Rape
“Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.” – Henry Kissinger
“If women didn’t exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.” – Aristotle Onassis
I was reading a debate earlier about a topic that I heard way too often in my lifetime:
Is rape about power or is rape about sex?
The feminists both male and female were saying rape is about power. The rest of the people were saying it’s about sex. They’re both right and they’re both wrong. Rape is about power and sex. Because sex is power and power is sex.
Men historically accumulate power and status to get sex. Women historically ration out sex strategically to get access to power and status. So yes rape is about male desire for power. But male desire about power is about sex, meaning that rape is ultimately about sex because any attempt to achieve power by men is ultimately about sex.
Related: The latest chapter, Part 7, in Satoshi Kanozawa’s series Men do everything they do in order to get laid.
(See, how’s that for a short post?)
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Quite right.
I always thought real rapists were losers rejected by women to the point of vengeful rage. No justification, but understandable.
Your equation sex = power is one of those things that people kinda know deep down but deny to support their ideals.
And I run into resistance when pointing out that money = power. Seems like a duh to me.
But no one denies that money = sex.
good post. i’m not sure how I missed this. i do, however, think that you’ve missed an element to this issue.
let’s say that you’re a laborer. you work eight hours one day and get paid a hundred bucks. you head home, but before you make it there some guy mugs you and takes the hundred bucks. he’s taken your money, but he’s also taken your time. he has effectively turned you into his slave for the day. now imagine if you tried to claim that his mugging you was not really about money, rather it was about the mugger exerting control over you. technically, you’d be correct, but that argument leaves much to be desired. that’s exactly the argument that feminists make about rape.
the feminist desire to paint rape as a crime of power is part of their desire to turn an individual criminal act that into an act of political violence that men, as a class, commit against women, as a class. the individual act of sex is often about power. most men like to feel powerful and dominant in bed and many women like to feel that they’re being “taken” by their man. most people, however, are perfectly able to inhabit these roles in the bedroom without it turning into violence or misogyny in the rest of their lives.
this particular feminist canard, like most, operates as a means of expanding female power by constraining make behavior. if you’re afraid to be dominant, afraid of seducing her, then she retains most of the power. a man without the ability to seduce is rendered beta, and, therefore, at the control of the woman. it also operates as a shit test, since only the real alphas are going to recognize this for the bs that it is.
j r´s last blog ..“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—forever.”
I don’t understand what the element I missed was.
not missed in the sense of overlooked, but something you didn’t mention. your post is about power as a means of getting sex. sex, however, is also a means of exercising power. feminists take that and twist into something which it isn’t.
really, i just like to use any chance i can to spout of about how feminsim is less about equality and more about enabling female power at the expense of men.
j r´s last blog ..“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—forever.”
I thought the notion that sex is also a means of exercising power was made clear in the post when I said “sex is power and power is sex.” The point is that the two are inextricably intertwined.
Not trying to be nitpicky here as it was a very good comment, but I wanted to make the point that it is expanding on a point I was making rather than supplying a point I missed altogether.
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