Case in point:
OSLO (Reuters)
A Norwegian court has sentenced a woman to nine months in jail for raping a man, the first such conviction in the Scandinavian country that prides itself for its egalitarianism.
The 31-year-old man fell asleep on a sofa at a party in January last year and told the court in the western city of Bergen he woke to find the 23-year-old woman was having oral sex with him.
Under Norwegian law, all sexual acts with someone who is "unconscious or for other reasons unable to oppose the act" are considered rape.
The court sentenced the woman Wednesday to nine months in jail and ordered her to pay 40,000 Norwegian crowns ($6,355) in compensation.
"This is a very harsh sentence," the woman's lawyer, Per Magne Kristiansen, told the Norwegian news agency NTB. The woman argued the man had been awake and consented.
The prosecutor had sought a 10-month sentence and argued the court should not be more lenient with a woman than a man. It was Norway's first conviction of a woman for rape.
Norway has long traditions of equality -- 40 percent of the cabinet of Prime Minister Kjell Magne Bondevik, for instance, are women.
Please indulge me the soapbox for a sec...
Okay, you men are great big teases because when you sleep you often get, ummm, happy in your sleep! It looks like consent to me! In the past, I often found myself unable to resist the temptation, so I guess that makes me a rapist. My experience says ... men are grouchy when they get woken up unless you can use creative methods to wake them.
But based on this news article...
MORNING HEAD HAS BEEN CANCELLED!
Sorry, guys, but I guess my diabolical methods are going to now be limited to torturing you while you drive the car. At least then I know you're awake and aware of what is going on. I apologize in advance for any fatal accidents I cause with road head, but I just can't risk a prison sentence.
Image courtesy of nolefdetnaw as this is an example of what it is like to drive in a car with me...
On a side note, do you ever wonder how he could possibly be driving with my legs hung out the window, he's ALWAYS smoking and apparently holding a camera, too?
So anyway, if you are as outraged as me about the morning head situation, write to your elected officials or something!
Love to you,
~Suzy
P.S. There are more vacation pics over in nolefdetnaw's pics folder. I'm still working through mine.
POLITICALLY CORRECT DISCLAIMER:
Just for the record, I do not condone rape or any other violent crime committed by either sex towards either sex. It just sounds like a dangerous precident for any of you men who like assertive women.
as for the whole rape thing, two comments:
1. RAPE BAD. i think we are all on the same page with that one.
2. i have lived my entire adult life waiting for someone to wake me up with a BJ - what the fuck is wrong with that guy?