Feminism and the threat of totalitarianism

in #rape7 years ago (edited)

Consent is like other important notions such as right/wrong and good/bad which has been notoriously hard to define over the 2500 years of the best philosophical minds. To be clear forced sex is rape, and women should expect to not hear sexually harassing cat calls in the street or asked to have sex by anyone who can affect their employment. But you can't go to a frat party full of drunken naive men and assert that you have no personal responsibility.

Yet we are forced to think that an allergy pill, a single drink, or a whole series of naive decisions can absolve women of responsibility for their sexual lives and is clearly rape. Now obviously someone passed out can't give #sexualconsent, but that makes the romantic morning after sexual initiation or sex after one drink is equally criminal as well. These arguments about unforced sexual assaults without #consent can only appeal to simpletons of the #Metoo meme. Oddly these women that claim to lack responsibility to act prudently are fine with seeing drunk men as absolutely responsible. You can't have it both ways, ladies... Prudent people will acknowledge that their responsibility did not end with a drunken stupor at a college party where you think anything inappropriate for you is common. Going out to "party with and bunch of young and drunk naive men" is not admitting your acting imprudently or acknowledging your agency. This is such an immature perspective.. Our society may not realize it, but we are not rocks or dust mites... We are capable of thinking ethically and acting on that understanding. Every being capable of this, is to be considered a moral being with moral responsibility.

We may have natural urges, but it will be our responsibility to act morally. We don't escape agency and responsibility by thinking we are just like a dust mite.

Now Men just need to act just as prudently to avoid 99% of women who do not acknowledge their responsibility to be prudent or those women who think they lack agency, because in our culture women are clearly privileged & empowered to think men who desire them sexuality should have a PHD in Psychology, Sociology, Biology, Legal President and Medical diagnosis. Worst of all, that woman can simply make any claim and ruin the lives of men!

Sorry ladies the world does not have safety pads over every dangerous corner and free speech is not achieved by criminalizing men's voice, you have to act prudently, and be willing to be offended if you want to live in a free society.