Sep. 15th, 2006

fickle: (fuck off and die)
Read them.

Trust me, I couldn't phrase it anywhere near as well as they have.

But just to convince you to click, here are some choice excerpts:

In Scotland, it [rape] can only be committed by males upon females, which appears to mean by persons biologically male at birth upon persons born biologically female.

Translation: If you're a guy, tough luck. You can't accuse anyone of raping you, because it couldn't have happened.

But where the accused has no involvement at all in producing the victim’s state of insensibility and where he happens upon her by chance and has sexual intercourse with her when she is totally unaware of his presence and intentions, then it cannot be established that she demonstrated unwillingness. Therefore, it cannot be shown that any force was used to overcome unwillingness which never existed in fact; therefore, there is no rape.

Translation: If you find an unconscious girl and fuck her, it's not rape.

What have come to be known graphically as “oral sex” and “anal sex” do
not qualify as rape and digital penetration is not sufficient to constitute rape.


Translation: Rape = penis into vagina with lots of violence or threats thereof. Nothing else counts. And that is why guys can't get raped -- they don't have vaginas! Wow. Groundbreaking theory there.

Just read it. I'm hissing, snarling and wanting to shake the fucking idiots who came up with those definitions, so I think this is about as much commentary as I can dish out.

Edit:

Lysander [PWNED, care of Fickle] says:
And then there's the added bonus of the fact that rapists were allowed to cross-examine their victims in court and use any and every bit of info they had on prior sexual history until the law finally was passed to stop that after a girl committed suicide after being cross-examined by her rapist for five days straight during which he wore the same outfit he was wearing when he assaulted her and made her hold up the panties she was wearing at the time for the court. Repeatedly. I hate them all and want them to die.
fickle: (I will be heard credit wickedchild_md)
Summary post.

Basically, it boils to down to a form letter, which you can fill out, edit and send off. Why? Because the WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization) is trying to get the rules changed to "give broadcasters, cablecasters and potentially webcasting companies 50 years of copyright-like rights over anything they transmit".

That means your original fiction, whether it's posted on Geocities, Livejournal or your own site could be claimed by the company hosting it. Your vids. Your icons, your layouts -- anything you post in the public forum.

There's another post here delineating it a little more clearly, but you really only need to read one of them to get to the letter to fill out.

This affects all of us, since I assume you've got a journalfen account if you're reading this. So stop reading and protest.

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