Another field where women made important contributions to the founding and then were largely written out of the historical narrative as anything other than adjacent to men.
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I donāt think this has been posted here yet:
Thereās a lot to get angry about, but this really stood out to me:
breastfeeding children count against the 34-person traveling party limit, putting women coaches in an impossible spot.
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Maybe the message will go further (and last longer in peopleās minds) this timeā¦ 
Also recently saw a great episode of the show Sex Education on Netflix that brought up this issue. Hereās a clip and an article about it:
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Yes, I remember that episode, one of many other powerful, humanizing, connection-affirming scenes in a show thatās only ostensibly a teen sex comedy. Canāt wait for the next season.
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really terrible decision by the minnesota state supreme court mad even worse by being unanimousā
from a pay-walled washington post story:
"After a 20-year-old woman took five shots of vodka and a prescription pill, she said she was standing outside a Minneapolis bar in May 2017 when a man invited her and a friend to a party. She agreed but soon found out there was no gathering, she later testified.
She āblacked outā instead, waking up on a couch and found that the man she had just met was allegedly sexually assaulting her, according to court records.
Almost four years later, the Minnesota Supreme Court unanimously ruled this week that Francios Momolu Khalil, 24, cannot be found guilty of rape because the woman got drunk voluntarily beforehand. The decision Wednesday overturned Khalilās prior conviction of third-degree criminal sexual conduct, which had been upheld by an appeals court, and granted him the right to a new trial."
absolutely preposterous decision. i donāt care when she drank or how much she had to drink, if she was unconscious she could not possibly have consented. this is the worst timeline.
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I wonder if theyāll apply this to medicine. Like once a patient has been put under anesthesia they now can be operated on at the pleasure of surgeon and any medical students without consent since they agreed to be put under in the first place.
Because they should.
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Was wondering the same thing about other crimes, like theft. Does every charge become some low-level misdemeanor if the victim voluntarily gets drunk? Asking for friends in the Midwest whoād love to buy some judges and legislators a few rounds of drinksā¦
It was also sickening to read that similar laws/legal definitions exist in the majority of states.
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I will make a special trip to take part in this action.
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So I understand this, in Minnesota, if a woman has had a few drinks, sheās fair game for sexual assault? And women justices thought this was ok? What in all the hells is going on up there?
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to my mind itās objectively worse than the way you stated it. the way i read it, instead of saying that she couldnāt give consent because she was unconscious they ruled that because she was unconscious she couldnāt withhold consent, which really turns things upside down.
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It really is difficult not to think that surely something is missing here.
So itās okay to rape someone because they happen to have rendered themselves basically comatose? Really??
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I think it might be because the state distinguishes between violent/forceful rape and so-called date-rape (which is a gross distinction to make, but not all that uncommon unfortunately) and the ruling means that the perpetrator can/will be charged with a lesser offense. The WaPo article says that heāll be charged with fifth-degree misdemeanor sexual assault (blech) and that the voluntary intoxication loophole is the (old, poorly written) law in many states.
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Remember, itās not really rape if at any point in the evening she was enjoying herself! She got herself drunk, so itās her own fault for being able to be raped. How is a guy to know that she doesnāt want sex, now that she is drunk?
Which is still bullshit. MOST rapes are ādateā rapes.
Basically, they want us to keep our legs shut and be broodmares and nothing more. We are not people to them.
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Damn, that is a take I had just refused to accept. āConsent is assumed, and must be actively denied to be taken as no. In her state she was unable to withdraw consent, therefore there was no rape.ā OMFG 
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Somehow I feel worse that she lied instead of simply saying yes. No need for details beyond Iāll explain more when youāre older.
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More effective if you can tie it to current behavior that includes them: āthereās a reason I never leave you alone with my parentsā or āthatās why I act weird when Iām scaredā or āthatās why Iām so committed to helping you learn how to be a good human beingā. So they know there are long term consequences but also itās possible to make things better.
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