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Scottish rape laws.
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.
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.
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PLZ EXPLAIN WHO DID THIS AND WHERE THEIR BRAIN WENT.
MY CAPLOCKS DON'T PROPERLY EXPRESS MY RAGE.
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Especially the bit about being BORN with a vagina. What, so post-op transsexuals can't get raped? Nice to know that the only vaginas that count are the ones God gives you.
Keep your religion out of everyone's politics, please. It's bad enough when it stops people from marrying but when it comes down to only natural girls being raped if they scream, fight and get brutally forced into sex, I think you're hitting a new low.
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Brooms (http://www.salon.com/news/feature/1999/05/26/louima/) aren't damaging enough, even though they can cause so much more internal harm. Only a penis can really hurt you.
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Because fuck, even if they were all male, what's with the "men can't get raped" attitude? Are you not a 'real man' if you're raped? Are real men only the ones that were born with the equipment to be able to rape someone, or are the ones that actually do it?
I just have no idea what the hell those people were thinking when they wrote those laws, except maybe that they wanted to be as old-fashioned and idiotic as possible without caring about who gets hurt.
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WHAT. THE. FUCK?
*screams incoherently and throws something* That is... fucking ridiculous on a level I can't even wrap my brain around.
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If nothing else, I hate it for thinking that the default answer to "Do you want to have sex with me?" is a yes. No matter who's asking, who is being asked, or what the circumstances are. It's always yes, unless she says no, and even then, the no doesn't count unless they fight -- or so those laws claim.
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WHAT. THE. FUCK.
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...Unless we're talking invading armies, which I seriously doubt is unlikely to happen since getting up in arms about something is very differently to getting yourself armed and marching off.
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The problem with the Scottish laws is that they're not from the past. They're here. They're now. If someone goes to Scotland and is raped, that's what they'll be up against -- a judge who only counts it as rape if the victim is biologically female, the criminal is biologically male, and she fought with everything she could to get away from him.
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Did they get the low end of the gene pool or what? X__x JEEZ.
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Seriously, though, bullshit. Utterly.
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*awed*
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SO. MUCH. RAGE.
Like FUCK am I not doing SOMETHING about this - even if it's just telling people! Fuck! Most people would ASSUME that the laws here are fucking SANE - I know I did - until they find out otherwise Jesus fucking Christ *HEADSPLODY*
(Er,
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So, purpose of posting this wasn't just to vent on my part. It was to try to get the information out there, so that people will know what the fuck is wrong with the laws and work to fix them.
I like your reaction -- you're acknowledging it's wrong, you're understandably outraged and you plan to do something about it. *nodnod* Good priorities there.
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And they call the Irish insane?
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*STOMPS IN ANGER*
THAT, is /horrible/. Those people making these laws should be fucked up the ass, and not be able to protest because "it's not rape".
And the unconscious bit thingy... MAJOR WTF. Now I'm seeing the whole "saturated rape law" in a while new light, I can undertsand why they have that.
AAAAARGH, I wish I could just fly over there and throttle those people!
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(Anonymous) 2006-09-16 11:32 am (UTC)(link)You might have wanted to do a quick search before you all started foaming at the mouth, or at least ask a Scottish person who actually follows the news.
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It's funny how it's said that humans are so intelligent when they pull crap like that/this.