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NovaKart
Joined: 18 Nov 2009
Location: Iraq
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 Posted: Mon Feb 01, 2010 4:17 am Post subject: |
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I'm usually someone who says the misogynist label is thrown around too freely but it is sexist to say that women enjoy the freedom to charge an innocent man with rape. Only a sociopathic person would do so. Most women even if they hated someone would never do that.
I think the issue is that men and women look at this each from their own perspectives. Maybe being a homo I can look at this more impartially since I'm not going to have sex with a woman who would later accuse me of rape, although I could be accused by someone I had never had sex with in the first place which I think does make me side with the men on this issue a little more. I suppose I could also be accused by a man but then I could also do the accusing so it puts us on more of an equal footing. |
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Trevor
Joined: 16 Nov 2005
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| Posted: Mon Feb 01, 2010 5:30 am Post subject: |
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Your perspective is appreciated, Novakart. My exact wording is important, here. I did not say "women enjoy the freedom to charge an innocent man with rape." I agree that would be a sexist statement. There is a great deal of difference in meaning. My exact words were:
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My theory is this: rape is such a horrible, horrible crime that women badly want an equivalent power to do something equally as ugly. That power is what we see here -- to falsely accuse a man of a sex crime with near total impunity. Now, that's power. Unprecedented social power. Men may have the hideous power of rape, but women have been now given the hideous artificial power of false accusations -- scott free of any possible punishment. It is my belief that many women take a deep psychological comfort in the knowledge that they can easily ruin a person if they choose.
This is not to say that most women would actually use that power (and even our bewitching cigarettte vixens owned up) but try suggesting to a women that we should take away that power of impunity and most will go bananas. Now that they have that power over men, they will be damned if they let go of it, easily. (Would you?) I think it is just beginning to dawn on people what significance it has to our society. Women have been denying, denying, denying that it is anything more than a trifling issue, and obviously it needs to be addressed. |
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I'm usually someone who says the misogynist label is thrown around too freely but it is sexist to say that women enjoy the freedom to charge an innocent man with rape. Only a sociopathic person would do so. Most women even if they hated someone would never do that.
I think the issue is that men and women look at this each from their own perspectives. Maybe being a homo I can look at this more impartially since I'm not going to have sex with a woman who would later accuse me of rape, although I could be accused by someone I had never had sex with in the first place which I think does make me side with the men on this issue a little more. I suppose I could also be accused by a man but then I could also do the accusing so it puts us on more of an equal footing. |
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