it has nothing to do with feminism or criminalizing ass pinching. it subsumed several other categories of FELONY penetrative assault under one banner of Rape.

Click the 08/23/16 link to see the bill commentary

the inexplicable hysteria over this in the other thread was incomprehensible.

here is the actual explanation of and reasoning behind the bill:

COMMENTS: According to the author, "Under California law rape is defined as 'an act of sexual intercourse' or penile penetration. Other types of sexual assault—including forcible acts of sexual penetration by a foreign object and sodomy—are defined and categorized as different crimes. Under this definition, since the perpetrator did not penetrate the victim with his penis, no 'rape' occurred in the eyes of the law. "Under California law there is a bias against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) victims because of our narrow definition of rape. This is especially unjust given the staggering statistics which show that LGBTQ individuals are more likely to be victims of sexual violence than heterosexuals. "According to the Human Rights Campaign, 46 percent of bisexual women have been raped, compared to 17% of heterosexual women and 13% of lesbians and 40% of gay men and 47% of bisexual men have experienced sexual violence other than rape, compared to 21% of heterosexual men. "California's restrictive definition of rape means a man cannot be raped only sodomized and it means that despite being sexually penetrated with a foreign object, the victim in Palo Alto was not raped only sexually assaulted. "AB 701 modernizes the definition of rape to ensure the consequences for such acts are properly assigned to their perpetrator. When we fail to call rape 'rape,' we rob survivors and their families of the justice they deserve. Rape is rape – the law should reflect that."

please stop the hysteria