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This is precisely what radical feminists have been demanding for eons - an end to male supremacy and thereby an end to innumerable men's belief that they have the innate right of sexual access to any woman or girl 24/7. Catharine A. MacKinnon succinctly stated the truth when she said that we cannot distinguish between normal male heterosexual expression and rape because what passes for normal male sexuality is in fact rape - aka male domination and male control over women's and girls' sexualities and their bodies.Therefore rape is about the eroticisation of male sexual entitlement which is why it is so hard for most men and many women to be able to tell the difference. We need to eliminate the widespread belief that men are entitled to have sexual access to women. Whilst women - well all we can do is either to say yes or no and hope that the individual male will decide not to rape us, but if chooses to ignore our demands, he knows male supremacist society will support him and excuse his crime against women. Why? Because he was enacting normal heterosexual male entitlement to women and hence no rape occurred.Female sexual autonomy will not eliminate all rape but it will certainly challenge men's belief they are never accountable when they rape a woman or girl.That explains why malestream commonly trivialises male sexual violence against women by either eroticising it or else twisting the reality of men's sexual violence against women into yet another piece of sensationalist misogynistic reporting.The daily 'little rapes' men and boys commit against women and girls are not 'real rapes' they are supposedly just normal male expression of their sexuality and sex right to women and girls.
This is precisely what radical feminists have been demanding for eons - an end to male supremacy and thereby an end to innumerable men's belief that they have the innate right of sexual access to any woman or girl 24/7. Catharine A. MacKinnon succinctly stated the truth when she said that we cannot distinguish between normal male heterosexual expression and rape because what passes for normal male sexuality is in fact rape - aka male domination and male control over women's and girls' sexualities and their bodies.
ReplyDeleteTherefore rape is about the eroticisation of male sexual entitlement which is why it is so hard for most men and many women to be able to tell the difference.
We need to eliminate the widespread belief that men are entitled to have sexual access to women. Whilst women - well all we can do is either to say yes or no and hope that the individual male will decide not to rape us, but if chooses to ignore our demands, he knows male supremacist society will support him and excuse his crime against women. Why? Because he was enacting normal heterosexual male entitlement to women and hence no rape occurred.
Female sexual autonomy will not eliminate all rape but it will certainly challenge men's belief they are never accountable when they rape a woman or girl.
That explains why malestream commonly trivialises male sexual violence against women by either eroticising it or else twisting the reality of men's sexual violence against women into yet another piece of sensationalist misogynistic reporting.
The daily 'little rapes' men and boys commit against women and girls are not 'real rapes' they are supposedly just normal male expression of their sexuality and sex right to women and girls.