When Is IT Rape?

thetrollking · 2011-05-05T13:01:16+00:00

This line of reasoning has led some women, especially radicalized victims, to justify flinging around the term rape as a political weapon, referring to everything from violent sexual assaults to inappropriate innuendos. Ginny, a college senior who was really raped when she was 16, suggests that false accusations of rape can serve a useful purpose. "Penetration is not the only form of violation," she explains. In her view, rape is a subjective term, one that women must use to draw attention to other, nonviolent, even nonsexual forms of oppression. "If a woman did falsely accuse a man of rape, she may have had reasons to," Ginny says. "Maybe she wasn't raped, but he clearly violated her in some way."

Catherine Comins, assistant dean of student life at Vassar, also sees some value in this loose use of "rape." She says angry victims of various forms of sexual intimidation cry rape to regain their sense of power. "To use the word carefully would be to be careful for the sake of the violator, and the survivors don't care a hoot about him." Comins argues that men who are unjustly accused can sometimes gain from the experience. "They have a lot of pain, but it is not a pain that I would necessarily have spared them. I think it ideally initiates a process of self-exploration. 'How do I see women?' 'If I didn't violate her, could I have?' 'Do I have the potential to do to her what they say I did?' Those are good questions."

I know someone will point out that this was published in 1991 and so what? I don't think anything has really changed for the better, if anything it has only gotten worse.

8 years after this was published a friend of a friend in my social circle in HS, he was a year younger, got caught fooling around with his gf of 2 yrs on school property. She came from a heavily conservative family and didn't want to get into trouble so she initially said that he forced her. Long story short, the charges against him were dropped after she confessed but then the parents wanted statutory charges pressed against him but both sets of parents eventually cooled off. When they, the gf and his parents, went to the house to tell them that it had been worked out they found him haning in a closet with a bag over his head. I guess he learned something from the experience, so did I and many others in that peer group.

A_Pathological_Liar · 2011-05-05T13:14:10+00:00

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mean0dean0 · 2011-05-05T20:12:54+00:00

I totally read the title as "When is Information Technology Rape?"

disposable_human · 2011-05-05T21:46:29+00:00

rape is a subjective term, one that women must use to draw attention to other, nonviolent, even nonsexual forms of oppression.

Well that's crazy, but it's only a 16 year old girl who was raped. She won't be taken seriously by anyone (at least until she ranks up in the movement).

Catherine Comins, assistant dean of student life at Vassar, also sees some value in this loose use of "rape."

Time sure flies...

davou · 2011-05-05T14:25:33+00:00

well I read the first page and when I got to the bottom saw there was nine more.... fuck that, reading is hard!

Liverotto · 2011-05-05T19:44:23+00:00

When Is IT Rape?

When she is bleeding from her rectum.

Or from the other hole if she is not on the rag.

Title	When Is IT Rape?
Author	thetrollking
Upvotes	3
Comments	10
Date	May 5, 2011 12:56 PM UTC (15 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
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