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So, I'm going to venture beyond the issue of consent (which legally, and ethically is the only issue), into a grey area of perception. Often when men think abo
by JabavuAdams 16y ago
So, I'm going to venture beyond the issue of consent (which legally, and ethically is the only issue), into a grey area of perception.
Often when men think about this situation, they think of some non-repulsive (to them) woman who doesn't have any power over them grabbing their package. Often they conclude "Well that wasn't so bad. I generally want to have sex with females. A female just pawed my package. Cool, maybe she'll sleep with me."
Now let's assume that's a hypothetical guy's default reaction. What are some nuances that might change that reaction?
1) What if the woman is repulsive to the man? What if his friends will mock or shame him?
2) What if rather than pawing at his package, she tried to stick her finger in his ass? There's a psychological (and physical!) difference in vulnerability to having stuff put in you, rather than probing with your appendages.
3) What if the aggressor has power over the victim (I'm not saying that's the case in the article)? I.e. She can paw you, and you're going to always wonder whether your next review depends on your reaction.
Now, you may think I'm distorting the situation, but I'm just trying to illustrate that even for a guy who thinks his reaction would be "Cool, gropage.", the real situation may well just feel like an attack.
I.e. it's fun to theorize about men's reactions versus women's, but unless you're actually a man who has been the victim of unwanted attention, you're unlikely to really know how you'd feel about it.
My reaction on reading the article was "Holy shit, people actually do that?" I guess I live in a sheltered world, oh and I'm a large male.
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- tommorris 16y agoAnother hypothetical: 4. The guy is gay and doesn't want to be inappropriately touched by a woman because he's attracted only to men. I think that, in general, men getting sexually assaulted by women is something we take less seriously because, yes, as you say, men want sex, they aren't so bothered and because in general men have power (physical and otherwise) over women. But in most cases there are good reasons to challenge those assumptions, which we should do.