I’ve always heard it as an alternative to yanking, borrowing or using (as in userpics on LJ), thieving, or, in gamer terms, killing or mugging.

That said, the “anti-consent” thing does pretty much explicitly say what the group was ACTUALLY about, because that doesn’t really have any other meanings.

I’ve been mulling over this a lot the last couple of days, because I was at the smallest of the UNSW colleges in the early 90’s, and I was one of the ones who let it define their whole life at the time. Hell, I met my partner there, as well as those who remain our core group of friends. But there are several memories, and questions, that are rising to the surface:
- I remember that we always regarded the Sydney Uni colleges as being of a different, and suspect order: church run, private school filled, spoilt and, yes, a bit scary.
- Our Head of College was a feminist (I remember once she got an invitation from the Catholic college addressed to “Dr & Mrs”, and she wrote back that she was delighted to see they were so supportive of same sex couples, but she and her spouse would not be attending), and I think I only appreciate now what a massive difference it made to our whole college culture. And yet -
- I remember there being an “eternal vigilence” feeling about the need to keep pushing back at signs of rugger-bugger (yes, we used that term too) culture, and the need to keep stressing that bigoted behaviour wouldn’t be tolerated. So we knew we weren’t free of it in our place either.
- The year I left those of us who had been there a while were worried by the seemingly greater influx of guys from rural boarding schools changing the dynamic. Which makes me think by the time these men get to Uni they’re already broken.
- A couple of them took a set against me for no earthly reason I can discern, except that I generally used to object to any really sexist stuff they did (bear in mind that I was waaaay less bolshie then than I am now) and proceeded to tear me to shreads in the college yearbook. Which says an awful lot about this spoilt child complex we’re seeing so much of.

Sorry for the long. I may be back when/if I construct some conclusions.

Small point: Pru Goward is MP/Oppn Minister in the NSW state parliament, not the Fed one.

Sydney Uni is right on the outskirts of the inner city, an area people are likely to warn you about because of street crime etc, but seems to me you are at more danger of harrassment behind the sandstone walls than outside them ….
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Also, this is awful enough that even my wow guild, who are generally pretty terribad at any kind of inclusiveness are talking about how incredibly unacceptable it is. Ok, I am going to go and vent somewhere.

gah.