Mike Domitrz argues that university consent programs teach awareness but skip the skills students actually need. High schoolers learn to ask for consent in class but don't practice it, so they don't use it. Online modules just certify that students read about consent, not that they can do it.
Now people say, well, Mike, how did you get involved with this then? Right? Did you, did you learn this when you were in college? Colleges weren't having this conversation 30 years ago. And if we're being totally transparent, most universities aren't having this in-depth of a conversation nowadays. They're not. They do what, what your campus did also, which is you went online and you made sure you did some stuff online to say you know about these topics and you understand that to make sure you get your courses. And that's where it ends for a lot of campuses. Awareness with no skill is a waste of time. How many agree if you know information that nobody's changing their behavior with, waste of time? Agree that's true? That's true. That's true. I'll prove it to you. Did everybody in high school know that when you think of consent, you're supposed to ask first? Did most people know that? I'm not saying they did it, but had they probably heard it in high school? Yes or no? Yes. And yet we walked on stage and said nobody's asking. So they got all the education over the years saying this is what consent is and nobody did it. Because nobody ever gave them skills.
