99.999% of men are not raping women.
99.999% of men do their best to protect their wives, sisters, and female associates from rape.
How? By dismissing valid evidence as meaningless? Zeroing in on everything a raped woman did before and after as wrong, a lie, and deserving of rape? Forgetting eons of sanctioned, institutionalized, and silenced rape because some weirdo carried a mattress to a graduation ceremony once 10 years ago?
99.999% of men universally despise rapists and react violently, or espouse beliefs of violence when confronted by the idea or the act of rape.
99.999% of men would have to be stopped from killing another man if they encountered that man raping a woman even if they don't know the woman.
Not on this site.
Men created the laws, anti-rape laws predate the political enfranchisement of women and the 19th amendment.
Prior to modernity and the modern justice system rapists were subjected to mob justice when they were found and killed and no one cared.
Lol.
Yeah, in the 13th century rape was finally prosecutable. Not until the 19th century for a black woman against a white man. Lol guess how many of those were prosecuted.
The
Code of Hammurabi, one of the earliest sets of written laws, considered the rape of a virgin as property damage against her father. For a long time, the rape of a woman was considered a
property crime against the victim’s husband or father. The word itself derives from the
Latin word rapere, or “seize”. It wasn’t until the 11th and 12th centuries that rape began to be considered more as a violent, sexual crime against the victim. At the end of the 13th century, the Statutes of Westminster
allowed the crown to prosecute rapists should the victim’s family choose not to do so, signifying a fundamental change in rape being viewed as a crime against the State.
Early American colonies defined
rape at the common-law as “carnal knowledge of a woman 10 year or older, forcibly and against her will.” In the late 1800s, temperance and suffrage activists successfully advocated to raise the legal age of consent from 10 to between 14 and 18, depending on the state. Not everyone, however, was excited about this progress. In 1895,
one Kentucky legislator wrote, “I regard the twelve-year-old girl as being capable of resisting the wiles of the seducer as any older woman.”
During the 1800s, most states
excluded black women, both free and enslaved, from rape laws. Slave women frequently endured violent sexual abuse which often resulted in pregnancy. If a slave woman attempted to defend herself against such abuse,
she would be beaten severely.
It was not until 1861 that a black woman could even file rape charges against a white man.
Nearly 100 years later, the
Anti-Rape movementemerged as violence against women became a central point in the second-wave feminist movement. The 1960s onward ushered in significant progress in American rape law. It was during this time that rape began to be viewed as a weapon, driven by the desire to exert control over women.
Perhaps the most significant change came in 1975 when Congress adopted rules 412, 413, 414, and 415 into the Federal Rules of Evidence. These rules, more commonly known as
“rape shield” laws, limit the Defendant’s ability to probe into the sexual behavior, history, or reputation of the alleged victim. Prior to 1975, Defendants could attack an alleged victim’s credibility by presenting evidence of the victim’s sexual activity. The public humiliation and embarrassment of having their sexual history dragged out in court became a strong incentive for victims not to report sex crimes. Subject to limited and strict exceptions, rules 412-415 of the Federal Rules of Evidence prevents evidence of a victim’s sexual history from being used to discredit him or her.
Not until the 1970s was marital rape even considered rape. In 1976, Nebraska became the first state to make marital rape a crime. By 1993,
marital rape was a crime in all 50 states.
Prior to this development, many rape statutes only considered forced intercourse to be rape when the perpetrator was male and the survivor was someone he did not have a prior sexual relationship with. The marital rape exception was, therefore, rooted in the idea that consent is a contractual relationship a woman enters when she marries a man.
FIVE years ago this remained the case in Minnesota:
[...]many states still have loopholes in their legislation that allow for marital rape cases to go unprosecuted when survivors bring them forward. Such was the case of Jenny Teeson, a survivor of marital rape, in 2019. When she reported her case to law enforcement, Teeson discovered that Minnesota law still contained a provision shielding perpetrators from prosecution if the survivor was their spouse or in a voluntary sexual relationship with the perpetrator. The provision was repealed that year due largely to Teeson’s efforts in lobbying state lawmakers.
And
remains the case in some states:
Despite this win in Minnesota, approximately a dozen states [Iirc this article is from 2018 -ed.] still provide legal protections to perpetrators in situations of marital rape. In South Carolina, married survivors have to prove a threat of physical violence within 30 days of an act of sexual violence before pursuing a case. In Ohio, intentionally impairing a spouse’s mental state to perpetrate an act of sexual violence or perpetrating when a spouse is unconscious is completely legal.
(All quotes come from the linked articles and are consistent with the content and references. I've reorganized some quotes for something close to chronology.).
But the above is just about laws on the books. Beyond the minimization in enacted laws, prosecution of rape cases is pathetic.
@Otterly
I can't reply directly to your post.
The question wasn't the expectation, the question was "what magic and beauty do women create"
if you consider these things to be "magical" then you also have to consider men who work a regular job "magical"
and that's absurd. You know it's absurd. You wrote an entire paragraph rubbing your muff about doing the bare minimum basics that are expected of women and call this "creating magic" but I've also seen you and others in this thread minimizing the bare minimum expectations for men. Does a man create something magical when he has a full time job? No. And neither do you for these very basic qualifications of womanhood.
A lot of women (
@Otterly being one, iirc, along with many women here) do all of this AND work a full-time job.
Backwards and in high heels, as phrased by a woman who did exactly that.
Generally speaking men do harder jobs. The majority of women I know work safe, boring, office jobs. Most of the men I know work in some kind of dangerous field, a couple of industrial welders, a few electricians, I know one guy who's qualified as an underwater welder, etc. When women come home from a long day of pushing papers and feel resentment to their men who came home from 8-10 hours of physically destroying their bodies then they're retarded.
I know there are men who work cushy jobs too, and then I can maybe understand. If a woman and man are working similar jobs for the same number of hours a week, sure. But that's not the usual case.
What about women who work more hours, make more money, and do all the other as well? They're not anecdotes.
In 40% of families with children under 18, the mother is the primary breadwinner, according to Pew Research.
Nearly 30% of marriages have spouses making about the same. In 16%, women are the primary or sole breadwinner, up from 5% in 1972. Men are primary breadwinners in 55% of marriages, down from 85% in 1972. Of those, men are the sole breadwinners in 23% of marriages, down from 49% in 1972. These numbers continue to increase.
Even as financial contributions have become more equal in marriages, the way couples divide their time between paid work and home life remains unbalanced. Women pick up a heavier load when it comes to household chores and caregiving responsibilities, while men spend more time on work and leisure.
This is true in egalitarian marriages – where both spouses earn roughly the same amount of money – and in marriages where the wife is the primary earner. The only marriage type where husbands devote more time to caregiving than their wives is one in which the wife is the sole breadwinner. In those marriages, wives and husbands spend roughly the same amount of time per week on household chores.
In egalitarian and breadwinner wife marriages, husbands spend considerably more time on leisure activities than wives. Husbands in egalitarian marriages spend about 3.5 hours more per week on leisure activities than wives do. Wives in these marriages spend roughly 2 hours more per week on caregiving than husbands do and about 2.5 hours more on housework. In marriages where wives are the primary earners, husbands’ leisure time increases significantly (compared with egalitarian marriages), while the time they spend on caregiving and housework stays about the same. When wives are the sole earners, the amount of time husbands spend on caregiving and housework does tick up somewhat.
Your beliefs are incorrect.
when they use that sentimental view of marriage to tell me what I should or shouldn't do,
No one cares what you do. The only sentimentality I saw itt was defensive and not telling you anything about your preferences.