Feminist Explanations: Male Power, Hostility, and Sexual Coercion

[John Bailey]

Geez, if they can get you asking the wrong questions...

On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 7:53 AM, john bove <malignd at gmx.com> wrote:

> I don't disagree with your underlying point about sexual predation but --
>
> "There are suburbs in which the rape of hundreds of women occurs on a
> nightly basis."
>
> You're saying that there are numerous suburbs that each endure some 700
> rapes weekly?  that would be 36,400 rapes yearly in any one of a number of
> suburbs.  How big are these suburbs?
> *Sent:* Wednesday, January 13, 2016 at 6:11 AM
> *From:* "John Bailey" <sundayjb at gmail.com>
> *To:* "ish mailian" <ishmailian at gmail.com>
> *Cc:* "Pynchon List" <Pynchon-l at waste.org>
> *Subject:* Re: Feminist Explanations: Male Power, Hostility, and Sexual
> Coercion
> 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
>>>
>>>
>> - Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?listpynchon-l
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