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Redefining rape

There have been some Republican members of Congress whom have wanted to redefine rape, which would further their cause of attempting to strip rights away from women.

Let me redefine rape for them.

Rape (verb - pronounced rehp): What Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan, Todd Akin, Richard Mourdock, and the Republican Party suffered on election day - November 6th of 2012 - courtesy of American voters.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/01/31/gop-abortion-bill-redefines-rape.html
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  1. HippieGirlNovember 16, 2012 at 3:58 PM

    Ok, let me just list what I think rape is. Last time I checked, rape, according to the dictionary, is forced sexual relations. It's when a person, sometimes a man, sometimes a woman, called an assailant, forces someone, usually a man or woman, to have unwanted sexual relations against his or her will. I've noticed something that I find to be highly unfair. When a woman is on trial for a rape charge, the lawyer for the rapist will somehow turn the words of the woman around to make it sound like she seduced him into having sex and then cried rape or that she supposedly asked for it. I hate that. I'm not really into feminine rights or anything, but I do think that women should get a little justice when on trial for being sexually assaulted

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  2. The RozNovember 16, 2012 at 4:38 PM

    Yeah, it's pretty amazing/sad that kind of thing still happens. While I understand the notion of a defendant being innocent until proven guilty, it often times feels as if women accusers of rape are thought to be guilty of lying until they can prove the crime. Unfortunately, some rapes still go unreported for this very reason and others. It's sad, for as hard as women have had to fight to reach where they are today, they still have so much to fight for when it comes to garnering full equality.

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