ITEM Wisconsin. 1990. Mark Peterson is found guilty of sexually assaulting a woman who. doctors say. has forty-six personalities.24 She claimed that one of her personalities, a girl the age of 6. reformed her afterward that she had been having sex. She then accused Mark Peterson of havng sexually assaulted her. Six of the woman’s […]
Рубрика: In The Myth of Male Power
The politics of making date rape an epidemic and making only men responsible
Almost half of all women are raped or victims of attempted rape at least once in their lives.". . . Under conditions of male dominance, if sex is normally something men do to women, viewing “yes" as a sign of consent is misguided.12 Catharine MacKinnon, NBC’s only choice to analyze the entire Clarence Thomas hearings […]
What’s the difference between stranger rape, acquaintance rape, and date rape?
We often hear, "Rape is rape, right*" No. A stranger forcing himself on a woman at knife point is different from a man and woman having sex while drunk and having regrets in the morning UThat is different? When a woman agrees to a date, she does not make a choice to be sexual, but […]
Date fraud and date lying
If a man ignoring a woman’s verbal "no" is committing date rape, then a woman who says "no" with her verbal language but "yes” with her body language is committing date fraud. And a woman who continues to be sexual even after she says "no" is committing date lying. Do women still do this? Two […]
Isn’t it the male role that needs changing because it is men who rape?
Prevailing perspective. The problem in dating is the male role because it is men who rape, not women. My perspective. The problem is both sexes’ roles: both sexes’ roles lead to both sexes’ problems — the problem for women of date rape, and problems for men such as date robbery, unequal date rejection, unequal date […]
I* date rape a crime or a misunderstanding?
Prevailingperspective. Date rape is a crime, not a misunderstanding. Another репресійe Anyone who works with both sexes knows it is possible for a man to feel he’s |ust made love and for a woman to feel she’s been raped It’s also possible for a woman to feel she’s made love in the evening when she’s […]
Is rape an outgrowth of male power?
Myth. Rape is a manifestation of male political and economic power. Fact Any given black man is three limes as likely to be reported a rapist as a white man.* Do blacks suddenly have more political and economic power? Maybe rape does not derive from power, but rather from powerlessness. More on that below. Is […]
The Politics of Rape
АН тел are raptrn and chat’s all they are. Monlyn french, author of The Women’s Room1 Men who are unjustly accused of rape can sometimes gain from the experience. Vossor College Assistant Dean of Students2 Imagine your son dating a woman from Vassar who feels that a man could gain from being falsely accused of […]
Conclusion
Sexual harassment is a perfect metaphor for some of the most important challenges of the twenty-first century: the challenge to our genetic heritage of protecting women; the challenge to the stereotype of innocent woman/ guilty man; the challenge to keep our workplace flexible and fluid rather than petrified and paralyzed; the challenge to respond to […]
Some solutions?
If a woman feels sexually harassed, encourage her to tell the man directly. How do I know this will work’ Well, when two feminists compiled the sexual harassment stories of 100 women, every single man who was told by a woman directly that she felt his behavior was harassing her stopped immediately.33 All of the […]