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phantom power

(25,966 posts)
Thu Jun 20, 2013, 03:25 PM Jun 2013

"everyone has a right to do pretty much anything and *not be raped*"

Whenever I see stuff like this, I'm reminded of Amanda Marcotte's excellent observation that Conservatives (and I'm not sure it's just conservative men) have a serious cognitive blind spot to the entire concept of "consent," especially as it applies to women. It's why we see so many Conservative politicians tripping over their own dicks every time they try to address the topic of rape in public. To Conservatives, rape is inherently difficult to distinguish from sex, and it's because of this inability to grasp what "consent" is. At some deep level, they just don't get what all the fuss is about, and it shows whenever they open their mouths.

“What does female sexual freedom mean?” Taranto added, “It means, for this woman, that she had the freedom to get drunk and get in the back seat of a car with this guy.”


I guess the transcribers left off the last part: ... get in the back sear of a car with this guy and not be raped. There's no double standard and it has absolutely nothing to do with "female sexual freedom." The guy had the very same right to get drunk, get in the back of a car and not be raped. In fact, everyone has a right to do pretty much anything and not be raped.

This idea of what constitutes consent is very difficult for some people, usually men, to understand. I don't know why. It's very simple: every person's body belongs to them. They do not ever give it away simply by being in a position in which another person wants it and so they have to give it.

Trying to root out rape and sexual harrassment in he military is only "criminalizing male sexuality" if you assume that men are all naturally prone to rape and sexual harrassment. That says more about the person saying it than it does about men in general, the vast majority of whom treat women as human beings not rape objects.

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2013/06/criminalizing-male-sexuality.html
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"everyone has a right to do pretty much anything and *not be raped*" (Original Post) phantom power Jun 2013 OP
Indeed gcomeau Jun 2013 #1
 

gcomeau

(5,764 posts)
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Thu Jun 20, 2013, 03:57 PM
Jun 2013
“What does female sexual freedom mean?” Taranto added, “It means, for this woman, that she had the freedom to get drunk and get in the back seat of a car with this guy.”


I guess the transcribers left off the last part: ... get in the back sear of a car with this guy and not be raped."


They do tend to leave that last part out a lot don't they? It can be pointed out the woman did something stupid and reckless all day long... that last part of the sentence never goes away though.
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