Charlotte Shane feels the politicization of rape has contributed to it becoming a crime of such single-dimensional evil:
[N]uance is felt as a threat by activists who cling to their depiction of rape as the ultimate horror. They seem to think that if it’s not the superlatively worst human experience, it will become acceptable or even more prevalent.
This, she argues, is rooted in sexism:
[T]he notion that a man can ruin me with his penis strikes me as the most complete expression of vintage misogyny available. Common sense instructs us that it is far more "dangerous" to insist to young women that they will be broken by an unwanted sex act than it is to propose they might have a happy, healthy, and sexually pleasant future ahead of them in spite of a sexual assault.
Recent commentary on rapists confessing on Reddit here.
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