May 7
Foggen commented on Remember the Good Old Days, When "Rape Used to Mean Rape"?.
Foggen commented on Remember the Good Old Days, When "Rape Used to Mean Rape"?.
It's impossible to prove and impossible to disprove, with an accusation carrying a brutal stigma. When people are castigated for having doubts about rape allegations, any change to the legal meaning of rape should be approached with utmost care.
Dan maintains that people in long term relationships live in a state of "implied consent" where it is permissible to initiate sex without prior verbal consent, and continue unless consent is withdrawn. The statute says that sex is rape if "lack of consent is clearly expressed in words or conduct", which does describe that moment. However, the details of what constitutes "clearly expressed in words or conduct" are murky, and subject to the intricacy of the sexual politics of a given relationship. What if a guy is trying to have sex with his wife and she moves away from him a few times or says something like "you disgust me", but relents and does not resist further? Is that rape? Is language (body or otherwise) that seems crystal clear to the person producing it but ambiguous to an observer enough to make up the difference between a fraught sexual relationship and criminal rape? When it's a matter of strangers a maximalist definition of rape may be appropriate, but between married people things are bound to be a bit more nuanced and complicated.
None of this is to say that the bill should not have passed, just that it's a thornier question than the post and most comments would imply.
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Dan maintains that people in long term relationships live in a state of "implied consent" where it is permissible to initiate sex without prior verbal consent, and continue unless consent is withdrawn. The statute says that sex is rape if "lack of consent is clearly expressed in words or conduct", which does describe that moment. However, the details of what constitutes "clearly expressed in words or conduct" are murky, and subject to the intricacy of the sexual politics of a given relationship. What if a guy is trying to have sex with his wife and she moves away from him a few times or says something like "you disgust me", but relents and does not resist further? Is that rape? Is language (body or otherwise) that seems crystal clear to the person producing it but ambiguous to an observer enough to make up the difference between a fraught sexual relationship and criminal rape? When it's a matter of strangers a maximalist definition of rape may be appropriate, but between married people things are bound to be a bit more nuanced and complicated.
None of this is to say that the bill should not have passed, just that it's a thornier question than the post and most comments would imply.
May 6
Foggen commented on Guns Under Lock and Key Could Now Be Anywhere, Police Say.
Foggen commented on Guns Under Lock and Key Could Now Be Anywhere, Police Say.
BURGLAR STEALS THINGS FILM AT ELEVEN
Apr 30
Foggen commented on Gun-Crazy Alaska: Boy Brother Kills Girl Sister.
Foggen commented on Gun-Crazy Alaska: Boy Brother Kills Girl Sister.
I'm pretty sure I had a mind and will by 8, and an understanding that weapons are dangerous. I reckon this kid had something similar. Did you not have your own will at 8, Mudede? Do you have it now?
Apr 16
Foggen commented on "Pendulous Breasts: A health issue for many ladies".
Foggen commented on "Pendulous Breasts: A health issue for many ladies".
Sounds like a party.
Apr 16
Foggen commented on Watch State Republican Party Chair Kirby Wilbur Shoot Himself in the Foot.
Foggen commented on Watch State Republican Party Chair Kirby Wilbur Shoot Himself in the Foot.
THIS JUST IN REPUBLICAN SELLS GUN AT REPUBLICAN GUN AUCTION WHO COULD HAVE SEEN THIS COMING OH THE HUMANITY
Apr 12
Foggen commented on Another Teenage Girl Takes Her Own Life After Photos of Her Rape Are Distributed Online.
Foggen commented on Another Teenage Girl Takes Her Own Life After Photos of Her Rape Are Distributed Online.
Or maybe, _just maybe_ people who are shown rape photos should turn in the perpetrators and send them to jail.
Jan 31
Foggen commented on "Why Should I Be Paying a Toll for Somebody Else's Bridge?" or Everything You Need to Know About What's Wrong With America.
Foggen commented on "Why Should I Be Paying a Toll for Somebody Else's Bridge?" or Everything You Need to Know About What's Wrong With America.
Denise's question is sound. User tolls on paid-for roads designed to pay for other projects are abominable. If your answer is "well, we all have to pay" then raise collectively paid taxes instead of burdening a specific group because geography makes them vulnerable.
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