Feminist Explanations: Male Power, Hostility, and Sexual Coercion

[rich]

'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.'

not sure why the definition of sexual terrorism doesnt include the rape of
boys--see Afghanistan, e.g.

rich

On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 6:51 AM, ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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