Sexism

Citation Needed.

What was being said that needed to be Thumped?

edited 11th Dec '17 5:09:48 AM by FieldMarshalFry

Edit: Actually, I don't think I'm allowed to answer anything about that.

edited 11th Dec '17 5:26:49 AM by AnotherDuck

That question goes against the purpose of thumping

So just found out that the USA had some States with Marital Rape License up until 1993.

Holy fuck, you guys.

That's an improvments over us, we had it until 2 years ago. ._.;

In my personal experience, I've had a friend where that was the case in practice, about five or so years ago. Lived in Texas. She decided to escape and go under the radar since, so I've not heard from her.

edited 11th Dec '17 2:03:08 PM by AnotherDuck

Sure that the Marital Rape License is already gone in the US?

Were they legally enforced until then or was it like the US states that still have a sodomy laws on the books and the one US state (edit: it was Mississippi, of course it was Mississippi) that only outlawed slavery a few years ago (edit: 2013 to be precise).

edited 11th Dec '17 2:11:28 PM by Silasw

It's still legaly enforced in practice even if it is illegal on the books.

And from the sound of it that might be the case in the United States too.

I... WHAT?!

Keep in mind that just because something's on the books doesn't mean it's enforced (or enforceable), like the sodomy laws or slavery. Still darkly hilarious.

Yep, several US states still have their sodomy laws on the books, they’re not enforced but they are kept on the books because the state government would still like to be able to enforce them, but the feds step them.

Mississippi, it shouldnt be a surprise, this is the state that still flies the Confederate battle flag (due to them having made their state flag be the confederate battle flag on top of the French flag), it was a long campaign by one committed individual in Mississippi that finally got it to ratify the 13th amendment back in 2013.

edited 11th Dec '17 2:32:35 PM by Silasw

Holy fuck.

Agian the reverse is also true some times, while a ritual rape is now technical illegal back home.....

None of the courts enforce it, and always rule with the husband.

Legally, removing a law from any document is a time intensive and rather annoying process.

It is much easier to pretend it doesn't exist. You can find every sort of outdated or weird laws in every country. it gets much worse at federalist governments where the districts and states have the autonomy to create their own laws within the constitutional limits.

Sometimes you get some weird laws like not being allowed to put an icecream cone on your back pocket.

Even in Brazil, things like killing in defense of owns honor, martial rape and killing adulterous spouses were legal in some regions until a while ago.Though the honor killings aren't written in law they were accepted as defense argument a few decades ago.

edited 11th Dec '17 5:03:39 PM by AngelusNox

That law isn't weird, its how they stole horses back when horses were something that were worth a lot of money and important.

By putting the ice cream in your back pocket the horse would just follow you, and you could claim that you didn't steal it, it just followed you home.

So they marked that on the books as illegal to prevent it.

That just supports their point, that law is no longer valid and thus removing it wouldn't be worth the time.

Good point, I am just so used to it being questioned as to why it was a law in the first place when people bring up ridiculous laws, when that one actually did have a point.... at some point.

Horses are still worth a fair bit of money, so I fail to see why that loophole should be reopened.

Same with most of that list, bathing in public fountains, yeah still gross, bear wrestling, still wrong, not having wiper on your car, still dangerous, impersonating a priest, still wrong, baiting cattle onto railway tracks, still terrible, wearing a mask in public, something that’s being recently outlawed in a bunch of places.

The lantern law is kinda silly but makes sense if it’s just about alerting other vehicles to your presence, the women in divorce one (which I’d bet the article is wrong about and was written by a man) makes sense if society expects women to become homemaker and thus give up any chance at future earning.

The only stupid one is the fake mustashe one, honestly the main thing that that list make me think of as stupid is the person who wrote it.

edited 11th Dec '17 5:50:44 PM by Silasw

Wearing masks shouldn't be illegal any where TBH, there are plenty of legitimate uses for them.... but this is veering off topic.

The issue at hand is how outdated laws, specially those regarding sex abuse and martial rape are still laws mostly because people just forgot they were there and stopped enforcing them.

That is until someone actually bothered to look up for them and patch them out, so no smart ass digs an outdated law to get scot free because of a technicality.

Marital Rape is not outdated because they don't enforce it and forgot that it is there.

Both back home and apparently in the US as has been covered, it may be illegal now but the courts STILL enforce it.... as in they will side with the husband and say that it is the wifes duty.

It is the oppisite of "outdated but forgot about its existance"

edited 11th Dec '17 6:50:33 PM by Imca

I saw an article in a print copy of the New York Times, about why more sexual harassment claims aren't brought up to company Human Resources departments - in short, they are, and then HR is one more tool used to hammer the accusers. Partial quote of the article, emphasis mine (because I don't feel like typing it all and can't access NYT website from work):