A friend says: Although consent or non-consent doesn’t seem to come up at all in the last fork of the flow-chart. So maybe not as shocking, but still a bit disturbing.
To which I reply:
(12:31:12 AM) EcnaGreenStorm: Right, there was something I didn’t include explicitly in the flowchart though
(12:31:12 AM) EcnaGreenStorm: at the end, the purple question mark implies it
(12:31:12 AM) EcnaGreenStorm: Why isn’t there a consent fork?
(12:31:18 AM) EcnaGreenStorm: We’re left with no answer
(12:31:40 AM) EcnaGreenStorm: So I was thinking about how a lot of the law seems to have come out of the Moses judging various situations as they came up
(12:31:56 AM) EcnaGreenStorm: And if he’s out there making these flowcharts for his judge lieutenants
(12:32:18 AM) EcnaGreenStorm: As he’s explaining the stuff from left to right
(12:32:58 AM) EcnaGreenStorm: By the time he gets to the right most branch, we’ve already talked about consent and said that she’s innocent and it’s the man who’s at fault
(12:33:13 AM) EcnaGreenStorm: in the case of her not giving consent
(12:33:19 AM) EcnaGreenStorm: And his punishment is rape
(12:33:31 AM) EcnaGreenStorm: Or atleast, that’s how I think a judge lieutenant would reason
(12:33:38 AM) EcnaGreenStorm: although it’s not based on anything in the text
(12:34:37 AM) EcnaGreenStorm: And looking at Exodus, we see that the precedent for a virgin who had sex with a man to not marry him
(12:34:43 AM) EcnaGreenStorm: but the dowry must still be paid
(12:35:16 AM) EcnaGreenStorm: It certainly weakens the “rape with benefits” reading.
(12:37:48 AM) EcnaGreenStorm: So there’s something I want to know
(12:37:52 AM) EcnaGreenStorm: about what I’ve just said
(12:39:09 AM) EcnaGreenStorm: The first of them is how this affects your life, how you feel about the feminist issues raised by the verse, how strong you think the rape with benefits reading remains … how any of this impacts you.