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=== "Rape is about power" === | === "Rape is about power" === | ||
Possible as part of their tic-like repetition of the [["its the patriarchy"]] trope, it is also a common feminist assertion that rape is about asserting power and dominance not sex, echoing Oscar Wilde ("everything is about sex; but sex is about power"), however evidence for this assertion is lacking. | |||
One simple counterargument against this assertion is the fact that most rape victims are young, fertile women.<ref>https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/85-002-x/2017001/article/54866-eng.htm</ref><ref>https://www.rainn.org/statistics/victims-sexual-violence</ref> If rape was about asserting male power over women, in order to 'put them in their place', one would expect that the majority of rape victims would be older, wealthier and higher status women. | One simple counterargument against this assertion is the fact that most rape victims are young, fertile women.<ref>https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/85-002-x/2017001/article/54866-eng.htm</ref><ref>https://www.rainn.org/statistics/victims-sexual-violence</ref> If rape was about asserting male power over women, in order to 'put them in their place', one would expect that the majority of rape victims would be older, wealthier and higher status women. | ||