Feminist Explanations: Male Power, Hostility, and Sexual Coercion

[ish mailian]

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On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 4:11 PM, ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com> wrote:

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> https://womensspace.wordpress.com/2007/11/21/afghan-warlords-and-male-sexual-slavery-boys-as-girls/
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> On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 3:47 PM, ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> The text doesn't include boys because the topic is not boys but girls and
>> women.
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>> On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 10:56 AM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> '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
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>>> On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 6:51 AM, ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
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>>>> 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:
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>>>>> 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:
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>>>>>> 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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>>>>>>>
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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.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> https://www.ncjrs.gov/index.html
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>>>>>>>
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