Women in Jeans cannot be raped

[PaulaYatesBiggestFan]

you have got to be kidding

I think we have a lot of fighting yet to do

Oh Jeez. I sincerely hope this goes to the European Court.

oh my god

so being terrififed for your life and your safety you take off or allow your clothes to be removed by your assailant and therefore it is not rape

"The judgment was likely to anger womens rights organisations"

no shit?

i had to re - read it .... i could not believe what it was actually saying

Aaah, to be a woman. So that's why we should be barefoot and wearing crotchless panties: so it's easier to convince a judge it was rape? Now i geddit! And here's me thinking they were a naughty little fancy dress thing.

Jesus fucking Christ. That sent a shiver down my spine.

that is just dreadful!!!!!

as you say she may have removed them but under severe duress and in fear!!!

Ugh.

I take my jeans on and off without undoing them.

I wonder if men cannot be raped if they're wearing jeans....but then the sort of antedeluvian thinking of the article would have us believe men can't be raped, I suppose.

Again, ugh.

Why is an article from 1999 in the 'in the news' section?

This was nearly a decade ago, I remember it when it happened (but I can't remember the final outcome now). It's hardly news though, or even an indicator of a general trend. There always have been occasional bizarrely wrong judgements, and there probably always will be.

ooooh

hmm wonder what linked it to bbc news page..anyone know the outcome?

Ooops. Didn't see date. Anyone know what happened?

OH MY FUCKING GOD!!!!

they can still have their faces forced into places

god this makes me so angry

will try to find update...still shocking though

This is terrible, as you rightly say, but the "news" story is nearly ten years old. Do you have any updates? Did it go any further? It's astonishing if it didn't,

cannot find any update which leads me to believe it was not overruled by european court

Why have you brought up a news story that's ten years old?

Ten years ago, I had no child, no wrinkles, and no mobile phone or home computer.

A lot happens in ten years.

Cannot even begin to comment!

Paula are you doing cod's challenge too????

looks suspicious

?

What's all this I'm hearing about Cod's challenge????

too

oh wonderfull so potential rapists know that if they rape a woman in jeans they are much more likely to get away with itand i can pull my jeans down without undoing them very easily why couldnt someone else????ffs