Feminist Explanations: Male Power, Hostility, and Sexual Coercion

[ish mailian]

https://womensspace.wordpress.com/2007/11/21/afghan-warlords-and-male-sexual-slavery-boys-as-girls/

On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 3:47 PM, ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
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