{"id":1655,"date":"2005-06-28T12:23:04","date_gmt":"2005-06-28T19:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/06\/28\/new-rape-culture-thread\/"},"modified":"2005-06-28T12:23:04","modified_gmt":"2005-06-28T19:23:04","slug":"new-rape-culture-thread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=1655","title":{"rendered":"New Rape Culture and Gender Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"

Okay here’s the “sequel” to my other Rape Culture post. For a lead-in I bring you the very brutally honest and true comment by Q Grrl <\/strong><\/a>from the ‘Amanda presents some real Anti-Rape Advice’ <\/a><\/strong>thread.<\/p>\n

Q Grrl Writes:<\/strong>
\nJune 28th, 2005 at 11:35 am<\/em><\/p>\n

You know, I honestly tried to come into this thread on rape with an open mind, hoping that, well, we wouldn’t get the same tired bullshit about prevention, the false equivalency between men in high crime districts and the rape of women, and the otherwise general unwillingness to address rape as rape. But I can’t do it. At least not the open mind part.<\/p>\n

Having said that, I fully believe that the ONLY way a woman can control\/plan for\/avoid\/restrict rape is to NOT BE BORN A WOMAN.<\/p>\n

Enough said about that. Now my mind is no longer open and you all can deal with my anger at your (general) unwillingness to address rape per se and to make excuses for the men that rape.<\/p>\n

Virginia writes:<\/p>\n

“Actually, as a health psychology student, I can appreciate your analogy to safety-related behaviors such as looking both ways before crossing the street. “?<\/p>\n

And not to pick on Virginia, but I’m using her very succinct summary of the posts above hers as a launching pad.<\/p>\n

This “analogy”? of safety-related behavior assumes that all parties involved wish to avoid the same risks. No two drivers at any given time want to hit each other. The risk is fairly equivalent between both parties. No particular driver wants to hit any particular pedestrian, both believing that the risks outweigh the benefit in any particular situation.<\/p>\n

Rape is none of the above. Rape carries benefits; for those of you unwilling to look at those benefits, the are:<\/p>\n

Male orgasm
\nMale access to sex performed on women’s bodies
\nMale restriction of women’s access to public space; to include parks, neighborhoods, public facilities (banks, grocery stores, schools, court houses, etc.), government facilities.
\nMale restriction of women’s political voices (just go to dKos if you wonder what I mean)
\nMale restriction on women in combat
\nMale restriction on responsibility for other men
\netc.<\/p>\n

Furthermore, the sidetracking of rape discussions into issues of how men are also socially hurt is complete horseshit. You cannot place rape in a vacuum. Rape co-exists with prohibitions on women’s access to birth control and abortion. Rape co-exists with the institution of marriage. Rape co-exists with socially condoned dating norms.<\/p>\n

Rape is MOST unlike a man getting high off of recreational drugs and walking around in a high crime district.<\/p>\n

In fact, rape has nothing to do with that.<\/p>\n

But, by all means, we should be socializing girls and women differently. We should socialize them to fight back, to look men straight in the eye, to go for the balls everytime.<\/p>\n

WHAT WE SHOULDN’T BE SOCIALIZING THEM FOR IS THAT IF THEY FAIL TO DO THIS, THEY DESERVE THE OUTCOME OF AN ACTION FREELY CHOSEN BY A MALE PERPETRATOR.<\/p>\n

How is it that ya’ll are capapble of missing this distinction?<\/p>\n

What year is it anyway? 2005?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Lovely and I agree with this :-) So,…. rape culture<\/strong>, gender<\/strong>, women<\/strong>, victim-blaming<\/strong>, men’s responsibility or lack thereof<\/strong>, dating<\/strong>, prevention<\/strong>, marital rape<\/strong>, “boys will be boys<\/strong>,” why do men rape?, patriarchy’s role, acquaintance rape, stranger rape, excusing rape and sexual assault because “guys just can’t help themselves so put all of the burden of prevention on women,” how and why men benefit from rape, how does pornography play into this, shaming of the female victim, men as potential rapists, men and women’s sex drives, relationships, socialization,<\/strong>etc. Have at it!<\/p>\n

One more note, Aegis and the disrespectful and rude troll Nephandus are NOT permitted–hence banned–from commenting on this thread, due to their piss-poor and outright disrespectful behavior towards me and others. Any comments of yours’ on this thread will be automatically deleted and seen as further proof of your refusal to show any respect or consideration of others–especially to the moderator.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Okay here’s the “sequel” to my other Rape Culture post. For a lead-in I bring you the very brutally honest and true comment by Q Grrl from the ‘Amanda presents some real Anti-Rape Advice’ thread. Q Grrl Writes: June 28th, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,31,96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anti-feminists-and-their-pals","category-feminism-sexism-etc","category-rape-intimate-violence-related-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}