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Originally Posted by notyourfiend
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combinded this w what i wrote yesterday:
we are using the term/metaphor (even though i would argue that it isn't even a metaphor) rape culture differently. i'm using it to denote a culture in which attitudes which promote rape/sexual violence are perpetuated/culturally acceptable. this mindset - the mindset that encourages men to get off when they want, especially in pornography and the like, the one in which people don't think of their sex workers as people w/o any regards to their background/experiences but as objects for their fetish - combined with global capitalism creates the climate for human trafficking.
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about the use of the term rape culture, i agree with the use of the term. it's a good one. there's definitely that-- saying "fuck you" is, actually, an innocent offshoot of american rape culture ("my dick is bigger than yours-- fuck you"--- see george carlin talking about religion for more).
about saying that capitalism rapes people, well, something is always raping us in one sense or another, so i guess, yah, but it overgeneralizes rape and it would allow us to say things like "europe was raped by the plague in the 14th century".
actually i think that capitalism created the climate where human trafficking can be a moral outrage-- we do value the individual after all more than, say, the romans did, and here we are saying "OMFG" rather than "i think i'm gonna go get me a slave in the market".
human trafficking is as old as moses. what's impressive is that it's nowadays ILLEGAL, rather than business as usual.
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Originally Posted by notyourfiend
i never advocated a matriarchy either. in fact, i believe that promoting one sex over the other falls into the traps in the oppressive gender binary which i would otherwise like the eradicate.
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oh no, i never meant to imply that you advocated matriarchy. it was a sort of preemptive answer, in the sense that if you look at it, men have been able to get off whenever they wanted to since we've had warfare-- raping and pillaging have always gone hand in hand with war. ghengis khan didn't need capitalism. but before the advent of war culture, some people have speculated, we had an enlightened matriarchy where everyone was nice and what not. i was just discounting that & saying i bet we've been violent and brutal (and nice and cuddly too) since we were lemurs.