Voxlashi Archive

Upvotes	Title	Category	Author	Subreddit	Date (UTC)

Upvotes	Comment on	Subreddit	Date (UTC)
-1	More knowledge bombs over at r/blackpeopletwitter That is because it is unreasonable.	/r/MensRights	11/02/18 11:13 AM
0	More knowledge bombs over at r/blackpeopletwitter I thought we were past the laws of bastardy. I would like a source explaining how Sweden does it, because I don't think that's how they do it.	/r/MensRights	11/02/18 11:01 AM
-7	More knowledge bombs over at r/blackpeopletwitter There literally are biological differences between men and women. Men are biologically incapable of gestation. When it comes to children, there can be no legal equality - we can only aim for some sort of balance. No woman should be forced to give birth, and no man should be forced to raise a child with a woman he hates. Still, the child costs money, and if the dad doesn't chip in, that burden falls on the tax payers (as well as the mother and child probably).	/r/MensRights	11/02/18 10:34 AM
1	Canadian Supreme Court finds it’s not rape if the boy looks older Sentencing and application of law are two very different things. I won't comment on whether lower courts are more lenient when it comes to sentencing, because I don't know. But in this case the sentence was not an issue as the woman was acquitted.	/r/MensRights	12/07/17 08:31 AM
1	Canadian Supreme Court finds it’s not rape if the boy looks older this interpretation of the law is only being applied because of the sex of the defendant. There is literally zero basis for this. The Supreme Court makes general statements on the conditions for the exception, and they will be applicable on future cases regardless of the gender composition. The judges are not so dense that they would give a single defendant a free pass because she's a woman, as this could have ramifications on all future cases of statutory rape. If they were lenient to her now, …	/r/MensRights	12/07/17 12:36 AM
1	Canadian Supreme Court finds it’s not rape if the boy looks older You seem to assume that because it's framed as a narrow exception, this reservation is a nearly irrelevant addendum to an otherwise universally applicable law. But you're citing an absolutely crucial part of the text, and the exception is very important to the meaning of the law. This decision shows that the judges aren't just armchair moralists who are living in a bubble. They know that sometimes minors will appear much older, and that sometimes they will lie to get an older person in bed. And …	/r/MensRights	11/07/17 11:06 PM
1	Canadian Supreme Court finds it’s not rape if the boy looks older You're off the mark. This case raised questions on proof (did she know the age of the complainant?), but above all the application of law (had she done enough to find out about the age of the complainant?). Like I said, the key issue in this case was whether the accused had "taken all reasonable steps to ascertain the age of the complainant". If she had, then that's grounds for acquittal. If she should have done more (e.g. asked to see his ID), then she would have been convicted.	/r/MensRights	11/07/17 05:04 PM
1	Canadian Supreme Court finds it’s not rape if the boy looks older The law states that it's not necessarily an excuse. In other words, it isn't enough to prove that you didn't know that the victim was underage. That does not mean you will always be convicted if the victim turned out to be underage. The crucuial point in this case was whether "all reasonable steps" to affirm the age were taken - the requirement for which the Supreme Court was prescribing in the cited paragraph. Clearly the victim in this case looked mature enough to keep the threshold for "reaso…	/r/MensRights	11/07/17 12:11 PM
2	Canadian Supreme Court finds it’s not rape if the boy looks older “In some cases, it may be reasonable to ask a partner’s age. It would be an error, however, to insist that a reasonable person would ask a partner’s age in every case,” the decision reads. “Conversely, it would be an error to assert that a reasonable person would do no more than ask a partner’s age in every case, given the commonly recognized motivation for young people to misrepresent their age.” In short, it is perfectly okay for someone to just assume a child is of the age of consent because …	/r/MensRights	11/07/17 09:52 AM
0	If You Say So In this case it's just a weak tailpiece to an otherwise sound argument (cars do take up a lot of space cumulatively). I think we should reserve vocal criticism for when this sort of argument is the main reason for policy changes.	/r/MensRights	10/07/17 08:41 PM
6	If You Say So https://tv.aftonbladet.se/abtv/articles/217818 She does say something similar here, though it's nothing more than a sidenote to the central point - which is that cars take up a lot of space. It was a dumb argument that she could (and should) have refrained from making, but it was hardly a battlecry for feminist struggle.	/r/MensRights	10/07/17 11:33 AM
12	"beside" them? I had to say something. Wars are born by conflicts of interest, and have nothing to do with gender. Women stand to gain/lose as much as men after/during a war. Men have traditionally fought wars because they are physically superior to women. This is an advantage/disadvantage that has gradually lost importance with technological improvements, but it made sense back when soldiers had to drag their wounded comrades out of the crossfire, like in Normandy.	/r/MensRights	25/01/17 10:29 AM