New push in Israel for legal recognition of raped boys

johnmarkley · 2013-10-20T05:09:21+00:00

Currently, only females can be victims of rape under Israeli law; raping a man or boy is sorted under less severe crimes like indecent acts. Feminism bears direct responsibility for that; a previous attempt to extend the protection of the law to men and boys was defeated in 2010 due to objections from feminist groups. The proposal described in the article would still only apply rape laws to male victims under 18, which its supporters describe as a necessary compromise to prevent feminists from sinking the whole thing a second time.

But remember, everybody, if we really cared about men getting raped we'd be feminists, not MRAs, because it's The Patriarchy that says men can't be raped, and everyone knows that feminists are all about fighting The Patriarchy.</s>

CosmicKeys · 2013-10-20T08:00:38+00:00

Amazing that in 2013 these inequalities exist, as it says "that’s of course absurd". Really good article.

If there were more men's advocacy groups out there this sort of stuff would be brought to light faster. If the women's organizations are more interested in the wording of "minor" vs. "person" than they have about boys being raped by female pedophiles then that isn't doing the job. They may be doing good work but boys are only tangentially getting benefits.

BrambleEdge · 2013-10-20T15:39:21+00:00

Feminists creating and upholding actual rape-culture against men while denouncing imaginary rape-culture against women.

Fuck the lot of them.

2013-10-20T08:59:57+00:00

Rape has nothing to do with gender

This is a refreshing article, I am very happy to read this even if the author seems a bit too enthusiastic about "other Western countries' laws" on rape. Even if the sex of the victim is not mentionned, in the US you need to have a penis to rape which is tantamount to denying female-perpetrated rape. In France (and the UK afaik) it is a bit different, but the legal definition of rape still implies there is penetration of the victim.

women’s organizations argue that the language proposed for “person” would allow adult male rapists to use the language that child victims can and claim that, “she made me do it.”

So, because of the possibility of a false claim, we should deny some rape victims' right to be recognized as such ? And why would the law not be gender neutral then, because the language proposed for “person” would also allow adult female rapists to use the language that child victims can and claim that, “he made me do it.”

Thanks for the share, I hope we'll see more of these.

Title	New push in Israel for legal recognition of raped boys
Author	johnmarkley
Upvotes	56
Comments	5
Date	October 20, 2013 4:49 AM UTC (12 years ago)
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