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Anonymous asked in Social ScienceGender Studies · 2 weeks ago

Does the fact that old/ugly/modestly dressed women get raped prove that all rapes are exclusively about power and not sexual attraction?

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  • liz
    Lv 7
    2 weeks ago
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    No, not all. Crimes can have a number of different motivations. 

  • Anonymous
    2 weeks ago

    Men don't care what women they rape look like, as long as they have vaginas. I think that's pretty uncontroversial. Rapists are usually opportunists. They'll take what//who they can get.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    2 weeks ago

    ALL??? Unfortunately there is this "one size fits all" mentality that is preventing us from looking at the multiplicity of motives.  This in turn undermines our ability to improve the situation.  There are many potential motives for rapes.  Perhaps every case is individual.

  • Foofa
    Lv 7
    2 weeks ago

    No, but the numerous studies on sexual power dynamics and the criminal mind do. 

  • Anonymous
    2 weeks ago

    No it doesn’t prove that. Some men rape for other reasons

  • ?
    Lv 7
    2 weeks ago

    @RoVale: So you realize that pedophiles exist and that women and gay men commit rapes, right? lol

    And more than 90% of the time a rapist does in fact rape within their sexual orientation. 

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    Anyway, the theory that rape is only about power has been a debunked feminist theory for about 46 years now. Feminists have no intention of letting it go even if it was debunked a long time ago. 

  • RoVale
    Lv 7
    2 weeks ago

    Despite what many people think, rape is not about sexual attraction. It is about asserting dominance over a smaller and weaker victim. For those who continue to believe that rape is about sexual attraction, then why do babies, children, old people, disabled people, and men get raped?

    Edit: Bill, I know that a sex act is committed during a rape but that's not the reason for rape. It is about asserting power and dominance over a smaller and weaker victim by degrading and humiliating that person.

  • 2 weeks ago

    "Does the fact that old/ugly/modestly dressed women get raped prove that all rapes are exclusively about power and not sexual attraction?"

    No it doesn't do that at all.  Rape is primarily a crime of opportunity.  Does the fact that any woman who remains at home and gives no opportunity to a criminal rapist disprove the idea that rape is about power?  Yup!  It does.

    Did that old/ugly/modest woman that got raped have a rapist knock on her door specifically because he choose her due to some power issue?  Or did that same women provide some type of opportunity for a crime to be committed against her?  The answer is obvious.

    The whole notion that rape is only about power is a feminist construct that is used to weaponize rape against all men as a group rather than hold individual, criminal men accountable for their actions.  There is simply no good reason for anyone to go along with that divisive idea unless they agree with feminists that men are all just rapists, awaiting the opportunity to rape.  

    The Myth that Rape is About Power

    https://difficultrun.nathanielgivens.com/2014/09/0...

    Men can be women's best allies.  Or they can be alienated with divisive "feminist theories" like this one. This reality has been completely lost with feminists over the years.

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