I'm not sure if I saw it mentioned here or somewhere else, but I read someone say a while ago where they thought the concept of marriage to a man was essentially longform prostitution, and it's been stuck in my brain. What are your all's thoughts on that? When I think about it, it could make sense in certain contexts, like with tradmoids and their utopia where women can't have bank accounts or do much of Jack shit else except to shack up with a moid.
This is now outdated but was true when Dworkin wrote it. Women couldn't get good jobs because of their sex, were often fired from jobs after getting married, couldn't have bank accounts or do much of jack shit else, couldn't support the children in case of a divorce, and most importantly
marital rape was legal.
Here's the timeline of marital rape criminalization from that Wikipedia article, enriched with
extra data so you could see how geopolitical enemies compare:
1922: Soviet Union (founded Dec 30 1922)
1932: Poland
1950: Czechoslovakia, some other Communist countries
1965: Sweden
1971: Norway
1976: Italy
1977: Slovenia (as part of Yugoslavia)
1979: Belgium
1980: Israel
1981: NSW (Australia)
1983: Canada
1985: New Zealand
1989: Austria, Scotland
1990: Ireland
1991: England and Wales, Liechtenstein, Netherlands
1992: Australia, Spain, Switzerland
1978 - 1993: United States
1993: South Africa
1994: Cyprus, Finland, France, Luxembourg
1996: Colombia
1997:
Germany
1999: Chile
2000: Namibia
2001: Zimbabwe
2002: Serbia
2003: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Papua New Guinea
2005: Cambodia,
Turkey
2006:
Greece, Liberia, Nepal
2007: Ghana, Malaysia, Mauritius, Thailand
2009: Rwanda, Suriname
2012: Nicaragua, Sierra Leone
2013: Bolivia, Samoa,
South Korea, Tonga
no year given: Singapore, Qatar, Taiwan
(highlighted rape-loving "civilized" countries in yellow)
Notable countries where it's legal: China, India, Nigeria, Pakistan, North Korea, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Yemen, Iran, Afghanistan
-yes they often default to “men don’t report it” and “justice system doesn’t take it seriously”. Often with just the assertion that these things are so. Well why not argue about how many angels can dance on a pin at this point.
Scrotes use the same excuse to explain their insistence women commit equal amounts of spouse beatings -- except men don't get killed by their wives at nearly the same rate. Women do commit about 60% of child beatings, still vastly less than men in terms of beatings per child and especially per person*hour of childcare.
(On a side note, I support beating children when they commit an act that would be a crime if not for their age.)