Feminist Explanations: Male Power, Hostility, and Sexual Coercion

[Mark Thibodeau]

Goodbye, John Bove.

J

On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 7:39 PM, john bove <malignd at gmx.com> wrote:

> No.  Back up your claims.  Is that a real number?  Facts matter, asshole.
>
> *Sent:* Friday, January 22, 2016 at 5:59 PM
> *From:* "John Bailey" <sundayjb at gmail.com>
> *To:* "john bove" <malignd at gmx.com>
> *Cc:* "pynchon -l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> *Subject:* Re: Feminist Explanations: Male Power, Hostility, and Sexual
> Coercion
> 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
>
> - Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?listpynchon-l
>
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