this post was submitted on 13 Nov 2023
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Paragons of Virtue Arrested
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It's time to name and shame the self-proclaimed paragons of virtue. Keep it civil, though.
Stories are about those who have been placed in positions of trust, and then abused that trust.
Feel free to add stories of the self-righteous from other walks of life.
New rule: With regard to stories of particularly, but not only, female teachers sexually assaulting students. Any comments similar to "where were they when I was in school" will earn you the right to find another forum.
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No. Laws were just written with male pronouns. It's just a misconception.
Nope. The law specifically says penis.
I read the Wikipedia article, and it says it's not enforced like that. I linked a government source to that effect. I just don't care enough to argue about English rape laws.
Because there are other laws that have the same penalties and cover the other situations. It’s just one that gets called “rape”.
Assault by penetration covers what would be “rape by instrumentation” in the US. Forcibly inserting any object other than a penis into someone else.
Then there’s Sexual Assault which would be this, and that one would be an excellent example of your source, because it is masculinely gendered as well, but applies to female offenders as well.
All three carry the same penalties so it just becomes a legal semantic argument rather than a practical argument.
If it walks like a duck and rapes like a duck...
Then in pretty much other country it’s a raping duck.
Except in the uk unless that duck has a penis.