"rape isn't about sex, it's about power" is a creaking basic-ass take that was a specific counteragent to even more basic-ass rape apologism, "my sexual desire was uncontrollable" it's just straight-up incorrect, it's about sex *and* power or they'd just fucking punch someone
yeah, there's a level of at least agreed-upon-among-the-rapists desexualization there (obviously used as cover some proportion of the time). i'd call them outliers, but it'd be terribly hypocritical of me to disregard outliers
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Um. Have you studied any sociology on this? Because i think your extremely confident statement about "outliers" is unwarranted.
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enh, yeah, you're right, i'm aware that numerical prevalence of rape of men is enormous all out of proportion to cultural perception. hard to overcome the bias of years of conditioning by feminist discourse to identify rape as a thing done to women by men
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Prison rape of women by women is also a thing, for the record, and it's ALSO largely about dominance.
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Not for nothing but a lot of men responsible for a lot of "unsolved" crimes are less about looking for someone to fulfill a sexual desire and more about using a kind of target they can get away with treating like trash. Usually that's women, but that's not really heterosexuality
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yeah, that's fair. on the flip side, when one has heard a convicted serial rapist piously parrot "rape isn't about sex, it's about power" as part of his spiel for why he doesn't have deviant sexual arousal and shouldn't be legally considered a predator, it can shift perspective
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On the other hand, what does "legally considered a predator" even mean? Because if it's about whether people get put on lifetime registration lists, then i'm so utterly against those as tools that i don't care what the hell the law says.
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where i live it's about which publicity level of the lifetime registration lists you get put on and kiiiiinda soooorta about whether you get locked up for the rest of your life on no charges after your sentence is over
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i have the vague impression the terminology gets put to wildly variant usages in different states, i shudder to think what Florida's doing with it
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