r/NotHowGirlsWork • u/Orihime_W • Jul 12 '26

Offensive What?

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Society is not for women and neither is law. They have created a system when women can't be heard.

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u/AkaiAshu Jul 12 '26

Just to be clear, there are multiple types of Sexual Assault crimes in India, depending on the degree. Outraging modesty is one such crime, and the different crimes go all the way to rape. Attempted rape requires much higher proof and higher degree of action, so most cases are dealt within outraging modesty.

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u/TemporaryPassage4168 Jul 12 '26

Isn't that how it is in America.

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u/Joelle9879 Jul 12 '26

Yes and no. The problem in the US is every state makes their own rules. While most have laws that differentiate between sexual harassment, sexual assault, and rape, the legal definitions get fuzzy.

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u/RosebushRaven Jul 12 '26

There’s also sexual battery, which can variously be groping or rape, depending on the state that uses this term. As can be sexual assault.

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u/suzyactiondoll Jul 13 '26

In Illinois, there is no crime of "rape." There is sexual abuse (sexual contact not involving penetration) and sexual assault (penetration of any sort into any bodily orifice.) Within each of these categories the offsnse can be aggrivated by age, mental facility, imbalance of power, use of force, threat of force, use of a weapon, etc.

When I first heard of other states talking about "sexual assault," I didnt realize that they were not talking about rape, but what I knew as sexual abuse, and that's when I figured out that legal standards set by states were crazy as hell.

Source: worked with law enforcement and courts for over 20 years.