The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #127384   Message #2842318
Posted By: Emma B
17-Feb-10 - 04:52 PM
Thread Name: BS: 'Some rape victims should take blame'- ??
Subject: RE: BS: "Some rape victims should take blame"- ??
"Maybe you'd like to think about what might happen to a man who was maliciously singled out by a woman who deliberately gave him the wrong signals. A woman who went home with him, continuing with those signals, who got into bed with him, signalling away, who let love-making (or sex for the emotionless amongst you) start, who kept at it, relaxing as he relaxed, who brought this man to the point of almost no return....and then, just as he was about to...............

....she changes her mind.

Quite deliberately."

This is NOT a description of acquaitance or 'date' rape Lizzie; it seems to be some weird fantasy scenario of someone who really holds nothing but contempt for women.

Yhe more usual situation is a couple who having been drinking together there is a failure to read messages - probably from both sides.

however - do NOT demean men here - they are not a slavering slave to some atavistic hegemonic masculine lust and do NOT have to continue against someone's expressed wishes

As I quoted somewhere previously

It is offensive to both men and women to burden women with responsibility for male behavior and infantilizes men as creatures unable to exercise self-control.

The myth of uncontrollable male sex drive manages to be both misogynistic and misandrist at the same time