"Rape is simply sex (I am talking about 'husband-rape' here)... Women enjoy sex, so rape cannot be such a terrible physical ordeal…To suggest that rape, when conducted without violence, is a serious crime is like suggesting force-feeding a woman chocolate cake is a heinous offence.”
I confess to having little knowledge about the goings-on of British politics, but it's staggering to me that a man so audacious, with misogyny so deeply rooted that he shares it publically on the internet could have gotten so far in politics. Certainly the British are not mindlessly supporting bigotry-- So if one blog post can bring this man down, can we assume that until this point said bigotry was not public? And if so, how many other politicians are harboring like-minded philosophies on women's health, and how far will they get in the political system before we realize them? Am I missing something here?
Londonist
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I think "To suggest that rape, when conducted without violence, is a serious crime is like suggesting force-feeding a woman chocolate cake is a heinous offence" is probably the funniest, most beautiful thing I have ever read.
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