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> the victim is the man whose woman was damaged
Please don't troll HN. The last thing we need on divisive topics is people stirring up worse flamewars.
Re:The Story of Why I Left Riot Games
by dragonwriter on Monday August 27, 2018 @09:48PM
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> Well, technically rape is a property crime, and the victim is the man whose woman was damaged, but that's beside the point?
Technically, it's not. Historically in some places and tubes it may have been, but “was” and “is” are different things.
While I'm not deeply familiar with the legal systems of all of these countries, I know at least one, and probably several, or the countries that maintain 'sharia law' still define rape as a property crime. "Was" here is restricted to only certain parts of the world.
> technically rape is a property crime
No. Not in most of the Western world it isn't today.
I was trying to show how usages change, I shouldn't try to be clever after business hours. But at one time the loosening of norms around language and women was seen as a progressive thing, a breaking down of barriers and back room type behavior, but it seems like we've run up to the limit of how far it can go.