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Old Dec 12, 2015, 07:28 PM
Anonymous37833
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I will focus on two issues: domestic violence and rape.

When police officers arrive at a domestic call they're looking at the man and the woman. If the woman has the tiniest bruise on her the man is arrested, but they also look at the man. If the man has the tiniest bruise on him the woman is arrested. This wasn't the case 30 years ago, so the double standard is much less than it used to be.

I'll divide rape into two categories: non-marital rape and marital rape.

First, we must acknowledge that the average man is significantly stronger than the average woman, so we must take that into account. The number of females charged with raping a man has significantly increased over the last 30 years (when it was unheard of). For non-marital rape there will always be a bias in favor of women to compensate for the disparity in physical strength.

As for marital rape, that was not legally possible in the entire U.S. until 1993 (that is not a typo). To this day about a dozen states treat marital rape (a wife claiming to be raped by her husband) more leniently than non-marital rape. South Carolina only gives the wife 30 days to report the rape, and the rape, per se, is not sufficient to charge the husband with rape. The rape must be accompanied by a high degree of bodily harm. Thus the husband has to rape his wife while holding a bat, pipe, or loaded gun, etc. (source: Wikipedia, 12 December 2015).

Thus any double standard is much less now than 30 years ago, but this still is a man's world, but it wouldn't be nothing without a woman (as the song says).
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