This is not necessarily true in the case of statutory rape. 15 year olds can chose to have sex, they sometimes do with people of similar age. But then, why would they be able to chose to have sex with 30 year olds. I think the law is formal and meant to protect vulnerable people, it does not define the experience of rape.
True that was a generalization on my part.

I think the law is formal and meant to protect vulnerable people, it does not define the experience of rape.
But don't you have to define what you are protecting vulnerable people from?

Makes since. I like chocolate ice cream. If I saw someone else getting a pint of it forced down their mouth I wouldn't be all like, "I wish that would happen to me!". I might wish I had some chocolate ice cream but I would rather be eating it myself, not have it force fed to me.

Thanks for dropping in daelyte.

Yeah ginger is a pretty powerful item (and oddly it almost seems like ground ginger is more powerful than fresh ginger root).

I don't own a grill yet but plan on getting one this summer.

Thanks for sharing Jut.

No problem and thanks from stopping by billy.

Yeah. Too much juice and because I actually added the pulp of their lemon/lime as well.

The lemon/lime flavors over powered the other stuff in the marinades.

Trial and error PGP, trial and error.

Thanks for dropping in.

I can agree with that argument. I'm thinking they just didn't want to fall into the rut where suddenly everything under the sun was a men's issue with enough spinning. And it's not really the saying its a men's issue that is a problem its the spinning.

Like with even what you say here I kinda get the feeling that by saying "they are often attacked for being perceived as male" feels like spin. You know how some feminists spin fat hatred against men into being a feminist issue because some of the most common insults used against fat men are woman like references? It sounds like an attempt at taking the focus away from the group that is actually being harmed as if they don't matter.

Interesting.

I don't recall seeing any of the things that in that link to AVfM mentioned when Amanda Marcotte posted on this the other day (http://pandagon.net/index.php/site/comments/the-abuser-lobby-goes-mainstream).

Wow I just read the first paragraph of the plot and I kid you not a large part of it was recently used in an episode of Law and Order:SVU.

In the episode a younger woman teacher was statutory raping a boy student and an older woman teacher (that had feelings for the younger teacher and was also the type to keep to herself) found out about it.

Essentially rachael what this amendment did was up the ante on trying to get rid of the law that already existed.

You see in NC all marriages that weren't one man/one woman were already illegal but it was only a law. This amendment is a much bigger chanllenge since its easier to repeal a law than undo a piece of a state constitution.

State Republicans have tried to pull something like this before and it always failed because its been a long time since the Republicans had control of the state level Senate. Also this served as a distraction from the unemployment (NC unemployment rate just fell below the national average a few months ago) and education (let's just say its bad when school kids are having fundraisers for teacher salaries).

I'll tell you what I pretty much turned against it since I started reading the books. And I think that is part of what happened. They went way off base when translating from book to show.