Feminist Explanations: Male Power, Hostility, and Sexual Coercion

[ish mailian]

The Left-Right binary ignores the facts about sexual terrorism and how it
is promoted by religions, and specifically, how the combination of
demographics, economics, that is, young me without young women, emigrating
to economies that are weak, and specifically weak in their ability to
employee young and under-educated young men, make women more vulnerable to
assault.

On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 5:40 AM, ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com> wrote:

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> It discusses rape as a power-motivated crime, male dominance and sexual
> coercion, sexual coercion as a learned social control of women, pornography
> as the cultural eroticization of sexual coercion, and sexual coercion as
> sexual terrorism. The feminist analysis defines sexual coercion as
> power-motivated and upholding a system of male dominance. The nature of
> sexual coercion as socially-constructed, learned behavior is linked to
> socialization influences that affect males, particularly pornography. A
> definition of the feminist approach to sexual coercion has three
> components: acknowledgment of the gender differential in power;
> acknowledgment of how these disparities in power affect all social
> interactions between women and men as well as individual behavior and
> psychological issues; and acknowledgment of the principle of hegemonic
> control. A discussion of sexual coercion as sexual terrorism concludes the
> chapter. Sexual terrorism is defined as a system by which males frighten,
> thereby controlling and dominating, females. Sexual terrorism has five
> components: ideology, propaganda, indiscriminate and amoral violence,
> voluntary compliance, and society's perception of the terrorist and the
> terrorized.
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> https://www.ncjrs.gov/index.html
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