re: #114 webevintage

So if I call Republicans IN THE HOUSE fucking bastards for not focusing on jobs, but instead focusing on redefining what is rape you won’t respond to tell me how they really are just trying to help women and the bill actually is all about jobs?
Just checking…

Just to be clear, I don’t believe there are different stages of rape. Rape is forcible by definition.

–noun
1. an act of sexual intercourse that is forced upon a person.
2. the unlawful compelling of a person through physical force or duress to have sexual intercourse.

I am not sure that adding that word is really changing the definition of rape, AND I consider the addition of that word forcible unnecessary. AND I certainly don’t think this is about jobs.

BUT I do think that trying to link this to jobs legislation when it clearly is not is not constructive. Dehumanizing and demonizing people based on the addition of that word is not constructive. We don’t know the final version of the bill. It just might have been added to emphasize the brutality of the act of rape. There is nothing in the bill that addresses non-forceable rape.

You might note that the swearing, and insults are not necessary, and a discussion can take place without it. That is what I prefer.