Teri Kanefield: It's All About Controlling Women

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After a [relevant] digression into the history of rape laws and how laws in the past reinforced the patriarchy, I offer a blueprint for moving forward.

Here it is on Substack: https://terikanefield.substack.com/p/its-all-about-controlling-women…
And Facebook: https://facebook.com/terikanefieldauthor…

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It's All About Controlling Women
A certain type of person had a predictable reaction to the news that the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade: Of course. It’s all about controlling women. I will not write about the history of laws...
10:18 AM · Jun 24, 2022

https://terikanefield.substack.com/p/its-all-about-controlling-women

*snip*

You see, laws reflect cultural biases, and for most of world history, laws were mostly about keeping women in their place.

For much of world history, rape was a property crime. An unmarried girl was her father’s property. A married woman was her husband’s property. If a virgin was raped, the property damage was to her father. If she was married, the damage was to her husband.

If she wasn’t a virgin and wasn’t married, there was no crime (because the property was already damaged). A man couldn’t rape his wife (his own property) and rape of enslaved women wasn’t a crime. Even after the Civil War, the rape of a black woman wasn’t recognized as a crime.

The law was intended to protect (white) men from false accusations; not to protect women from attack.

The social hierarchy in the United States prior to the twentieth century determined how rape was treated.

Black men were lynched if accused by a white woman.

A poor white woman who accused a more powerful man was not believed.

Attempted rape wasn’t a crime because there was no property damage—what Franklin Graham was getting at when he said there was no crime because Kavanaugh respected Dr. Ford enough not to go through with it:




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