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- From: dcrosgr@uoft02.utoledo.edu
- Newsgroups: talk.rape
- Subject: The Argument Clinic on Talk.Rape
- Message-ID: <1992Jul31.134302.9088@uoft02.utoledo.edu>
- Date: 31 Jul 92 13:43:01 EST
- References: <SYNTH.92Jul29115142@deepthought.unm.edu> <t5nmkv=@lynx.unm.edu> <SYNTH.92Jul31092032@deepthought.unm.edu>
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- In article <SYNTH.92Jul31092032@deepthought.unm.edu>, synth@deepthought.unm.edu (Synth F. Oberheim) writes:
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- >
- > dc> No, unless rape means anything Synth defines as rape, it does not
- > dc> mean force. It means unwanted/unconsnted to sex.
- >
- > "Unwanted and unconsented" automatically implies force or dominance of
- > some kind. But you *cannot* say that force and dominance automatically
- > means rape if you have variables like S/M and bondage.
-
- You do not need those variables even. How many people here have been in a
- relationship where either in or out of the bedroom, one partner was not a
- little more dominant or forceful. Humans automatically, like any other tribe
- animal, establish a pecking order for situations, even if there are only two.
- Men traditionally more assertive in seeking out sex, although, please God!,
- this is changing to where women are assuming some of the sexual pursuer role.
-
- >
- >> Laz> If these ... are really typical of the fantasies of the males you
- >> Laz> were socialized with, then the fact that you still associated with
- >> Laz> them says almost as much about you as it does about them.
- >>
- >> "Still associated with them"? From what hat did you pull *this* rabbit
- >> out of ...?
- >
- > dc> 3. If you still associate with them, you are wilfully associating
- > dc> with men who (you have claimed) want to rape women.
- >
- > Yes? And where did I ever say or even imply that I still associate
- > with them?
-
- So you no longer associte with men who have expressed fantasies like to one you
- stated earlier this week? Men who are willing to fantaszie about sex while
- oblivious to their parners?
-
- >
- >>> I agree that simply hearing of someone expressing a desire to have sex
- >>> with someone, without explicitly describing whether or not that person
- >>> consents, cannot be construed to be a rape fantasy.
- >>
- >> Laz> From where I sit, it obviously looks like you're construing
- >> Laz> exactly that.
- >>
- >> You mean "looked", don't you, since I had now clarified that? Or does
- >> that not matter to you?
- >
- > dc> Then instead of defending you prior post, admit that you have no
- > dc> evidence to equate "I'd love to shove my dick in her mouth" with
- > dc> "I'd love to rape her."
- >
- > Since I wasn't contradicting myself, but rather clarifying what was
- > meant, I have nothing to "admit". Possibly you might look up
- > "clarified" in Webster's ...
-
- If you do not believe, nor have tried to imply, that a large number of men have
- rape fantasies, as evidenced by your personal example of all the men who would
- state publicly that they would like to shove their members in an attractive
- female, what was the point of your original post on this thread?
-
- The problem we are facing is that you stated something that which follows a
- pattern similar to the following:
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- Synth: X proves Y
- Us: No, X does not prove Y.
- S: Yes X proves Y
- U: X only proves Y if Z is also present.
- S: Let me clarify, Y can not be proven without Z, therfore X is irrelevant.
- U: That's what we said.
- S: No, that is what I said.
-
- I feel like Syth is really John Cleese in disguise!
-
- DC
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- > ===============================================================================
- > :: :: :: :: :: Synth F. synth@deepthought.unm.edu U S E N E T
- > :: :: :: :: :: :: :: Oberheim synth@yenta.alb.nm.us in color!
- > ===============================================================================
- > "Contestant number two?"
- > "I can kill Midi using only 30 calories, Bob!"
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