What is the ifeminist position on date rape?
First, let’s distinguish between rape and consensual sex. When a person has sex with another person consensually and later regrets it, that does not constitute rape in an reasonable sense, and nobody should be punished for another person changing her or his mind about a choice she or he made. That said, ifeminists repudiate the use of force by people of either gender to coerce sexual acts by people of either gender. Abhorrent as it is, however, it has become evident that the solution to such problems is not more government intervention. Governments have demonstrated their utter incompetence at dealing with rape cases. For example, Los Angeles County law enforcement officials lost or destroyed evidence in 1000+ rape and sex murder cases. ABC News reports that hundreds of thousands of rape kits- with the potential to put away criminals or exonerate wrongly accused persons- have sat for years on government shelves unanalyzed.
