Why do some people say that staring (ogling) is the same as rape?

I've found living in London that White, Western men aren't guilty of shameless staring at all. However it is common in my neck of the woods- from ethnic men coming from presumably Muslim majority countries. Arabs, Turks; that kind of thing. Believe me, although it's far from rape, it does feel very predatory and unnerving.

"Why do some people say that staring (ogling) is the same as rape?"

Those "some people"you are speaking of are feminists. I would like to say that it's some kind of joke, but it's not. And the sad thing is that this is EXACTLY what feminists have been doing over the years. Redefining the word "rape" in order to garner high enough numbers in their own surveys to be able to come out an claim a "rape culture" in the western world.

--the word "rape culture" stolen from the actual situation in men's prisons btw--

Even without sarcasm, feminists have claimed "stare rape", "fart rape" and "mini-rape". Sadly, too many feminists will demean the true victims of rape only to attempt a one time response from society by reclassifying ridiculous things as rape. It really is a one-time thing because most people are not that stupid. The effect of the word just loses it's emotional connection, and people no longer feel that "rape" is the serious crime it once was.

After all ...... "stare rape" ?

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Well this is the expansion of definition trick. Of course it is in no way the same but to a feminist it is. By ogling you are looking at her sexiness and we all know females do not want to appear sexy to men. To look at a female's sexiness is to turn her into an object rather than a human which is the first step in a rapist's repertoire. So the ogler is just as likely to rape the oglee as any other female and any other male. So you might as well cut out the middle man (i.e. the rape) and call it for what it is - rape. It's all right. It's not your fault. You just haven't had your consciousness raised to the level of female holistic thinking.

because feminists are a genocidal hate group exactly like the woman's kkk, who basically went around calling and profiling black men as rapists, violent, abusive, etc.. in the old south wkkk women would make false accusations of rape, or just claim that she was being ogled, in a way that made her feel uncomfortable or 'unsafe' .. this was called 'eyeballing' a white woman, and the kkk beat and murdered hundreds of black men on these grounds. while it was never on the books as a crime, the courts were so corrupt and biased that no white man would be prosecuted for lynching a black man that allegedly 'eyeballed' a white woman.

after women got the vote, they abandoned the kkk, which soon disolved, and the same propaganda and profiling was turned against white men, simply by dropping 'black' from the jargon.

feminists still use the same wKKK buzz words such as 'i don't feel safe' to signal to other femiNAZIs when a man is a target of thier genocidal profiling and hate speech..

Poor feminists. How will we ever protect them from "eye rape"?

Maybe we should offer them free counseling ...

...on HOW TO GROW UP so that they don't get so upset when people "make faces" at them?

"OMG! I just got 'ogled'! I feel like such an object!" ((faints))

Poor feminists are such delicate flowers. No wonder they get paid about half of what a man does; they seem to fold under the slightest amount of perceived pressure!

Because it gives them the opportunity to launch an attack against the opposite sex for doing what they normally do.

By exercising such extreme sensitivity to what should be properly deemed a compliment (we revert here to one of my previous answers), they instantly adopt the high moral ground, place the other person in the wrong, and grant to themselves the 'right' to attack. This, in turn, gives them the opportunity to extend their own area of control.

It is a sign of weakness, rather than strength.

It has been brought about by feminist mythology that everything men do is rape of women -I'd say forget it, except that the same thinking gets your door kicked in by armed cops bent on home invasion and night and fog.

"Why do some people say that staring (ogling) is the same as rape?" -- That's probably because they have a false impression of the idea of "rape". I fail to see how fantasizing about a woman that I met on the train 7 years ago would tantamount to "rape".

'Self-Victimization Disorder'.

One of the many forms of paranoia sweeping across the globe due to the overpowering deluge of distorted information available to an overpopulated modern world.

‘Monsters in the shadows’.

My ongoing research into feminism keeps returning to similar points, that females & feminism is full of psychological problems. That mainly females become feminists due to some emotional upheaval or emotional change in their life (usually concerning a male).

Ogling is not the same as staring you cannot be unaware you are ogling someone, you can be unaware you are starting at them but ogling implies it is on purpose, crudely done and unsubtly without respect for the person. Staring is one thing ogling is another.

Ogling is degrading, intrusive and can easily make someone feel uncomfortable and violated because they are objectified. In that way they are comparable but i think you have a point, it is trivialising it abit as rape as you say is premeditated usually and does have a lot more lasting damage. Rape is more violent scaring to me so they cannot be the same but i can see how they are intertwined.

I disagree, I am sure, given the choice to any woman, and they had to select one, ogling would be preferred over rape....