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The Noble RenardStassa Edwards
4/29/16 11:28am
Yeah, it’s a very depressing reminder of how much sexual assault is a “modern” crime. We have literally centuries of case law about what is a regular assault or a regular battery, going back to the earliest recorded cases in the 13th century. But the idea that touching a woman’s body sexually was a distinct crime is horrifyingly a modern invention, and required the passage of new laws, since the old laws simply didn’t understand the behavior as a crime, since baked into the concept was the idea that a woman’s body was the property of her husband’s and the only real crime against such a woman is to place a penis in her vagina without her husband’s consent or if she was a virgin. The idea of bodily autonomy for women is therefore such a “new concept” that even several waves of laws passed over the last century still have major gaps like this, since clueless lawmakers were still focused on the stranger assaulting someone in the dark kind of rape or the idea of vaginal or anal rape as the only kind of rape “possible.”

The best laws out there are the ones who emphasize that any unconsented penetration of any orifice, no matter how slight, is rape, rather than trying to narrowly conform “rape” to the archaic views of the crime.
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  SqarrThe Noble Renard
  4/29/16 11:32am
  Rapists in high places shape the law.
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  benjaminalloverThe Noble Renard
  4/29/16 11:43am
  The idea of bodily autonomy for women is therefore such a “new concept” that even several waves of laws passed over the last century still have major gaps like this, since clueless lawmakers were still focused on the stranger assaulting someone in the dark kind of rape or the idea of vaginal or anal rape as the only kind of rape “possible.”
  
  I say this as someone who has gone through trial for a rape that was “classical” in that I was dragged into the bushes by a stranger. I was asked whether I was married or had a boyfriend early on in every interview, and I assumed this was to determine whether I was a virgin or a little slut. But now that I look back on it, they were really asking who’s body got raped, who else it belonged to that would be aggrieved by the assault. The laws are archaic, but so are the attitudes which inform their enforcement.
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SheeshTheseNamesStassa Edwards
4/29/16 11:23am
What the fuck? So people in this ass-backwards state can rape anyone they want as long as the person is too intoxicated to consent, or just plain unconscious? THIS IS WHY WE NEED FEMINISM. This is why we need a fair representation of women as lawmakers. This is also why we need SMART PEOPLE, and not science deniers, bible thumpers, and misogynists running things.

Fucking men wrote this shit.
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  weebleswobbleSheeshTheseNames
  4/29/16 11:27am
  The second half of your comment is spot on, but to clarify the first half — it is considered rape if the person is unconscious or intoxicated, but rape in that case is defined as vaginal and anal penetration only. This specific case was about oral sex so it was under a different law.
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  SqarrSheeshTheseNames
  4/29/16 11:31am
  “Golly! I’ll just drug her and she won’t be able to say anything! Awesome! High-five, bros! Open season!”
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many bells down wears many stupid hatsStassa Edwards
4/29/16 11:26am
But, you know, they’re really concerned that a guy might put on a dress to go into the ladies’ room and assault someone. Whereupon they’ll do nothing about it anyway, probably, but hey.
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  VivVulpesVulpesmany bells down wears many stupid hats
  4/29/16 11:39am
  This. This seriously had me so pissed when I heard the ruling. People are freaking out about women and children possibly getting raped in a bathroom, when what? It’s not like the lawmakers prosecute it at all down here. My brain is about to explode with anger.
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  many bells down wears many stupid hatsVivVulpesVulpes
  4/29/16 12:01pm
  Yeah I’m betting that the Venn diagram of people who are concerned about “them transgenders” in the bathroom and people who think all of Cosby’s accusers are liars is pretty close to circular.
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schuretteStassa Edwards
4/29/16 11:48am
This is for some reason not reported in international outlets at all but last week three men in Denmark got acquitted of gang raping a woman who was unconscious because of a combination of alcohol and insulin shock (she is diabetic). Reason for the acquittal? She didn’t actively resist this they couldn’t have known she didn’t want it.

I shit you not. That was the defense’s main argument and the judge agreed.

The rage I’m feeling - as a Dane and a goddamn diabetic - is immense.

The world is fucked all over.
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  IWASDARTHVADER's death star canteenschurette
  4/29/16 11:57am
  holy. fuck. :(
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  benjaminalloverschurette
  4/29/16 12:42pm
  Reading that makes me feel physically ill.
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IWASDARTHVADER's death star canteenStassa Edwards
4/29/16 11:19am
its only the morning and i already can’t with today. i hope the girl is able to find support and heal.

GIF

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  PoodletimeIWASDARTHVADER's death star canteen
  4/29/16 11:50am
  That GIF never gets old! ; )
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  IWASDARTHVADER's death star canteenPoodletime
  4/29/16 11:56am
  sometimes it’s the only thing that gets me through.
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LePandaRougeStassa Edwards
4/29/16 11:43am
But, but the transgender folk are why our children aren’t safe.

This article got sent to every single one of my Facebook friends who have posted about that. Our children aren’t safe because you vote for closed minded legistalors and judges who write/ interpret laws in ways allow you children to be violated with no punishment for the person who did it. Your children aren’t safe because you help contribute to a society that de-values women and trivializes sexual violence.

Your children aren’t safe because of your own close minded views and inaction that has led to an epidemic of sexual violence without justice or help for the people who are harmed.
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DerbyDuck42Stassa Edwards
4/29/16 11:26am
*dies of embarrassment from being an Oklahoman*

*very snarky ZombieDuck42 finishes post*

Yeah, there’s proposed legislature, but the Oklahoma Government has bigger fish to fry... Do you know there’s no Ten Commandments monument at the State Capitol, while transsexuals use the bathroom of their “chosen” gender? This will not stand! (And that hurt to write, even in snarky zombie form.)
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Sonic Reducer 151Stassa Edwards
4/29/16 11:24am
Hey, boys will be ~~boys~~ held unaccountable for their actions by the law.
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SideEye3Stassa Edwards
4/29/16 11:52am
That poor girl. She woke up in a hospital to a sexual assault exam, and then went to court where her rapist was found not guilty. Jesus. Trauma after trauma. Kickstarter for her therapy?

I would LOVE to see something like this go to the Supreme Court. I would bet the transcripts from RGB, Sotomayer, and Kagen would be amazing.
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GELLA - LLAPStassa Edwards
4/29/16 11:27am
ohh i clearly see now, if person is incapacitated physically and mentally, anything can be done to you and it would be considered consensually.
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  zu_zuGELLA - LLAP
  4/29/16 11:34am
  What you don’t know can’t hurt you, according to their logic.
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