Lang agree something has to change.
I don’t know enough about the legal system to suggest strategies but might it be worth raising the low sentences and worrying interpretations by judges of women’s sexual consent (not that we are really safe to assume there ^was* consent), with MPs?
Either by writing directly to our own MPs and others,
or via women and equalities select committee (but they are not currently active on sexual violence),
or via the All party parliamentary group on Sexual violence rapecrisis.org.uk/all-party-parliamentary-group-appg-on-sexual-violence to ask them to look into sentencing in these cases?
There’s also this organisation:
www.sentencingcouncil.org.uk
@SentencingCCL
Sentencing Council for England & Wales ‘promotes greater transparency and consistency in sentencing’ without interfering with judicial independence.
They could be asked to look into the transparency of how judges seem to come to these violently misogynistic conclusions..?
How much of this IS transparent sentencing and justifiable based on evidence..?
Or how much is judges minimising the impact on perpetrators so as reflect and uphold their own prejudices around male sexual privilege and acting to punish female sexual consent- because a ‘good’ woman would never really consent to sex?
So anyone who says ‘yes’ is taking her chances and if things go wrong, well.. that’s on her.
Hopefully someone who knows the legal system could suggest ideas. I can’t stand the idea that men can get away with such low sentences for this. hopefully there is someone relevant to object to.
Judges need educating by women’s groups and psychologists on this shit urgently- these types of cases can only increase. increasing numbers of young people are being raised with access to violent porn and will grow up thinking all these extreme things are normal and something you can just try out on another person..
not to mention all the adults already into it who are now getting ever easier access and validation and normalisation for this horrific dangerous stuff.