Feminist Explanations: Male Power, Hostility, and Sexual Coercion

[ish mailian]

The text doesn't include boys because the topic is not boys but girls and
women.

On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 10:56 AM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:

> '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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