With Covid as with sex, you should never assume consent.

You need to ask, communicate. And respond with empathy if other people’s boundaries are different from your own.
Now on @theworlds50best – @billywagnerwirt on the challenges of reopening during coronavirus. ⠀
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“I found myself in a situation every woman knows only too well: I went along with something that made me deeply uncomfortable, because I wasn’t sure whether I was somehow indebted to him, and because I was worried that my reasons for not wanting proximity would either not be listened to or dismissed outright. I would once again be the unrelaxed stickler, the spoilsport. Something I am not and never wanted to be.”⠀
Photocredits Caroline Prange @CAROLINSKI_BERLINSKI⠀
With Covid as with sex, you should never assume consent.

Now on @theworlds50best – @billywagnerwirt on the challenges of reopening during coronavirus. ⠀
⠀
“I found myself in a situation every woman knows only too well: I went along with something that made me deeply uncomfortable, because I wasn’t sure whether I was somehow indebted to him, and because I was worried that my reasons for not wanting proximity would either not be listened to or dismissed outright. I would once again be the unrelaxed stickler, the spoilsport. Something I am not and never wanted to be.”⠀
Photocredits Caroline Prange @CAROLINSKI_BERLINSKI⠀