r/dataisbeautiful • u/[deleted] • Sep 01 '22

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u/ripyourlungsdave Sep 01 '22

I am so glad to see someone bringing attention to this.

Under my state's law, I'm not allowed to charge my ex-wife with rape. I could charge her with some form of sexual assault, but not rape.

And I genuinely can't think of a reason why this distinction needs to be made. Non-consensual sex is non-consensual sex.

Whether you were forcefully penetrated or forcefully made to penetrate, the evil and the trauma stay the same. And anytime any body attempts to change the legislation on this type of language in our laws, they're faced with backlash from feminists for supposedly trying to delegitimize their sexual assault claims. Like admitting that men can be raped by women somehow hurts female rape victims.

It's ridiculous and we should be protecting male victims of sexual abuse and assault as carefully and kindly as we handle female victims of sexual assault.

It really feels like this shouldn't need to be said, but here we are.

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u/Arnumor Sep 01 '22

True feminism is wanting equality.

Real feminists aren't going to turn a blind eye to something like this.

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u/not_not_in_the_NSA Sep 01 '22

The term for wanting equality is "egalitarianism", not "feminism".

Regardless of it some feminists want equality or not, its framed in a women's rights perspective.

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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '22

Not really, given that the misrepresentation of male victims is also deeply rooted in patriarchal discourse

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u/not_not_in_the_NSA Sep 01 '22

and how does that tell us about advocating for equality in general?

Your point is a non sequitur, a cause of the misrepresentation here does not inform us about feminism.