I haven't seen a good Sanity Sunday since we moved to SaidIt. Here is a thread on reddit about rape, and the comments are refreshingly sane.

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[–]ClassroomPast6178 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

During the height of the whole "college campus rape epidemic"

Was that when they were claiming that US college campuses had higher rape rates than Somalia because they conflated rape, sexual assault and “unwanted advances”.

[–]OuroborosTheory 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

remember when Mattress Girl made a C-list porno and her own mother reviewed the film?

[–]ClassroomPast6178 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

That case was egregious. She ruined that guy’s life.

[–]OuroborosTheory 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

now technically Nungesser "only" had to return to Germany, and even Johnny Depp got his fingertip sewn back on

problem is is that while 90% of people actually agree that Phil Hartman shouldn't have been gunned down in his bed by his coked-out ex, until the radfems attacked trans women ~2014 everyone was too afraid to say things like "maybe having boobs doesn't make you immune to felonies": and ultimately all we got is "Chris-Chan dicked Barb and even asked her to compare it to her previous husbands, but you can't say Chris-Chan is anything other than a woman"

[–]LyingSpirit472 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Close, it was when people were saying "if the woman is completely sXe and enthusiastically consented throughout it, but when they were a child they were in a Catholic family who's devout grandparents forced her to take First Communion and she did to humor them before never going to church again, the one sip of communion wine they drank 10-15 years before means it was automatically rape whenever they have sex", as well as "if a woman is happily having enthusiastic consent throughout, but the next morning that ONE frenemy in her friends' group mocks her for being a slut because she secretly wanted the guy and she's jealous her friend hooked up with her, and the woman wants to get queen bee status in her friendgroup again, she can say it's rape."

Sadly, even with the sanity, some people in the comment were STILL saying this.

[–]jet199 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

This is a USA cultural thing.

Something like 25% of women in the USA will say they have been raped when surveyed while in other countries it's between 4-10%. Places like India will only get 4%.

Now I could be wrong but I severely doubt the USA has more than double the rate of rape of most other countries, including it's neighbours which will have American men passing through, so it's more likely that American women just have a vastly different definition of rape than everywhere else.