Actually, some people have taken this literally
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/444213
Because children are "safer", there has been an increase in child abuse in South Africa.
ETA: I see Marduk beat me to it.
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Actually, some people have taken this literally
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/444213
Because children are "safer", there has been an increase in child abuse in South Africa.
ETA: I see Marduk beat me to it.
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Well, yes, but once someone was basically educated that women are an accessory for his dick and that a woman's whole role and aspiration in life is to provide nookie, is anyone really that surprised that rape also doesn't seem that far off the menu either?
Plus, you don't even have to look much farther than some rural areas in the Balkans to find a lot of women ranging from indifferent to outright dismissive towards another woman's being raped. I'm thinking they didn't exactly instill their offspring with a horror towards doing that either.
Opinions like Ayn Rand's basically that the bitch really wanted it or was inviting it -- ok, not exact words; the exact words are, "If it was rape, it was rape by engraved invitation." -- about a rape scene she described, are actually not particularly uncommon in the part of the world she comes from. And again, not just among men. That's a woman who did that affront to literature and good taste.
Heck, you don't even have to go too far east. Opinions that some other woman just needs a dick if she shows any ambition or complains about anything, or that if she got a promotion it was via horizontal athletics, or whatnot, are still known to pop up in the west too. Or opinions which boil down to: conjugal rape doesn't exist, because when a woman gets married, the Bible says that her husband owns her body and she loses all rights to say no. They're occasionally written by _USA_ bible belt apologists, some of those being even women.
So, yes, those guys have mothers. That's actually a part of the problem
Good points, and Oh my gosh, the Fountainhead - good grief, what a wretched book that was. I read that book when I was quite young, maybe 12 or 13. I can remember asking my mother something along the lines of, "Is it rape if the woman secretly wanted it." My mother asked where I would get an idea like that, and I showed her that book, and I got about an hour lecture on women's rights, sexual violence, and the perils of reading Ayn Rand.