Scottish rape laws.

[fickle_goddess]

Read them.

Trust me, I couldn't phrase it anywhere near as well as they have.

But just to convince you to click, here are some choice excerpts:

In Scotland, it [rape] can only be committed by males upon females, which appears to mean by persons biologically male at birth upon persons born biologically female.Translation: If you're a guy, tough

Comments

[fairly_grimm]

...Damn, I run-on when I'm flaily. Hadn't noticed.

[fickle_goddess]

Too much to say, not enough breath to say it with.

[fairly_grimm]

Mhm. ...More than too much to say. Too much stupidity to take in, and the fact that you didn't know about the laws until I stabbed you/I didn't find out about them until a few weeks back/Analyst only found out accidentally and it's her own country/someone hasn't changed it in all this time/people like that exist and they're the majority/f;dsjdfgldjgasd;lkjdsfsdf. Blows my mind that something like this can just sit there for years without there being enough of a fight we even know it's happening.

[fickle_goddess]

I can't believe I didn't know about this. @_@ You'd think that at least one of my feminist books would have covered Crazy Shit in Scotland. But man. I can't believe that that type of law exists in this time and in a supposedly civilized, secular country!

[a_white_rain]

lkdjfgal;sjkfsadkxfasd.kfasdkmfc sazljkfmasd i WHAT THE FUCK WHAT THE FUCK WHAT THE FUCK.

PLZ EXPLAIN WHO DID THIS AND WHERE THEIR BRAIN WENT.

MY CAPLOCKS DON'T PROPERLY EXPRESS MY RAGE.

[fickle_goddess]

Scottish rape laws and as far as I can tell, they had NO minds. No other way to explain it.

Especially the bit about being BORN with a vagina. What, so post-op transsexuals can't get raped? Nice to know that the only vaginas that count are the ones God gives you.

Keep your religion out of everyone's politics, please. It's bad enough when it stops people from marrying but when it comes down to only natural girls being raped if they scream, fight and get brutally forced into sex, I think you're hitting a new low.

[a_white_rain]

and the idea that men can't be raped. WHAT THE FLYING FUCK.

[fickle_goddess]

And that forced anal sex doesn't count as rape because the Almighty-Vagina pwns all other orifices!

[princessjessia]

...

WHAT. THE. FUCK?

*screams incoherently and throws something* That is... fucking ridiculous on a level I can't even wrap my brain around.

[fickle_goddess]

*felt much the same* Yes. Yes and yes and yes and YES.

If nothing else, I hate it for thinking that the default answer to "Do you want to have sex with me?" is a yes. No matter who's asking, who is being asked, or what the circumstances are. It's always yes, unless she says no, and even then, the no doesn't count unless they fight -- or so those laws claim.

[des_butterfly]

Note to self, note to self: DON'T MOVE TO SCOTLAND.

WHAT. THE. FUCK.

[fickle_goddess]

Or move to Scotland and petition for those laws to be changed. Change comes from the inside, not the outside.

...Unless we're talking invading armies, which I seriously doubt is unlikely to happen since getting up in arms about something is very differently to getting yourself armed and marching off.

[am3thyst]

Yeah, and even for American law, but a long time a husband couldn't "rape" his wife. So you can get raped by your husband but it wouldn't be considered as rape lawfully. O__o

[fickle_goddess]

But that's not the case now though. And lesbian and gay rape don't get dismissed as 'not rape' simply because of the lack of a penis or a vagina being involved in their respective cases.

The problem with the Scottish laws is that they're not from the past. They're here. They're now. If someone goes to Scotland and is raped, that's what they'll be up against -- a judge who only counts it as rape if the victim is biologically female, the criminal is biologically male, and she fought with everything she could to get away from him.