batyatoon: (mightier than the sword)
batyatoon ([personal profile] batyatoon) wrote in [personal profile] avevale_intelligencer 2014-07-18 03:51 pm (UTC)

You're absolutely right about what we need to do in terms of raising (not sure "breeding" is the right word) a generation of men who would never force themselves on women. But we also need safeguards in place against those who would and do, even if they eventually become statistical outliers.

The "all heterosexual sex is rape" canard was originally meant as a statement about power imbalance -- essentially saying that in a society where women have no legal right to refuse sex to their husbands, all consent between married couples is impaired. Which is I think a statement with some value to it. Turning it into this vile notion that sex is only ever something for men and that women can't and don't ever want it is just one of many, many things that radical feminism does wrong.

(I feel like I ought to say that this post is not about feminism by virtue of being about radical feminism, any more than a post about the Westboro Baptist Church is a post about Christianity. They don't represent feminism and they don't really claim to.)

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