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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPresident Obama’s Definition of Rape is a Sign of Progress
President Obamas Definition of Rape is a Sign of Progress
Following a White House press conference on the deal recently struck with Iran, President Obama was posed with a question about Bill Cosby and his admittance of using drugs to have sex with women. In response, he called the act rape, giving a modern definition of consent that has feminists across the country applauding.
If you give a woman or a man, for that matter without his or her knowledge a drug and then have sex with that person without consent, thats rape, the President said. I think this country, any civilized country, should have no tolerance for rape.
This comprehensive definition of rape vastly differs from one used FBI used a mere three years ago, which read carnal knowledge of a female forcibly and against her will, and had not been changed since 1929. Thanks in part to the Rape is Rape campaign led by the Feminist Majority Foundation and Ms. magazine, the new definition is much more broad, including persons of all genders, and says rape is penetration, no matter how slight, of the vagina or anus with any body part or object, or oral penetration by a sex organ of another person, without consent of the victim. Although this FBI definition still leaves out some concepts of comprehensive consent, it was applauded a leap in the right direction.
The Obama administration has been clear from the beginning in making the prevention of sexual assault a priority. Rape is rape is rape, said Vice President Joe Biden back in 2011, leading up to the release of the Its On Us campaign to combat sexual assault on college campuses.
http://feminist.org/blog/index.php/category/founding-feminists/
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President Obama’s Definition of Rape is a Sign of Progress (Original Post)
niyad
Jul 2015
OP
Well, thank you President Obama for speaking about it. When was the last time someone heard
boston bean
Jul 2015
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Gman
(24,780 posts)1. Didn't know anything has changed
The courts have been using Obama's definition for many years.
rock
(13,218 posts)2. In the first part of the speech
He kept his mouth closed. I believe he should of kept that strategy for the other half.
niyad
(113,205 posts)3. wow.. . . just. . . wow. . .
boston bean
(36,220 posts)4. wow is right... WTH, niyad.. the responses are pathetic.
niyad
(113,205 posts)5. and, sadly, completely unsurprising.
boston bean
(36,220 posts)6. Well, thank you President Obama for speaking about it. When was the last time someone heard
a President speaking about rape in this fashion, about the US?
rock
(13,218 posts)7. Well, he, himself in the first part of the speech
said he wasn't supposed to make comments about ongoing investigations. A good rule which he temporarily applied and then suddenly felt he had to make a comment where none was needed. Just my take.
niyad
(113,205 posts)8. ummm, never?
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)11. Ewwww, and you've been here since 2001? nt
And I'll add - Consent to a drug doesn't confer consent to sex.
niyad
(113,205 posts)10. exactly!