Everything2
Near Matches
Ignore Exact
Full Text
Everything2

All sex is rape

(idea) by consumagenerica (2 y) (print)   ?   1 C! I like it! Wed Aug 09 2000 at 6:42:20

(This is more Nodeshell Liberation Front than Nodeshell Rescue Team, I think...)

No, it's not. Sex, even bad sex is not rape, no matter how much you regret it; and more to the point, rape is not sex. It's strange how many people still don't get this, so I'll say it again: rape is not sex. It's not about sex. It's about assault. End of story.


General Wesc, me darlin', I think I have probably read a good deal more radical feminist literature than you have. I have never seen anybody make this statement except to set it up as a straw man -- I refer you to your own excellent writeup on the subject.

(idea) by General Wesc (1.8 d) (print)   ?   I like it! Thu Nov 02 2000 at 21:50:40

A made-up quote falsely attributed to Catherine MacKinnon. While this isn't a real quote, there is an argument akin to it.

According to some, our society has been built up by men in a way that all women feel worthless and the only way to have any value is to serve the mighty male by having sex with him. Since the oppressive way which men have created out society forces women to have sex in order to have any worth, all sex is rape.

I'm not sure if this argument is actually used in such a form by any radical feminists or just their critics. Also see the related node "all men are rapists".

Oh, and rape is sex, for whatever purpose. Sex is a biological function. :-)


printable version
chaos

All men are rapists Apparently I am a potential rapist How to screw with people's heads at the mall straw man
I am a rape survivor To people who drag little kids to see "Fantasia" The mutual problem of Christians and feminists all sex is not rape
Andrea Dworkin Why men like women's breasts A day without rape Catharine MacKinnon
Comfort women Understanding the female orgasm Virginity, my loss of radical feminism
potential rapist rape fantasy Date rape intercourse
hentai oral copulation billboard liberation front Assault
No more writeups are being accepted for this node. Please submit proposed additions to an editor for review because this node is an XP death trap for the unwary. If you feel you have something to add to this node, post it on your Scratch Pad and contact an editor.
  Epicenter
Login
Password

password reminder
register

Everything2 Help

Cool Staff Picks
Look at this mess the Death Borg made!
A.I.
How can a good Buddhist work in advertising?
C.S. Lewis
designated hitter
How to make a decent cup of tea
Danse Macabre
Stupid Word Tricks
Hiraeth
"A Story", by Everythingians
E2 is unfriendly to New Order
Buy Nothing Day
David Sedaris
Jimmy Carter
New Writeups
FrankThomas
How and why do we (humans) have culture?(essay)
lee_cad
Isaac(person)
kalen
downvota(poetry)
Andrew Aguecheek
Wstfgl(thing)
ncc05
overheard at IHOP(event)
calgon
Bottomless(poetry)
lismaraxt
Ice Theory of The Origin of Life(idea)
allthetime
Apple Cinnamon Suicide(idea)
Lucy-S
shovelglove(idea)
Adaptive Child
Mexican secret sauce(recipe)
Adaptive Child
nacho libre(recipe)
TheLady
Iron Man(review)
Scaevola
Risk in the Roman law of sale(idea)
semicolon
overheard at IHOP(event)
choirotey
Violent pickup lines(idea)
E2 is a by-product of the existence of The Everything Development Company