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from: `mcp` gf010w5035{at}blueyon
date: 2005-03-02 13:38:00
subject: Re: Double standards is NOT what feminism is about!

"Hyerdahl"  wrote in message
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>
> MCP wrote:
> > http://www.hisside.com/
>
>
> >
> > Criminalizing 'Reckless Sex'--Safeguard for Women or  New Way to Herd
> Men Into Jail?
>
> What feminist group has sponsored this law?  Feminists won't accept the
> blame for laws they did not sponsor.
>
> > Should men go to jail for having sex without a condom?
>
> No more than women should.
>
> Law professors Ian Ayres and Katherine Baker say yes. Under their
> highly-publicized "Reckless Sex" proposal, a "defendant
would be guilty
> of reckless sexual conduct if, in a first sexual encounter with another
> particular person, the defendant
> > had sexual intercourse without using a condom."
>
> That's ridiculous.
>
> >
> The penalty for the "guilty" man would be up to six months
in jail. The
> authors say their proposal  would help increase condom use and the
> "quality of communication in first sexual encounters" and
thus "reduce
> the spread of sexually transmitted disease and decrease the incidence
> of acquaintance
> > rape."
>
> So, basically, men would be required to cover their own member while
> women have no duties there?  Seems unfair to me.
>
>
> > Vermont Law School professor Cheryl Hanna opposes the
"reckless sex">
> proposal, noting the gender double standard and also that the new law
> "gives the government unwarranted intrusion into our private
lives" and
> will mean "women will be at greater risk for sexual assault because the
> focus will now be on condoms instead of consent."
>
> Well, I'm not sure one necessarily follows the other, but it's still a
> bad law proposal for it's very inequity.

Double standards,lies,and "SPECIAL" rights for anyone with 2 bumps and a
c{at}{at}{at}
IS what ALL feminism is about!!

MCP




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