Fun fact!

Yesterday I discovered that the myth that women are mostly/only raped by strangers outside of the home first appeared in the eighteenth century. Turns out the emergence of the middle class in Britain and the way in which families began to change led to all this thinking that it was "natural" for women to stay at home while men went out working - and this also led to the removal of servants from the notion of the 'family' and the development of the idea of the 'housewife', which made marriage an employment contract whereby women did the work the servants would have done, except they weren't paid. So obviously it was desirable that women did not leave the physical confines of the home, and rape lies were a good way of ensuring this happened.

It's amazing to me that this myth flourishes so today when it's so OLD. Also (obviously this makes a lot of sense, but I'd never considered it this way before) it came out of a(nother) totally misogynistic and reductive imposed theory of social practice. Essentially, WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH EVERYTHING slash this is quite interesting.

BERG