Feminist Armchair Regime: Genital mutilation isn't funny: The following is cross-posted from the Damsel in de Tech blog. Click here to see the original. Every once in a while there's a new...
I wrote what's below as a comment to this blog post (a blog I enjoy reading) however of course the comment post was too long so I'm just going to post the comment as my own blog post to serve as what I hope will be interpreted as a thoughtful response to their piece on how male castration isn't funny, male castration is NOT funny, of course, but there needs to be more dialogue on the topic. In order to completely understand my comment, you also must read their blog post that elicited my comment. So merely for your thoughtful consideration dear reader:
I actually disagree. If we ever develop the type of justice system necessary to deduce without flaw or margin of error that a rapist raped or that a molester molested, I think there should be a real threat of becoming an eunuch with what you did 'scared' on your face. If people, in particular, women, girls, boys, effeminate men, have to live in preemptive fear to take strides daily to avoid rape, torture, retardation, permanent disabilities, and death, I think that's a major problem. I think what would balance out a rape culture is an accountability culture. Instead we have developed a habit of avoiding becoming a victim (carrying mace as a "precaution") and the real issue of avoiding creating serial rapists/molesters/violators of other persons is completely sidelined. It isn't funny when a man gets castrated, especially when our pool of men is steadily shrinking due to environmental toxins/endocrine disruptors, however, perhaps the best tactic to eliminate sexual violence is to eliminate the cause of that sexual violence. And typically the weapon wielded is nothing more than an engorged penis. I know it sounds very radical, I am not saying I am inherently right, but I do feel that at some point prison (if the offender even does get penalized) does not suffice but the patriarchy in general does not suffice.
And what is the elimination of the male foreskin?--nothing more then genital mutilation but it's accepted socially and even preferred by most as the ideal penis, circumcised vs uncircumcised, (those are "pole results" that I would like to see).
Frankly, we've already entered an era of transparency, it's already happening and technology has changed everything and no doubt will revolutionize the justice system whenever it finally does take a foothold and an era of accountability takes hold. For instance this "Revenge Porn" phenomenon and/or "Creepshots" phenomenon, it's an abstract physical violation, not unlike engaging in coitus with someone who is incapacitated and thereby against their freewill because at its pith that is what rape is, someone decrying your ownership to your own inherent sexuality, it's instead shucked for the sexual gratification, at times, of unknown others. How nice would it be, with just the install of an app on your Google Glasses for a single lady to access a potential sexual partner and learn that five previous sexual encounters by that male were recorded without consent and broadcast all over The Internet unknowingly and against the will of their female sexual partner, all of sudden that cute guy at the end of the bar isn't so cute anymore is he?--and to me, that would be a symbolic, electronic form of castration and one that's necessary for all the rest of us that aren't sexual deviants so we can walk freely as intelligent thinking beings with our own sexual autonomy not as dominated sexual beings, and not have to take preemptive precautions at being literally or figuratively defiled.
I tried starting this dialogue in my blog post entitled, "Revenge Porn, "Ratters", Creepshots, Is All ERAPE And This Is Why..."
Epidemic male on female rape in South Africa is what created the RapeAx device, otherwise an item born from the mother of invention due to *necessity*. More like internal mace, it's a safeguard against rape that does threaten to mutilate the male rapist's genitalia and it serves as a rape deterrent not just for those wearing it, it serves as a rape deterrent for all females that would otherwise be targeted because, *gasping shock of air* the potential rapist is unable to discern who wears one and who doesn't until it would be too late for the rapist to know for sure. So it reverses that aura of uncertainty and fear, it is not the woman fearing being raped it is the man fearing castration or pain to his genitals by the act of raping.
That is a serious and real power-shift.
And to critique amusement, that's a difficult thing to do because typically people laugh at uncomfortable truths! Does it make men uncomfortable that instead of women being worried if they "wear the wrong thing" or go "to the wrong place" at the "wrong time of day" "without having a buddy system in place" or that if mothers don't have to worry about their children getting sodomized by a friend, neighbor or family member, that instead perhaps the men have to live up to a higher expectation of themselves instead of penetrating sexual beasts, does all that make them uncomfortable?--you better believe it terrifies them and brings them discomfort. You better believe that notions of men becoming women (the true fear) by loss of penis makes most men uncomfortable as hell, which is why they laugh. And a woman, dear sexless God, do you remember Lorena Bobbit???--an abusive relationship/marriage, that ended in castration of wife against husband in 1993 for an act of rape, I was 8 or 9 years old when that happened and that was and still is a rare concept for many to grasp back then that a wife could be raped by her husband... ...people laugh and joke about things that make them uncomfortable for the most part and here it is 2014, and it'll sound cold, but I don't think feminists should worry themselves about male castration jokes, when there's still too many dead baby jokes, blonde jokes, and battered women jokes flying around. Forgive me, I'm a huge fan of your work, I like what you do, but this point, I do not agree on fully. It is also a very trivial thing to focus on when we have SO MANY social ills to correct.
Especially when chances are that the uncomfortable titters from the audience emanate from men.
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Revenge Porn, "Ratters", Creepshots, Is All ERAPE And This Is Why...
...I thought I knew what Revenge Porn was.
And maybe dear reader, you might not even have heard of Revenge Porn yet. This woman does an excellent job of breaking it down:
But not until I read this article based on true accounts, did I become aware that a seemingly disproportionate amount of women and girls had been hacked for intimate photos they had never even planned on sharing willingly with others. As if the notion of Revenge Porn in and of itself weren't despicable enough. But getting hacked, having private information getting blasted over the internet, resulting in the loss of relationships, friendships, jobs, and lives?--that's just an evil notion to "profit" off of. Where there was not even a so-called "revenge" committed just a random series of malicious acts on a stranger having done no wrong doing at all. And where does the data mining stop?--are drunken cleavage shots game?--bikini's? Some of these photos were Photoshop-ed and occasionally Photoshop lies can be very precise:
Hunter Moore, creator of IsAnyoneUp?--the first original Revenge Porn site--appears to have little remorse and feels little responsibility despite being an originator of this idea and enabler of like-minded others to have a platform to share a common interest in being creepy, soulless, infants.
It's erape, it's sexual exploitation. It's a gross violation of social trust. It's setting a terrible example to the younger generations. It's awful that law enforcement does so little!
It's truly terrifying how many women don't know the real dangers that can be out there.
Charlotte Laws is calling it cyber rape, I've been calling it erape, but before concepts of a supposed digital abstract "rape" can even be hoped to be remotely understood, it's important to understand the word rape in and of itself. The dictionary definition of rape is varied but I'm going to stick with the nonsexual definition of the word actually for this purpose which means to plunder, to spoil, to carry off by force, so rape is really about brutalization, having no reverence for sanctity, to ruin, to take away, to choose your choice for you. Sexual rape means lack of consent at its core. I did not give you consent, I said no, you hit me, you fondled me, you leered at me, you breathed on me, you touched me, when I said no.
Sexual rape is a physical violation, that you can be conscious of or not be conscious of happening but you personally rather it not happen yet it is and against your will. Against your consent. If your body is a temple someone is defiling your temple. They take something from you, they make you feel like a disposable object and then ask how you could have prevented it when it's done to you, when you ask for justice. While your rape kit rots on a shelf.
Erape is as just as physically and emotionally violating and devastating as physical sexual rape because it's the fucking Goddamn ultimate invasion of privacy. It's the ultimate mindfuck and it should be criminalized, it should be illegal, it should be handled seriously. But right now, regular ol' rape isn't handled seriously enough, if at all. You know what phrase I wish will die in the next 50 years?--"Boys will be boys." You know how many rapes or sexual assaults and sentencing that phrase has probably glossed over like an effect from Photoshop? Boys will be, what?!--not held accountable for their actions?
I remember being a child and watching like a Donahue type show and this woman called in, giving the most heartbreaking account of a gang rape she experienced in her home, while wearing a granny gown and a night-robe, in advanced stages of pregnancy. She was a victim of a home invasion at the hands of some bored teen-aged males and she eventually lost a baby she actually wanted. Each boy got a slap on a wrist and barely a criminal sentence apiece, can't remember how long, but even in my small head I remember thinking, "That's...that's...it?" The women proceeded to inquire of the judge why, why were you so lenient on them, and the judge said to her, "Boys will be boys." Her voice broke over the phone on the television, faceless, she protested that she was safe in her home, not even her ankles showing, not dressed like a whore "deserving to get raped" "just asking for it", that all she had been expecting was a baby...
We can't treat erape as just another "boys being boys" situation and we can't let them cry about the infringement on their rights and mince over copyright law. That's not what this is about.
It's about a lack of consent and dare I say, knowledge.
Like a creepshot is a form of erape. But you'd have to even know what a creepshot was to ascertain if you're the subject of one. Lemme paint an innocent enough picture for you, you feel bloated and you want some ice cream and it's like 2:00AM, so you slap on your yoga pants and drive up to the gas station, the ice cream that you wanted was on a shelf too low or a shelf too high and you were too preoccupied with you task to notice the creeper with a yoga pants fetish hovering about taking highly sexually proactive photos of you, without your knowledge or consent on his smartphone. To later get uploaded, on a forum where other creeps do the same shit, it's like a game to them, and they masturbate to you, and they grade you, critique you. These are not the type of men or boys, you want to date, get married to, and have children with, God forbid, have daughters with. It's not as easy for us ladies to spot the rapist and the pedophile right from the rip, you assholes don't exactly come with "tramp stamps" - if ya know what I mean.
What if they get enough of your face during a creepshot and they upload to a Facebook account they manage (try looking up just "yoga pants" on Facebook the next time you log in and see what you find) and through Facebook's new face recognition software the creeper knows your name?! They've found your online profile and maybe an email address, phone number, and IM handle. That's all they need to invade your life if they so desire. Or they are hackers and hack into your phone and steal all those naked selfies you decided to not send your ex after-all...
When I think about Amanda Todd...
ALSO READ:
The Price of Pleasure: Porn, Sex, and Silence - Part I
The Duke University Porn Star, Adolescentophilia, and Predatory Capitalism Connection
Does Porn Aide In The Creation Of Sexual Serial Killers?
The #AfterSex Selfie - Is It Pushing Digital Boundaries On The Topic Of Love?
3 Contemporary Inspirational Women You Needed To Know About Yesterday
Why Lovelace's Ordeal Is Our Ordeal
*IS* This REALLY The Best Way To Check Deez Nutz, Fellas?
DON JON, Despite The "Joisey" Accents, It Is STILL A Great Flick! - (film review) ***MINOR SPOILERS***
And maybe dear reader, you might not even have heard of Revenge Porn yet. This woman does an excellent job of breaking it down:
But not until I read this article based on true accounts, did I become aware that a seemingly disproportionate amount of women and girls had been hacked for intimate photos they had never even planned on sharing willingly with others. As if the notion of Revenge Porn in and of itself weren't despicable enough. But getting hacked, having private information getting blasted over the internet, resulting in the loss of relationships, friendships, jobs, and lives?--that's just an evil notion to "profit" off of. Where there was not even a so-called "revenge" committed just a random series of malicious acts on a stranger having done no wrong doing at all. And where does the data mining stop?--are drunken cleavage shots game?--bikini's? Some of these photos were Photoshop-ed and occasionally Photoshop lies can be very precise:
Hunter Moore, creator of IsAnyoneUp?--the first original Revenge Porn site--appears to have little remorse and feels little responsibility despite being an originator of this idea and enabler of like-minded others to have a platform to share a common interest in being creepy, soulless, infants.
It's erape, it's sexual exploitation. It's a gross violation of social trust. It's setting a terrible example to the younger generations. It's awful that law enforcement does so little!
It's truly terrifying how many women don't know the real dangers that can be out there.
Charlotte Laws is calling it cyber rape, I've been calling it erape, but before concepts of a supposed digital abstract "rape" can even be hoped to be remotely understood, it's important to understand the word rape in and of itself. The dictionary definition of rape is varied but I'm going to stick with the nonsexual definition of the word actually for this purpose which means to plunder, to spoil, to carry off by force, so rape is really about brutalization, having no reverence for sanctity, to ruin, to take away, to choose your choice for you. Sexual rape means lack of consent at its core. I did not give you consent, I said no, you hit me, you fondled me, you leered at me, you breathed on me, you touched me, when I said no.
Sexual rape is a physical violation, that you can be conscious of or not be conscious of happening but you personally rather it not happen yet it is and against your will. Against your consent. If your body is a temple someone is defiling your temple. They take something from you, they make you feel like a disposable object and then ask how you could have prevented it when it's done to you, when you ask for justice. While your rape kit rots on a shelf.
Erape is as just as physically and emotionally violating and devastating as physical sexual rape because it's the fucking Goddamn ultimate invasion of privacy. It's the ultimate mindfuck and it should be criminalized, it should be illegal, it should be handled seriously. But right now, regular ol' rape isn't handled seriously enough, if at all. You know what phrase I wish will die in the next 50 years?--"Boys will be boys." You know how many rapes or sexual assaults and sentencing that phrase has probably glossed over like an effect from Photoshop? Boys will be, what?!--not held accountable for their actions?
I remember being a child and watching like a Donahue type show and this woman called in, giving the most heartbreaking account of a gang rape she experienced in her home, while wearing a granny gown and a night-robe, in advanced stages of pregnancy. She was a victim of a home invasion at the hands of some bored teen-aged males and she eventually lost a baby she actually wanted. Each boy got a slap on a wrist and barely a criminal sentence apiece, can't remember how long, but even in my small head I remember thinking, "That's...that's...it?" The women proceeded to inquire of the judge why, why were you so lenient on them, and the judge said to her, "Boys will be boys." Her voice broke over the phone on the television, faceless, she protested that she was safe in her home, not even her ankles showing, not dressed like a whore "deserving to get raped" "just asking for it", that all she had been expecting was a baby...
We can't treat erape as just another "boys being boys" situation and we can't let them cry about the infringement on their rights and mince over copyright law. That's not what this is about.
It's about a lack of consent and dare I say, knowledge.
Like a creepshot is a form of erape. But you'd have to even know what a creepshot was to ascertain if you're the subject of one. Lemme paint an innocent enough picture for you, you feel bloated and you want some ice cream and it's like 2:00AM, so you slap on your yoga pants and drive up to the gas station, the ice cream that you wanted was on a shelf too low or a shelf too high and you were too preoccupied with you task to notice the creeper with a yoga pants fetish hovering about taking highly sexually proactive photos of you, without your knowledge or consent on his smartphone. To later get uploaded, on a forum where other creeps do the same shit, it's like a game to them, and they masturbate to you, and they grade you, critique you. These are not the type of men or boys, you want to date, get married to, and have children with, God forbid, have daughters with. It's not as easy for us ladies to spot the rapist and the pedophile right from the rip, you assholes don't exactly come with "tramp stamps" - if ya know what I mean.
What if they get enough of your face during a creepshot and they upload to a Facebook account they manage (try looking up just "yoga pants" on Facebook the next time you log in and see what you find) and through Facebook's new face recognition software the creeper knows your name?! They've found your online profile and maybe an email address, phone number, and IM handle. That's all they need to invade your life if they so desire. Or they are hackers and hack into your phone and steal all those naked selfies you decided to not send your ex after-all...
When I think about Amanda Todd...
...about very young girls making YouTube videos of themselves to get evaluated on a false idea of beauty voluntarily asking complete strangers, "Am I pretty or am I ugly?"...
(Why aren't you busy inventing a new computer programming language instead?! Oh that's right, we got investors in pink dye).
...when I think about RAT operators referring to the females they stalk and erape at will as slaves...
...I wonder if on your hypothetical way to the gas station bloated one day in yoga pants for ice cream the truck your driving behind has this kind of paint job on his tailgate...
...would the driver be a "ratter", a creepshot taker, a revenge porn uploader or just a revenge porn view, just your average normal eraping guy or are those tailgates blank, more low profile, less "hilarious"?
Defend the women in your life. Especially if most dudes would erape them, while raping them, hogtied, and calling them a slut.
The Price of Pleasure: Porn, Sex, and Silence - Part I
The Duke University Porn Star, Adolescentophilia, and Predatory Capitalism Connection
Does Porn Aide In The Creation Of Sexual Serial Killers?
The #AfterSex Selfie - Is It Pushing Digital Boundaries On The Topic Of Love?
3 Contemporary Inspirational Women You Needed To Know About Yesterday
Why Lovelace's Ordeal Is Our Ordeal
*IS* This REALLY The Best Way To Check Deez Nutz, Fellas?
DON JON, Despite The "Joisey" Accents, It Is STILL A Great Flick! - (film review) ***MINOR SPOILERS***
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