Well, first things first! Let me apoligize for being so inactive recently. I have been uber busy with school and work (I actually pulled an all-nighter the other week. It wasn't pretty, even with the aid of copious amounts of caffeine) and haven't had a chance to post! Bah.
But anyway... I saw this post on feministing.com, and it just pisses me off so much that I can't see straight.
Basically, it says how a man was aquitted for raping a woman because he insisted "he had been asleep and had no idea what he was doing. " Mrs. McKenna (the victim) said that this left her feeling "shocked and degraded".
Apparently, this isn't just a one-time deal- this defense has been poping up with increasing frequency. In another case, a man's defense is the fact that the woman he raped was sleepwalking and it could have been consensual.
Could have been consensual?
Personally, I think this is a load of bullshit.
This even has a name, too. The act of carrying out sexually violent acts in your sleep is called "sexsomnia." Like the author of the post, I prefer the term "rapesomnia" instead- the very word sex implies consent.
What do you all think?
Ja Ne~
<3 Nikori
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I have never in my life heard of such a stupid thing. Basically what they're saying is, it's okay to rape someone if you're just sleepwalking. Rape is rape, I don't care what they say. The victim was used as a witness, but obviously they didn't care too much about what she said. I can't believe they even created a name for it. With the rape instances rising every day, why would anybody think it is okay to rape someone, whether sleeping or not.
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