A high school student misreads another's body language as sexual interest and makes an unwanted advance. The speaker argues this isn't miscommunication but assumption and arrogance: you can't infer desire from nonverbal cues, and acting on that presumption without asking is not consent.
2 high schoolers on a date. It's going great. One of them thinks, hey, I can read body language, and I can tell by their body language they want me, and they want me to make a move. So they make a sexual advance on this person. The person did not want it. Could we quickly have a disastrous situation on our hands? Yes or no? Yes. Yes. Was that a miscommunication? No. No. Here's how I can prove it was not a miscommunication. They never gave the person a chance to communicate. Can't be a miscommunication if I'm assuming. Notice the huge difference. Body language relies on 2 things: assumption and arrogance. The assumption that I can tell by your body language what you want me to do, how you want me to do it. The arrogance that I have the right to do it to you without any confirmation whatsoever.
