*Sigh*
You mean like the Rapes that took place via the Rolling Stone magazine report? Condoning Rape has never once came up in the topic of speech throughout my 42 years with friends, coworkers, barflys, jokes, or even masturbatory fantasy...
I see.. These are just some comments over the last 20 or so years from various politicians in your country..
So you have never heard of comments about "
legitimate rape", for example?
“It seems to be, first of all, from what I understand from doctors, it’s really rare. If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut the whole thing down.” - Todd Akin
How about "
easy rape"?
“He also told me one thing, ‘If you do (have premarital sex), just remember, consensual sex can turn into rape in an awful hurry. Because all of a sudden a young lady gets pregnant and the parents are madder than a wet hen and she’s not going to say, ‘Oh, yeah, I was part of the program.’ All that she has to say or the parents have to say is it was rape because she’s underage. And he just said, ‘Remember, Roger, if you go down that road, some girls,’ he said, ‘they rape so easy.’ What the whole genesis of it was, it was advice to me, telling me, ‘If you’re going to go down that road, you may have consensual sex that night and then the next morning it may be rape.’ So the way he said it was, ‘Just remember, Roger, some girls, they rape so easy. It may be rape the next morning.’ - Roger Rivard
Or Buck and his comments about "
buyer's remorse" in refusing to prosecute a rape case where the rapist had confessed to raping a woman?
Or how about if
she would just lie back and enjoy being raped?
Marital rape?
Conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly has been a Republican delegate to eight national conventions, including in 2012. She ran for Congress on the Republican ticket, twice. She also has repeatedly said she doesn’t believe that marital rape exists.
“I think that when you get married you have consented to sex,” she said in a 2008 interview. “That’s what marriage is all about, I don’t know if maybe these girls missed sex ed.”
She added, “When it gets down to calling it rape though, it isn’t rape, it’s a he said-she said where it’s just too easy to lie about it … Feminists, if they get tired of a husband or if they want to fight over child custody, they can make an accusation of marital rape and they want that to be there, available to them.”
In 1981, then-Senator Joe Biden held a hearing on the marital rape exception. Sen. Jeremiah Denton, Republican of Alabama, replied, “Damn it, when you get married, you kind of expect you’re going to get a little sex.”
When repealing the exception for rape within a marriage made its way through some state legislators, legislators had many questions. In 2014, Virginia state law maker Richard “Dick” Black, a Republican, was running for a seat in the U.S. Congress. Mother Jones reported that in 2002, the Virginia legislature had been considering revising its marital rape laws. An amendment was introduced saying marital rape could only be prosecuted if “at the time of the alleged offense, the spouses were living separate and apart, or the defendant caused bodily injury to the spouse by the use of force or violence,” drastically narrowing the scope of the anti-rape law.
By way of explanation, Black, a former military prosecutor who clearly understood the way criminal law works, said, “I don’t know how on Earth you could validly get a conviction in a husband-wife rape when they’re living together, sleeping in the same bed, she’s in a nightie and so forth. There’s no injury, there’s no separation, or anything.” Black eventually dropped out of the race, but now serves in the Virginia state senate. He will face a female Democrat backed by EMILY’s List in his reelection bid next year.
Or how about rape should just be
legal if women are allowed to have abortions?
“If a woman has (the right to an abortion), why shouldn’t a man be free to use his superior strength to force himself on a woman?” Lockman said. “At least the rapist’s pursuit of sexual freedom doesn’t (in most cases) result in anyone’s death.”
And I am not even touching on the too numerous to name cases of victim shaming and abuse of rape victims. This is just the tip of the iceberg.
Have you been living under a rock for the duration of your life?
If you think for a new york minute it is condoned here, Id advise a plane ticket to Seria or Lebenon.....there you will see first hand rape culture....
I'll make it easier for you, so that you perhaps stop and think before mouthing off. I am a rape victim. There are many members here who are victims of rape and sexual assault and abuse. Personally, even though there was DNA evidence, I was physically harmed and it happened in my own home, my rapist was not prosecuted. I have been blamed for my rape, questioned why I did not have security guards in and around my home or vicious guard dogs, by fellow members on this site. I was berated for not having fallen asleep with my phone in my hand, if I really wanted to prevent being raped. That is just the tip of the iceberg of what rape victims often encounter from their communities and society in general.
In the US, victims of gang rapes are abused, shamed and insulted, their rapists treated like heroes for raping an unconscious or drunk young woman.
I have seen rape victims being blamed for their own rapes in court, accused of bringing on their own rapes because of how they were dressed, where they were walking at any particular hour, for having consumed alcohol or drugs.
There is a prevalence of not blaming the rapist in society and instead focusing on the victim and the actions of the victim.
And if you think that does not constitute rape culture, then really, you exist in a state of denial about the matter.
The USA prosecutes rape with Looooong prison terms....Please, Im sure because of my white privilege, rape culture is lostt on me, right? Yeah ok
You were saying?
I said: if they got skills, hire the people! I have zero problem with anybody that was hired because of their. Knowledge and ability-----I have a problem whereby someone is hired due soley to the color of their skin or minority status.... I cant believe you dont see the irony in this.... They didnt even have their own tools for godsakes!! Another requirement that was ignored....
Please read what I said once more and see what I said, instead of repeating this same asinine assertion.
Ive never once thought a good trade school wouldnt be a better solution! We are talking earthquake reinforcment!!
A good trade school would go a long way in ensuring that people were not locked out of particular trades because they are women or minorities.
I haven't worked carpentry for years but the last time I did the entire field was saturated with mexican and south american minorities.... Doing sub par work for less money. Reason #1 I left occupation....
Because they were minorities? Or because their work was sub-par?
Alternatively, you could do excellent work and stand out for doing excellent work.