Some more Feminism 101, because loud SJWs don't know stuff (much at all, really), & it's irksome. (Apologies for Twitter limitations).
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The reason - or a reason - some feminists argue that only men can rape is because they see rape as a socio-structural phenomenon, part
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of the apparatus of male domination. So, for example, Brownmiller called rapists "the shock troops of patriarchy" (IIRC), and argued
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that rape and the fear of rape is a fundamental part of the structure of oppression of women.
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Men can be sexually assaulted by women, of course, but such acts, which almost always lack the actual & symbolic violence associated
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with forced penetration, are not inserted into the same nexus of power relations, and lack the systemic quality that accords rape its
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central role in the psycho-social oppression of women.
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I'm not endorsing this view - not that anybody should care - but it is one sort of argument that underpins claim rape is a male phenomenon.
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Tell you what, though, if you're very quick to argue that only dominant groups can be racist, you probably shouldn't be so quick to
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dismiss this sort of argument. Not if you want to remain intellectually consistent, that is.
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