tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10557263.post113267501938098644..comments2024-01-26T10:20:37.836+00:00Comments on Diary of a Goldfish: Heavy Rant for a Tuesday AfternoonThe Goldfishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15213378454070776331noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10557263.post-1132759445768374612005-11-23T15:24:00.000+00:002005-11-23T15:24:00.000+00:00I wonder if it is also, in some way, a perversion ...I wonder if it is also, in some way, a perversion of another social instinct.<BR/><BR/>Many mammals, and I'm thinking especially primates, use sexual submission display to defuse a power clash. Typically the junior party "offers" him/herself to the senior, who then may make a token gesture (eg climbing on) or may just turn away, satisfied that their relative hierarchical positions have been re-established.<BR/><BR/>Man, of course, has evolved to be able to ignore these anti-aggression signals but I wonder if the use of <I>rape</I> in particular is a reminder of their existence.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10557263.post-1132752745625475482005-11-23T13:32:00.000+00:002005-11-23T13:32:00.000+00:00Well that's what I have always thought. Most rape ...Well that's what I have always thought. Most rape is actually perpetrated by men towards wives, girlfriends and daughters in situations where there are other sorts of domestic abuse going on. And male rape is far from exclusive to gay men who might have a sexual incentive; happens in prisons, within the military and indeed as a war crime, some forces preferring to rape menfolk in order to humiliate a defeated people.<BR/><BR/>The only people who insist it is to do with sex are those radical feminists who see male sexuality as somehow inherrantly dangerous to women - Andrea Dworkin, twice a rape victim, argued this very strongly. <BR/><BR/>Also, there are have been arguments among evolutionary psychologists that rape is some sort of adaptive reproductive strategy, but this doesn't make much sense on any level. Also, the same people who argue this tend to argue for a very old-fashioned, submissive role as natural for women. Basically they insult us all.The Goldfishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15213378454070776331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10557263.post-1132688420391655342005-11-22T19:40:00.000+00:002005-11-22T19:40:00.000+00:00Rape, I was taught, is not about sex. It is about...Rape, I was taught, is not about sex. It is about power. About imposing one's will. About humiliation, and revenge (never mind that the victim is an innocent, complete stranger to the assailant).<BR/><BR/>You hear of women in their seventies and eighties being raped; of babies under a year being raped. What can that possibly have to do with sex, or testosterone?<BR/><BR/>Anybody can be raped, male or female. The difference is, that no-one kids themselves that the rape of male by male is something to do with an over-sexed younker losing control.<BR/><BR/>In bygone days, in factories, it was often the custom for young male apprentices on their first shift to be sexually assaulted by female operatives. Again, power and the revenge of the disempowered.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com