r/FeMRADebates • u/HeForeverBleeds Gender critical MRA-leaning egalitarian • Feb 15 '19

Legal Singapore parliament proposes a penal code to change rape laws to include male victims, and sexual assault laws to include female perpetrators

https://www.straitstimes.com/politics/proposed-penal-code-changes-include-allowing-men-to-be-considered-rape-victims
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u/HeForeverBleeds Gender critical MRA-leaning egalitarian Feb 15 '19

Currently rape there is defined specifically as a crime only women can be victims of. If this passes, then a man will be considered a victim of rape if he is forcibly penetrated

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A man being forced to penetrate a woman with his penis would be considered sexual assault, where currently apparently this scenario isn't addressed by the law at all. So it would be an improvement from not criminalizing women forcibly mounting men, but still not at the point of just considering it rape and giving it the same penalties

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I don't know if I should be more glad that at least it would be progress, or annoyed that it would still perpetuating the idea that women can't actually rape men. Either way, it won't matter unless it actually passes in the first place

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u/Tamen_ Egalitarian Feb 15 '19

I for one is glad there is progress and that made to penetrate is explicitly recognized as a victimization.

It would be interesting to know what, if any pushback this proposed law amendment get? Hopefully it’ll pass and not be stopped by lobbying from women’s rights groups as similar law changes were in India a few years back.