case: (Default)
Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2015-02-08 03:20 pm

[ SECRET POST #2958 ]


⌈ Secret Post #2958 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

01.


__________________________________________________



02.


__________________________________________________



03.


__________________________________________________



04.


__________________________________________________



05.


__________________________________________________



06.


__________________________________________________



07.


__________________________________________________



08.


__________________________________________________



09.


__________________________________________________



10.














Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 054 secrets from Secret Submission Post #423.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.
nyxelestia: Rose Icon (Default)

Re: Rape Fantasies and...Rape Apologism?

[personal profile] nyxelestia 2015-02-09 02:08 am (UTC)(link)
This pretty much is the reason why most people in the BDSM community hate/look down on 50 Shades - not that it's unhealthy sexual dynamics, but that it's unhealthy sexual dynamics passing itself off as healthy ones.

Claiming that rape fantasies are the reason why feminism can't gain any traction completely ignores decades of both feminism history and kink history. Some incredibly ardent feminists are bottoms/subs/masochists from BDSM. How would they explain the extensive women's rights and feminist movements stemming from campuses if young women can't be feminists because of rape fantasies? How do they explain that today's generation of college women are the ones fighting back against the sexual assault on campus, if rape fantasies somehow mitigate feminism?

Also, this mindset implies that they think young women are incapable of telling apart fantasy from reality - exactly what some misogynists accused women of, and exactly what feminists call bullshit on. And if they are going to claim that women having rape fantasies is proof that something is wrong with a woman, and thus that somehow that such women can't fight for or don't deserve equal rights...what makes them better than the misogynistic culture that continuously tells us women are too emotional and capricious to be able to manage themselves, let alone be given positions of leadership?

By labeling rape fantasies as "wrong" when no one is actually being hurt by them (unwillingly), they are undermining these women's choices, exactly the thing we hate misogynists for.

*looks up* That...may have gotten away from me, a bit. Maybe.

Re: Rape Fantasies and...Rape Apologism?

(Anonymous) 2015-02-09 02:25 am (UTC)(link)
I agree, but I don't get what a woman's age has to do with whether she has rape fantasies or not. I'm in my early 20s and never had them.

Yesterday someone was saying all the 50 shades of gray fans were actually OLDER women, so implying that older women were more likely to be into that stuff, now apparently young women all have rape fantasies...
nyxelestia: Rose Icon (Default)

Re: Rape Fantasies and...Rape Apologism?

[personal profile] nyxelestia 2015-02-09 04:05 am (UTC)(link)
On the flip side, I've been having rape fantasies or analogues to rape fantasies since I was in elementary school. *shrugs*

Apparently, the women OP was talking to said it was only young women having the fantasies, and that because young women were having rape fantasies this is somehow to blame for how feminism can't gain any traction anymore. *eyeroll*