Woman Uses 'Gilmore Girls' to Make an Important Point About Consent

by Tricia Tongco

''High-profile sexual assault cases involving Brock Turner and more recently, David Becker have sparked a national conversation around rape and consent. In both cases, their victims were unconscious, which seems like a pretty cut and dry description of nonconsensual sex.

It would seem that some are confused about consent. As Suzannah Weiss at Bustle reports, research has shown that men are more likely to say they will coerce a woman into having sex if that action isn’t described as “rape.” Additionally, 18 percent of college students think someone is consenting as long as he or she doesn’t say “no.”

A recent thread of Tweets by writer Mikki Kendall expresses just how easy consent is to grasp, using a scene from the Gilmore Girls to illustrate the concept:..''