probably read their body language pretty well…” “They’d been dating for a while at that point, and she’d made her interest in him clear, so it’s not unreasonable to think he was able to read her body language.”
Commenters: “What’s wrong with reading body language?” “Making verbal communication the only acceptable or exclusive way of consent is BS.” “+1 for notorized consent forms.” “My wife says it spoils the mood if I ask for things.”
Why, oh why, do I read the comments?
It’s only a small minority of people that actually read an entire article before commenting. This example sums it up pretty well: http://www.neatorama.com/2011/04/28/did-you-read-the-article/ It took until around the 100th person commenting to prove they’d actually read the final line of the article. You might want to try this sometime so you can easily filter out people who aren’t reading for comprehension.