It suck that if you remove “13th-century” from this sentence, it will still be relevant today.
Medieval legal experts inventing the ultimate loophole
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gegil@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Visstix@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Only in countries that still live in the 13th century
FatVegan@leminal.space 2 months ago
Like germany where they claim that you can’t rape someone you’re married to
Taleya@aussie.zone 2 months ago
“If it is a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try and shut that whole thing down”
Todd Akin, 2012
tomenzgg@midwest.social 2 months ago Fun fact: Akin apologized in the aftermath of those comments (while he was running for reëlection, of course). Then, two years later, decided it was worth publicly rescinding that apology.
OwOarchist@pawb.social 2 months ago
And if you didn’t get pregnant, there’s no evidence, so I guess it didn’t happen. (Unless the ruling party doesn’t like that guy.)
So, yeah. Someone friendly with the ruling party can pretty much rape with impunity, as long as there aren’t too many witnesses.
Denixen@feddit.nu 2 months ago
Does enjoying something automatically mean one consented to it? I wonder what analogies one can think of for men to help them understand?
Dookieman12@piefed.social 2 months ago
Do you like steak? Most people do.
Imagine someone strapping you down and force feeding you a steak. Under normal circumstances, where you have complete control of your body, you’d probably enjoy that steak very much. But, in a situation where someone else is controlling your body and forcing it on you, you wouldn’t enjoy eating that steak at all.
Now imagine someone strapping you down and force feeding you literal shit. That’s what being raped is like.
HorreC@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That is a two pain point issue, some of the people spouting this shit want that, they want control over the female and the grubs they made. The other just wanna force someone to take care of them not having to be there when they could be on a beach somewhere lurking on drunk ladies.
hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Considering the context, bi-weekly meeting with ex-wife and kids maybe?
HorreC@lemmy.world 2 months ago
isnt this still the strawman they put up, you cant get pregnant if you didnt want it bullshit?
deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 2 months ago
“the body has a way of just shutting that down”
Or some such nonsense from some senile US senator.
HorreC@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Wasent one of those idiots a fucking medical doctor (god I hope they took his certs).
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 2 months ago
Very recently some judge in Poland claimed that when a bunch of guys raped a girl it wasn’t legally a Gang Rape because they took turns. I kid you not.
DahGangalang@infosec.pub 2 months ago
Wow, Big Woof.
Can you pass a link to that?
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 2 months ago
Looks like it was more complicated than that: https://zywiec.naszemiasto.pl/gwalt-w-pietrzykowicach-protest-przed-sadem-ws-zbyt/ar/c1-3717644
So I knew they sentences they got were crazy low and that one of the guys was a son of a politician but looks like the justification from the judge I heard was just something made up. The appeals court rejected the sentencing but I don’t know what the final outcome was.