The Politics of Rape: Debunking the Feminist Myth

HullBredd · 2013-03-10T17:53:14+00:00

I don't know. her being a conservative aside (I haven't really read any other articles she's written), she makes claims in this article that she fails to support. When she's talking about the 1975 book 'Against Our Will—Men, Women and Rape', she says that the author's arguments "had more to do with ideological goals and political expediency than logic and scientific fact". Now this may be true, but we'd have to actually read the book ourselves to verify it, so we can't really mark this statement as lending any substance to her article.

Around paragraph seven she starts a shit storm of unsupported claims. First, I've never come across anything that says 'secular creation' is a tenant of feminism (not to say that no such writings exist..). Also, she argues that rape is not a cultural issue. I don't think it's wise to entirely isolate rape from social factors; behavior and personality is equal parts nature and nurture after all.

" Third is the feminists’ denial of any difference between male and female sexuality," she says in paragraph seven. I'm also not sure that's something all or even most feminists believe. I'd have to do some reading to verify/falsify this. She goes on to use this 'fact' (which from where we're standing may be true and may be false, may be a view held by some/all/none/most feminists) to assert: " Thus, since these feminist women couldn't identify in themselves a sexual urge to rape, then rape by men must also be other than sexually motivated." Even if her first claim was true, she provides no proof that such a logical progression ever took place in feminist theory.

" feminists strategically concluded that if rape was perceived as motivated “only” by sex, then it would be of limited political value" Tonnes of problems here. Who are 'feminists'? To what feminists is she referring? Did they all met in an auditorium and vote on this decision? Where is her proof that such a logical progression ever took place and was accepted by 'all feminists'?

You guys have been duped. If you continue to buy into articles like this, then you are being duped. If you want to learn about feminist theory and how it relates to men's rights, then read literature by actual feminist theorists, don't just read something written with political motivation and instantly accept all the premises it presents for its conclusions as true. I doubt that anyone here can verify the conclusions she reaches, because you'd have to do a shit ton of reading to find out if the premises she lays out are true. Instead of looking at other people's arguments, do the research and reading necessary to form your own opinions. you guys should be ashamed.

ErasmusMRA · 2012-10-14T20:51:48+00:00

Thats more of a conservative shill than a scientist.

yopp343 · 2013-03-08T12:29:42+00:00

You guys dissapoint me. This is the perfect article that describes how feminists view rape. Some people don't see brilliance when they see it.

Title	The Politics of Rape: Debunking the Feminist Myth
Author	ErasmusMRA
Upvotes	6
Comments	32
Date	October 14, 2012 7:58 PM UTC (13 years ago)
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