Yes, I believe through consent education, it becomes much more cut and dry. You have to remember that in generations past, older men told younger men, "If she says no the first time (for a date, sex, or really anything), keep asking." In other words, wear her down; she doesn't know that she wants you, but she really does. In the end you can "win her over". That is and was extremely harmful messaging and it lingers.

I think by spreading the message loud and clear that anything other than an enthusiastic YES! is a no, will help take out any ambiguity for men. It will help men to understand that if she's just laying there, it's a no. If her yes is hesitant, it's a no.

Yes there are the men who attack unknown women in back alleys, and I don't know that we'll ever fully stop that extremely aberrant behavior, but I think the majority of rapes are rapes by someone we know. Someone who won't take no for an answer. Someone who may have been told that no does not mean no, especially if you want it to mean yes.

So I think that while we certainly need to address entitlement, anger, and warped masculinity, we can address more quickly the idea of consent and what it means when you find yourself alone with a woman.