What motivates the outrage over Julian Assange's Political Asylum?

[riderinthestorm]

62. Patriarchal and paternal structure designed to strip women of their own authority

You do realize that don't you?

If a woman can't even make her own decisions about what happened between her and her partner, that's misogyny masking as a law.

Have you ever participated in a rape trial intaglio? Its humiliating and degrading - every last bit of sperm and vaginal lubrication is discussed, anus licking, how many strokes, how fast, loud noises, buttocks here or there.... Women who are motivated to testify because they seek justice get through knowing that there's going to be some resolution.

Forcing hostile witnesses to testify against their consensual sex partner has got to be a perv's greatest dream - all details exposed to a salacious audience. Yet these women get to be slut shamed for what? So their consensual sex partner goes to jail for doing exactly what both of them wanted. And you think this is okay?

I work at a rape crisis center as a volunteer advocate and I can tell you that forcing any woman onto the stand is going to produce a very, very bad result for any woman. Unless or until that woman decides to do it on their own, the stripping away of their very own authority produces much greater damage.