I wanted to also amplify this compulsion of some/many/all feminists to ever claim and expand the definition of rape so that all heterosexual women can become honorary victims. I believe it's Julie Bindel, notably, who is pushing to expand the definition of rape to include 'retroactive regret' which would trump any form of consent prior t…
I wanted to also amplify this compulsion of some/many/all feminists to ever claim and expand the definition of rape so that all heterosexual women can become honorary victims. I believe it's Julie Bindel, notably, who is pushing to expand the definition of rape to include 'retroactive regret' which would trump any form of consent prior to and during intercourse.
As for Dworkin, amazingly, she spent her entire life getting raped. Men simply could not control their base sexual urges in her presence. Before her death, she even recounted and published a particularly harrowing event in a Paris hotelroom here:
For all the times that Dworkin was raped, she preferred to compose essays about her trauma and need for recovery than to actually do anything to bring her rapists to stand trial. It's what gives cred amongst her followers and publishers. Rape is a powerfully moving literary theme. I am reminded that so many early Women's Studies departments were staffed with more English majors than sociologists, historians, or legal experts. As a result, literary analysis has always been a filter through which academic feminists have viewed and projected their ideas onto the physical world. It, therefore, comes as no surprise that Andrea Dworkin's last rape would not lead to anything so mundane as a criminal investigation in order to forestall any additional violence against women; her violation better serves a source material, instead, for a stageplay.
Absoulutely BRILLIANT! All brilliant points. Your essay is much better than Dworkin and Stoltenberg's theater, and serves a much bigger reality than a stage play.
I wanted to also amplify this compulsion of some/many/all feminists to ever claim and expand the definition of rape so that all heterosexual women can become honorary victims. I believe it's Julie Bindel, notably, who is pushing to expand the definition of rape to include 'retroactive regret' which would trump any form of consent prior to and during intercourse.
As for Dworkin, amazingly, she spent her entire life getting raped. Men simply could not control their base sexual urges in her presence. Before her death, she even recounted and published a particularly harrowing event in a Paris hotelroom here:
https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/feminism/2013/03/day-i-was-drugged-and-raped
and the rebuttal: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/doubting-dworkin-the-radical-writers-dubious-account-of-being-drugged-and-assaulted-does-no-good-for-rape-awareness/article768435/
For all the times that Dworkin was raped, she preferred to compose essays about her trauma and need for recovery than to actually do anything to bring her rapists to stand trial. It's what gives cred amongst her followers and publishers. Rape is a powerfully moving literary theme. I am reminded that so many early Women's Studies departments were staffed with more English majors than sociologists, historians, or legal experts. As a result, literary analysis has always been a filter through which academic feminists have viewed and projected their ideas onto the physical world. It, therefore, comes as no surprise that Andrea Dworkin's last rape would not lead to anything so mundane as a criminal investigation in order to forestall any additional violence against women; her violation better serves a source material, instead, for a stageplay.
https://johnstoltenberg.medium.com/andrea-dworkins-last-rape-5b8efd61fec2
Absoulutely BRILLIANT! All brilliant points. Your essay is much better than Dworkin and Stoltenberg's theater, and serves a much bigger reality than a stage play.