Changes in how rape will be investigated- about time!

[AWholeLottaNosy]

I just read this and I was really pleased. It's about time rape was investigated and prosecuted differently considering the appalling rape conviction rate we have in this country. Imagine there will be an outcry from all the MRAs, but, I think it's very good news...

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/11375667/Men-must-prove-a-woman-said-Yes-under-tough-new-rape-rules.html

In fact I need a bigger grin, I'm getting tears from laughing here.

No of course they don't. You have just misrepresented them completely. Take it back!

You need to start colouring aliens instead. Everyone knows they wants it...

Fairlyfairforall You said -
"Generally the assumption seems to be that the perpetrators are only male gendered when of course we all know plenty of cases where women have been convicted of these types of sexual offences".

I cant remember a single case in the news for something so plentiful

Is it too late to laugh at this?

the ancient meaning of the word (circa 18th century)

It reminds me of the saying that for an British person, 100 miles is a long distance and for an American, 100 years is a long time.

Never too late, and I missed that gem, so I'm glad you brought it up.

Naughty Flora, no laughing at the tro confused and bewildered.

Speaking of ancient misogynies, I've just read that, apparently, back in t'day, it was thought that women had 'cold and wet' bodies while men had hot, dry ones, which affected their emotions differently. This had an impact on women's legal situation, because while a man could claim he committed a crime in the heat of anger, a woman couldn't.

I thought of you when I read that Jeanne

Aw. I feel the warm glow of obsolescence.

Oh, that's fascinating Jeanne! I knew about the cold wet bodies but never realised it had that implication.

YY, it is fascinating.

And it is relevant, because we are still buying into this 'he couldn't help it, it's his temper/ passion' idea of male sexual violence, aren't we? (Not you and me, society).

JeanneDeMontbaston read some quite disturbing articles on how men have tried to get away using gay panic defense or trans panic, on the back of this uncontrolled-man-beast thinking.