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- From: falcao@felix.metaphor.COM (Ronnie Falcao)
- Subject: Negotiated behavior as weapon?
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- Date: 23 Dec 92 18:14:35 GMT
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- Robert Hartman (uunet!infmx!hartman@ncar.UCAR.EDU) writes:
- > [Deleted text.]
- >Although one cannot compare this with the trauma of rape, it is also
- >true that when women use the conditional rationing of sexual favors as
- >a means to control the behavior of men--as our "glorious" culture
- >prescribes--female sexuality is also being used as a weapon. To me,
- >this is one of the legitimate grievances men do have. But please note
- >clearly that I am talking about _behavior_ sanctioned by _conventional_
- >_women's_culture,_ not _women._
-
- Weapons are used to injure people or threaten them with injury
- so as to force them to do things involuntarily.
-
- Controlling how and when someone expresses their own sexuality
- does not seem like using a weapon to me. As far as I can tell,
- you're talking about a negotiated relationship. Would you also
- call the male side of the negotiation (conditional rationing of
- certain behaviors to control the sexual behavior of women)
- using a weapon?
-
- Although I can understand that normally socialized males
- may be frustrated that normally socialized females aren't as
- sexually available as they'd like them to be, is this so
- very different from the frustration that normally socialized
- females feel about the emotional unavailability of normally
- socialized males?
-
- Although you claim not to be comparing rape with "normal"
- behavior, I find the quoted paragraph very disturbing.
- After all, if it's true that a woman is using a weapon in
- declining to participate in sex, and a man is legitimately
- grieved by this, then maybe it's fair play for him to use
- his weapon and rape her.
-
- I hope I've misunderstood what you meant.
-
- - Ronnie
-
- falcao@metaphor.com
-
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