A strange thing about “No Means No” is that it only applies to adults. The more vulnerable members of our society—children—are rarely allowed to own their “no.’ And then somehow we expect them to morph overnight from people who have spent nearly two decades having their boundaries violated by people more powerful than them (adults) to people who are eager to respect other people’s boundaries, even the boundaries of those who are weaker than them (often women, thus the rape prevention connection of this slogan).
