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'''Criminal''': In reading this article, I could not get past the treatment of women in cases of rape and kidnapping. The concept that a rape could be justified by women acting in what was construed to be a suggestive manner is very foreign to our modern concepts of sexual harassment and abuse. To me this really illustrated the lengths to which men would go to illustrate their authority and power over women and how they used womens supposed evil, seductive nature for their benefit and to justify their wrongs. I agree with Stephen that this illustrates both the gender gap itself but also its inherent flaw. Taking the separation of genders so far as to justify such acts against women is truly terribly and criminal. --Sarah Gardner | '''Criminal''': In reading this article, I could not get past the treatment of women in cases of rape and kidnapping. The concept that a rape could be justified by women acting in what was construed to be a suggestive manner is very foreign to our modern concepts of sexual harassment and abuse. To me this really illustrated the lengths to which men would go to illustrate their authority and power over women and how they used womens supposed evil, seductive nature for their benefit and to justify their wrongs. I agree with Stephen that this illustrates both the gender gap itself but also its inherent flaw. Taking the separation of genders so far as to justify such acts against women is truly terribly and criminal. --Sarah Gardner | ||
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| + | '''Also Criminal:''' This is only tangentially related to Sarah's comment, but it popped in my head when I read her post. Did you know the Italian Supreme Court determined that a man cannot be convicted of raping a woman if she was wearing jeans during the alleged rape? The reasoning is that a man cannot possibly get a woman out of her jeans without her consent. Now granted, Italian jeans ARE pretty tight, but... I think this "jean alibi" is the same kind of misogynistic behavior we read about in "City of Women." http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/277263.stm -- Rebecca | ||
