Even The Wolf likely can't clean up Harvey Weinstein's pending troubles

Statutory rape is pretty straightforward, as consent cannot be given because of age. Seems entirely different that what we’re talking about.

 

Analysis of the law shows that far fewer men both experience and/or report sexual assault than women.

Some men don't report it because they don't think it's a crime. Some men don't report it because they liked it.

Not a lot of men don't report it because they were coerced or shamed into silence. That's the difference.

I'm on record supporting widening and clarifying the definition. That's a separate issue.

 

Does it qualify as outing to eliminate Sean Hannity as @SnarkShark's real-life identity?

 

She had consent. She just had no reasonable way of knowing it.

 

What argument is this in opposition to?

 

She had consent from someone who had no idea that she was going to do that and could not have had any idea that she was going to do that?

That's interesting.

 

I mean, they're prosecuted under the same laws that govern sexual assault.

 

No, different laws. Same section. Different provisions. Different sentencing schemes. And so on.

 

No, she didn't. She acted without consent. You're twisting yourself into some truly ridiculous rhetorical knots trying to justify a way of defining these terms that doesn't work.

 

The general disbelief some people have shown that sexual assault against women is treated differently than sexual assault against men.

 

It shouldn't be.

 

But consent isn’t part of the equation, because the minor is legally incapable of concent.