Some raw data
Women make up 50.7% of the population of the USA.
Women are represented in congress by 17% of senators and 16.4% of representatives.
Statewide elective office women hold 21.8% of the seats.
State legislatures women hold 21.6% of senate seats and 24.3% of house seats.
Yet we are often singled out for special treatment, isn't that wonderful...
Oh right.
What we are allowed to do with our bodies is government business.
What clothes we should wear to prevent rape and just how forceful that rape has to be before it is worthy of the name.
We need to be wired for sound, photographed, treated as an incubator, lectured at, and generally harangued so that we don't make a a fluffy headed decision. In other words laws must be passed to protect us from ourselves, and yet when protecting ourselves from rape we must go the whole mile.
How we dress has a direct effect on male testosterone; the shorter the skirt the greater the acceptable force before we gratefully submit. I suppose by wearing a Burqa we would remove ourselves from sight, and hence show solidarity by helping men overcome their uncontrollable libido?
I wonder what the noise would be like if men were singled out for this special attention? You were wearing a T shirt? You were asking for it; but wearing socks with sandals will probably protect you from any form of lust, so no socks, no case.
When any group is singled out for special legislation and treatment [there are hundreds of attempts every year] it usually is not a good sign there is usually some form of unhealthy underlying reason hence:
Women cannot be left to determine their own health care and must show adequate resistance to avoid impregnation.
Women endanger themselves by what they wear.
Nice; I always wanted looking after....
How about some sperm laws?
Oh and most importantly; wearing socks with sandals needs outlawing....
Updated by LaFeminista at Fri May 06, 2011 at 07:53 AM CEST
Just a note about pay equality laws etc; they should not have been necessary in the first place, they demonstrate an unhealthy underlying reason.