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maracajaazul t1_jadj6ky wrote

Damn Im glad things are not like that over here. In order to enroll into a college over here you must do an exam. What you did extracurricular and your gpa did not matter at all as long as you got the sufficient score. It was very convenient for me as I got a relatively good grade for the long term effort(little) that I did.

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Omnizoom t1_jaddkbk wrote

Not by the definition which requires intercourse

It’s not like he was standing over her with his pants down and she cut it off , he threatened her she stood her ground he backed off , she grabbed a weapon and followed him to the shower and attacked him

Dudes an ass but she also had the opportunity to just leave and chose to mutilate him , if it was a man mutilating a woman would you be so kind to them ?

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Jarjarthejedi t1_jad8v26 wrote

Most likely there was a specific procedure, but the tech was never trained on it or the police didn't follow it, so they had to default to the standard one for a regular customer. Lots of call center techs literally don't have a choice in how to do their job, they have to follow the system because they cannot access information until they do.

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PlauntieM t1_jad772k wrote

Coercing someone into sex is rape regardless of how physically "harmless" the coercion is.

Rape is usually comitted by someone the victim knows and trusted who uses their power over and/or intimate access to the victim. Like this guy did by using the intimate video he had of her to threaten her. Not all rape is done in some dangerous back alley by goons, most rape isn't. Being physically overpowered or violently attacked isn't a requirement for something to be considered "rape".

In this situation he was trying to coerce her into having sex after she already said no (i.e. he didn't accept her "no" and is threatening her into giving into him raping her) by threatening her privacy and reputation, not with physical violence. This is absolutely still rape since she already said no and he's threatening her.

Rape doesn't have to be a physically violent attack to be considered "rape", many victims freeze or fawn or comply and "let it happen" to protect themselves from seemingly worse harm. Not physically fighting back is still not consent.

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TheWeirdByproduct t1_jad6ukz wrote

Yes, powerful misandrist vibes around. You can see it when they joke about prison rape but only about men, when they argue whether mutilation or other violent retribution was deserved/understandable but only for men, and pretty much whenever violence and punishment are brought up.

For some reason, men seem to be considered more inherently guilty and deserving of punishment, even when their guilt is the same; an obnoxious loon on the metro deserves to be punched, but only when they're a man.

It's a sexist double standard as it makes it easy to imagine a situation where a man deserves to be punished with violence, but hard to imagine a situation where a woman does.

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