confusion the rapist…

One of my many many beefs with feminism is that it does a poor job of bringing bread to the masses. That is to say, no, the views of well-off white and Jewish women do not in fact represent the views of the rest of us women. In fact, some of those views outright disturb us. The situation regarding the ‘all mens are potential rapisisists’ meme being a prime case in point. There are a lot of directions I want to go here, because the issue is more complex than an overly generous definition of rape, but I will keep it narrow-ish for now.

First thing out of the way: Many many many many white and white-identifying feminists are highly neurotic. They see shadows of rape and attack when there is only the sunlight dappling tree branches near the sidewalk. When it comes to rape, they are strongly inclined to insist that their highly strung sensibilities should be society’s default view of rape. But when one is neurotic and narcissistic, all kinds of casual behaviors turn into dangerous patterns and possible attacks. I suspect the heart of the problem is that the neurotic tendencies are exacerbated by the consequences of feminism. When you denigrate what honorable masculine expressions there are in this culture, one is left with the vice. Between the pressure to have sex– and not just sex, but FREAKY KINKY sex– to ‘prove’ how ‘liberated’ one is from icky old constraints and morality and the concurrent entitlement/instant-indulgement consumer culture that’s erupted in the last half century, it would be quite amazing if a whitegirl didn’t start seeing shadows round every corner. When there’s no social morality (or what’s there is wildly corrupted), neurotic impulses are all one has to work from.

The downside of course is that they are, after all, neurotic impulses. You have an idea that ‘bad’ behaviors by males ’somehow’ lead to rape (this is of course never made clear– neurosis doesn’t need to be explained, only indulged, you see), and thus you start campaigning for the definition of rape to be as broad as possible. But you know, guilt is no good. It is a different kind of trap and often just breeds the very resentment feminists claim to want to be rid of. When anything starts looking like it could maybe theoretically be a ‘form’ of rape, you have an extraordinarily antagonistic male-female situation in the offing.

To tie this glorious ramblage back to titty bars as an example, by implicitly judging behavior your neurosis declares unappealing ‘rape-like’, ordinary men who don’t desire unwilling flesh are tagged as ‘potential rapists’. Which is just…crazy. Heh.

This is quite the incoherence, but I think it is a fair starting point to return to another day.