"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
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Replying to @chaosprime
...you'd really be surprised. Some kinds of rape are about sex and power. Other kinds are really just about power and humiliation.
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Replying to @adrienneleigh @chaosprime
A whole lot of prison rape, for instance, is about dominance/humiliation. Same with rape as a tool of war, especially the rape of men by other men.
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Replying to @adrienneleigh
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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Replying to @chaosprime
Um. Have you studied any sociology on this? Because i think your extremely confident statement about "outliers" is unwarranted.
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Replying to @adrienneleigh
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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Replying to @chaosprime
Prison rape of women by women is also a thing, for the record, and it's ALSO largely about dominance.
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Replying to @adrienneleigh @chaosprime
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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Replying to @politiquestions @adrienneleigh
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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Replying to @chaosprime @adrienneleigh
Arousal probably shouldnt be really such a pivotal fact in the whole "courts and judging" part, I suppose
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