Feminist Explanations: Male Power, Hostility, and Sexual Coercion

[ish mailian]

Yes, we should include the winners and losers: The Muslim refugees and the
secular males who rape girls in the developing world, in nations where the
protection afforded females "back home" in the developed nation is not a
restraint on their lust and where their relative wealth exacerbates the
power of patriarchy, worsens the vulnerability of females, and where, as
tourists for sex, the power relations, as described in the feminist text
make sexual terrorism not only more likely but less likely to be reported.

Yes, their are comparisons that are nearly universal and ubiquitous, and
their are singular elements that are better understood in contrasts.

Kai has outlined some of these, though, as others have noted, the sources
and the passion of his argument is somewhat counterproductive. Germany is
shouldering a huge responsibility and it needs to be more conscious of its
responsibility to the vulnerable populations, including women and girls,
irrespective of their religion, status of emigration, and the rest.

Not an easy weight to carry and Kai's concerns, I believe, are justified,
if not so pleasantly stated.



On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 6:11 AM, John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:

> The Left-Right binary also fails when it comes to the f--king terrifying
> scale of sexual slavery today, on every continent, perpetuated by and on
> every race and ethnicity and gender, but some more than others. Maybe
> Antarctica is exempt but I wouldn't be bloody surprised. There are suburbs
> in which the rape of hundreds of women occurs on a nightly basis. These
> include South-East Asian suburbs frequented by hordes of secular white men.
> The newspapers don't report it, so much. All of this has nothing to do with
> Koln, but I firmly believe the sexual terrorism Ish is linking to uses
> religion, commerce, psychology, art, whatever, merely as an excuse.
>
> On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 9:45 PM, ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> https://www.ncjrs.gov/index.html
>>>
>>>
>>
>
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