It’s The Way You Said It, Boss
Published by Lisa Kansas April 18th, 2008 in Rape, Rights? What rights?So I was just sittin’ at home, relaxing with some online poker and surfing the Blogosphere to occupy the mental space between hands, when on Feministing I came across this:
After the highest court of Maryland reheard the case which made the horrifying ruling that a woman cannot be raped once she has consented to sex, the court has overturned the decision and broadened the definition of rape…
Oh good, I thought to myself, feeling the momentary warm glow of faith restored in my fellow human beings. I did remember that case, of course, and how totally unbelievable it seemed to me at the time–you can’t actually give someone your BODY, y’know, of course it’s understood that your actual BODY the one and only irreplaceable item you live in 24/7 is a “loaner” situation ONLY…yeah, I never really believed they’d go through with that crazy ruling. Didn’t really remember the specific specifics of the situation but probably there was some technicality or something was misrepresented. Yeah! Happily I clicked on the thoughtfully-provided link to the Baltimore Sun story, and was greeted by:
Definition of rape widened
By Julie Bykowicz | Sun reporter
April 17, 2008The state’s highest court ruled yesterday that a man can be charged with rape if he ignores a woman’s calls to stop - even if she had previously consented to sex.
WHOA!
Run that by me again…
(dramatic pause indicated by dash)EVEN IF! she had previously consented to sex
Have you ever turned in a project at work, felt really good about it, gone to your boss’s office ready for a little congratulatory back-patting, and found yourself instead getting seriously told how badly you missed the actual point of the entire thing? Have you ever taken a test, turned it in, felt really good about it, held out your hand for your B-at-the-minimum paper, and found yourself staring at a D instead?
I made a feeble attempt at rallying, though. So they phrased it, er, in a fashion that seemed to indicate that it was a shocking radical notion that a if a woman said she wanted to have sex with you, that didn’t give you legal ownership of all her bodily orifices til you, not her, decided you were through with them. Probably a typo..! Or maybe I’m being oversensitive. Cause I’m afraid I might sometimes be oversensitive when it comes to the “R” word. God knows that it’s easy to be oversensitive—
With this expansion of the legal definition of rape, Maryland joins seven other states whose courts have determined that a woman can revoke her consent after intercourse begins.
(Shocked silence.)
(me, in a small voice) “I didn’t know that the default in 86% of the United States was that I wasn’t allowed to revoke consent whenever I felt like it.”
Always thought I could.
Always operated under that assumption.
I guess I’m luckier than I even knew that I got disillusioned this way, rather than…some OTHER way, eh?
Does anybody know exactly which states are the ones with the sane definition of rape? You know the ones where if I am shouting “Ouch, stop! You’re hurting me!” then the man who continues to fuck me is called what he is: RAPIST.
I would like to know exactly how safe or unsafe I should feel.
wow.
that is some sick shit. i had no idea.
See really, this is all part of the radical queer feminist agenda. We have plants everywhere—the courts, the media, the government—whose only goal is to make absolutely clear that having sex with men—or even having relationships with them—is a really, really bad idea.
I mean, obviously! It’s the only explanation that makes any sense.
Granted, this tactic is not completely foolproof. Women can rape, too, though it happens rather a lot less. And addressing those systems of violence is exactly the kind of task that we are going to take on in our sinister phase two.
(What is this sinister phase two, you might ask? Already I have said too much. I could go on, but then I’d have to kill you.)
((… and then raise your corpse with lesbian witchcraft so you can join our army of radical feminist zombies. We have those, you know.))
Ha, NICE try but NOTHING, not even the power of Teh Homosexual Agenda ™! can make a sexual relationship with a man sound less appealing than a rape trial. BLEH.
Though lesbian witchcraft and an army of rad fem zombies sounds pretty cool. I wanna see!
Radical queer feminists have the best trading cards.
Way better than the rapists.