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HEATHER KLEIN: Consent isn’t a game — and it’s time young men learned that

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27.07.2025

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Here’s a hard truth every young man needs to hear: No woman truly wants to have sex with four drunk guys at once. Not when she’s sober, not when she’s drunk — and certainly not when the line between consent and coercion is blurred by ego, alcohol, and peer pressure.

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This isn’t about legal technicalities. The Hockey Canada Players’ verdict may have resulted in a not guilty ruling, but let’s not pretend it delivered justice. The question isn’t just whether these men broke the law — it’s whether they failed as decent human beings.

We’ve raised too many boys without teaching them respect, empathy, or boundaries. Locker-room banter has replaced honest conversations. Somewhere along the way, we forgot to say it out loud: women are not........

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