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While taking the recent spate of rape apologists to task and relating some personal shit, Amanda made that most feminist of logical errors.

After all, just because a crime is highly traumatic and psychologically violent, affects 1 in 7 american women and further serves to victimize all women in society as a whole, it doesn’t neccesarily follow that a man can actually get arrrested for such a crime.

From the National Clearing House on Marital and Date Rape, here’s a list of the 30 (I shit you not) states where marital rape is not prosecutable if the victim is unconciousness, or suffering from some other form of incapacitation or coercion that makes her physically unable to consent/put up serious resistance (being drunk or drugged is legally taken as consent in otherwords), during the rape:
ALABAMA, ALASKA, ARKANSAS, CALIFORNIA, CONNECTICUT, HAWAII, IDAHO, ILLINOIS, IOWA, KANSAS, KENTUCKY, LOUISIANA, MAINE, MARYLAND, MICHIGAN, MINNESOTA, MISSISSIPPI, MISSOURI, NEVADA, NEW HAMPSHIRE, OHIO, OKLAHOMA, PENNSYLVANIA, RHODE ISLAND, SOUTH CAROLINA, SOUTH DAKOTA, TENNESSEE, WASHINGTON, WEST VIRGINIA and finally WYOMING.

…Further more, in West Virginia, Iowa, Minnesota, Connecticut and Delaware (which doesn’t give husbands special rights over their wives’ bodies that isn’t had by other men), Acquaintence rape is also an unprosecutable crime if the victim is incapacitated.

Notice that there’s no clear blue/red state distinction to the rapist shielding, there being no actual irreconcilable social or cultural divide between the blue states and the red states other than the one that exists exclusively in repug propaganda. Yes, keeping blue staters hating on red staters as much as red staters hate on blue staters helps the repugs because it stops us all organizing and uniting against our common foe.

Duh.

If I was in charge of the dems’ 50 state strategy (not that I would want to be in charge of any party that would put me in charge of it, I have standards after all), a heavy emphasis on female bodily autonomy combined with a few state referendums designed to clean up these rape loopholes might just start to utilize that 50% of the population that doesn’t own penii (which doesn’t consistently vote dem atm due to democratic party negligence), get them out to the voting booths and make the fundies be ever more obvious with their women hating by coming out in favor for marital and acquaintence rape loopholes because of their warped little excuse for theology.

But that’s just me I guess, never one to think in “practical” terms (Which I suppose would mean making rape ever more legal so as to appeal to the really important 10% of the population that makes up the social conservative “screw you, I got mine” assbag demographic) being such a “single issue” “idealist” and all.