Redefining Rape

So the pro-abortion crowd is all a-tizzy over the crazy idea that rape should actually have a specific meaning.  It seems that the term “Rape” has thus far existed in a morass of wonderful ambiguity.  Until now those beacons of feminine equality have enjoyed unfettered discretion in regard to what they wanted the word to mean on any given day.  You see the word rape at one time in antiquity meant a man forcing himself upon a woman or girl.  Well that you see, was really just too restrictive.  It was really just too un-ambiguous. So, over time the word has conveniently and wonderfully become quite pliable and useful for most any agenda.
  In the abortion funding world where the word controls virtually hundreds of millions of dollars of funding for “Rape” victims the word has until now been most wonderfully vague.  So as the constant flow of taxpayer dollars flow endlessly into the abortion industry to “protect” the victims of rape and incest one might logically ask: “If we are paying millions of dollars to un-pregnate these millions of victims, what are we doing to the victimizers that are abusing these victims and generating millions in costs to the taxpayers?” “If there are millions of victims, there must be millions of villains, right? How many of them have been prosecuted? How many of them have been prevented from harming others? Well… pretty much zero.  Yep, one really has to wonder why instead of doing the slightest thing to these perpetrators of this horrendous crime, we just put the victims through a dangerous procedure to eliminate the evidence and then send the victim on their way, often arm in arm with their rapist. Yep, brings a tear to your eye, how much these abortionists, their staffs, and abortion apologists care about these girls.

But back to “Rape.”  What does it mean? Well, as mentioned previously, it means just about anything the feministas want it to.  Now rape is rape. Forcing a person to have sex against their will is rape. And we really can’t have “Men” having sex with children. Statutory rape laws codify this, but in wondrously arbitrary fashion. The statutory rape laws vary wildly from state to state, and mere seconds determine the difference between an adult having consensual sex, and a “child” being “raped.” Really, the speed at which an amorous couple disrobes can determine whether the man is her boyfriend, or a sex offender. But yeah, we need statutory rape laws to keep the adults and the children safely in their own realms, and arbitrary is really the best we are ever going to get in the inherently ambiguous line between childhood and adulthood. 

But as Arlo Guthrie so aptly said about 18 minutes into that song – “That’s not what I came to talk to you about…” 

There is a newly invented kind of rape that has become an amazing cudgel of the feminista’s for squeezing zillions of taxpayer dollars into the abortion industries coffers.  This kind of rape is known as the “Too Drunk To Form Proper Consent - Rape.” Now what does “Too Drunk to Form Proper Consent” mean? Well I will cut and paste the abortion proponents exact words from their complaint about legislators attempts to actually define the word: “under the influence of alcohol.” Yep, if she had anything to drink, you are a rapist. How cool is that?  So, yeah, you know me… can’t leave well enough alone – I have a couple of teensy weensy questions.

1.       What is too drunk? Clearly, unconscious, or unaware of what is going on crosses the line. But doesn’t “How Drunk” inherently defy definition? Yes, Blood alcohol content is somewhat defining, but I have friends that are relatively unaffected on the same BAC that would render me unconscious. And maybe, just maybe, we should instead of leaving the fate of hapless men everywhere to the arbitrary whims of women with potential day after remorse, perhaps tell our daughters, etc., to not put themselves in situations like this. So Yeah, I can hear you screaming: Blame the victim, you pig!” Well I can tell you that any person who pours enough alcohol into themselves that they are unconscious or otherwise unable to defend themselves against the unscrupulous are as much a victim of their own stupidity as anything else.

2.       Who was raped? I mean, if the man and the woman were both “Too Drunk To Form Proper Consent” then was the woman raped, The man, or both? No, that is a serious question. And I expect you are giving the same incredulous look that so many I have asked this of give. “Well it’s the woman of course,” They usually say. “Men can’t be raped.” Well there are thousands of prison inmates who would most heartily disagree with you on that. “Well women can’t rape men.” Why not? I mean, this is not an issue of forcible rape but rather about how inebriated you are. Can not men be as inebriated as women? And what about a case, a not uncommon case, where an inebriated woman provides an equally inebriated man considerable “assistance” just so that he can function adequately. Is she still being raped? And why is it not he who is the “victim?”  Soooo anyway, it is just downright convenient that any woman “under the influence of alcohol” has been “raped,” and is thereby eligible for a federally funded abortion.  Now what do you think the woman is going to do with the box that says check here if you want a free abortion due to the fact that you were raped because you had a Budweiser before sex?

So yeah, by all means let’s not define rape. We can just go on and on funding abortion in cases of rape while leaving the word to mean whatever the person speaking wishes it to mean. And we certainly should not wonder that with this “exception” to the prohibition of federal funding for abortion why virtually everyone wanting a free abortion on the taxpayer dime has been “raped” in some way or another.  And above all, we should not do anything to pursue justice against the perpetrators of this endless stream of “rapists” or to prevent them from creating countless more victims.  And perhaps most of all I am left to wonder with the broad and completely arbitrary meanings given by the abortion proponents to the word rape why it cannot be used to define what is being done to the taxpayers who are  told to just shut up and take it.