RTThu, 31 May 2018 14:31 UTC
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Feminist Germaine Greer has come under fire after she called for rape sentences to be lowered, claiming non-consensual intercourse is merely "bad sex." She was speaking at a prominent literary festival in Wales.
Criticism is pouring through Twitter after Greer said
200 hours of community service and an 'r' tattooed on the rapist would be enough to compensate a woman for being sexually abused.
"Most rapes don't involve any injury whatsoever," Greer said while speaking at the Hay Festival.
"We are told that it is a sexually violent crime, an expert like Quentin Tarantino will tell us that when you use the word rape you're talking about violence, a throwing them down... it is one of the most violent crimes in the world. Bullshit Tarantino.
"Most rape is just lazy, just careless, insensitive. Every time a man rolls over on his exhausted wife and insists on enjoying his conjugal rights he is raping her.
It will never end up in a court of law."Instead of thinking of rape as a spectacularly violent crime,
and some rapes are, think about it as non consensual... that is bad sex. Sex where there is
no communication, no tenderness, no mention of love."
The author of '
The Female Eunuch' then claimed it would be the only way for women to be genuinely believed and given justice.
"If we are going to say trust us, believe us, if we do say that our accusation should stand as evidence, then we do have to reduce the tariff for rape."
Her comments sparked fury on Twitter, with users calling into question her claim to being a feminist and accusing her of utter "ignorance" on the matter.
It is not the first time Greer has sparked outrage. She was accused back in 2015 of being "grossly offensive" after she said trans females can never really be women.
She told the BBC's
Victoria Derbyshire program: "Just because you lop off your d**k and then wear a dress doesn't make you a f*****g woman. I've asked my doctor to give me long ears and liver spots and I'm going to wear a brown coat but that won't turn me into a f*****g cocker spaniel.
"I do understand that some people are born intersex and they deserve support in coming to terms with their gender but it's not the same thing.
A man who gets his d**k chopped off is actually inflicting an extraordinary act of violence on himself."
Greer at the same event detailed her experience of being raped at the age of 18. She said she was beaten by a man ordering her to say "f**k me." She said she is uncertain whether she said it or not, but added "how would that look on my mobile phone in court saying 'fuck me'?" Greer did not report the incident to the police.
Comment: The irony is that Germaine Greer is merely following feminist logic to its logical conclusion. "Free" sex entails non-consensual sex. It wouldn't be free otherwise. And that's exactly what we've seen over the past 50 years: increasingly "free" sex, and increasingly draconic anti-sex laws to crack down on the unwanted aspects of said "free" sex.
But it's not even clear exactly what Greer was saying. She seems both to write off "most rape" as simply non-consensual sex,
and to make a distinction between violent, coerced sex and simply sex that one regrets having, or which is engaged in with no explicit consent or real thought. And the thing is, according to the feminist definition of rape, even consensual sex that is later regretted by one party can be deemed rape. So in that sense, yes, many cases of "rape" should have lesser sentences,
because they are not rape. Actually, they shouldn't have any sentence, because consensual-but-regrettable sex is not a crime. Certainly not a branding and community service. All this controversy and confusion would be cleared up if we simply stuck with a sane definition of rape.
Update (June 5): The reaction from the Feminazi Left has been swift. One feminist
wrote that Greer "can no longer be called a feminist" (lucky her!).
Also of interest is Greer's previous statements which go against radical Leftist ideology. In 2015
she made waves by saying that she did not accept that post-operative men were women. She sensibly pointed out there are distinct experiences for women that a simple surgery can't create:
"Being a woman is a bit tricky. If you didn't find your pants full of blood when you were 13 there's something important about being a woman you don't know. It's not all cake and jam."
There was a
petition to cancel the Cardiff speech by her because of her "transphobic comments." Also in 2017 she denounced the all-female school Murray Edwards Collge for allowing transgender women to attend. She again made very good points regarding her stance:
"If [Murray Edwards] really don't believe that gender is binary, then they really shouldn't be a single sex college. Their position is ridiculous. The only sane thing for them to do is to cease discriminating on the basis of assigned gender of any kind."
As we have seen, anyone who begins making sensible comments on the hysterical insanity surrounding the radical feminist ideology will immediately be shunned from the group and denounced as sexist, transphobic, etc. The PC thought police do not tolerate anyone swerving away from the accepted groupthink, so a sane intelligent thinker like Greer now is no longer allowed to be a feminist. She should feel lucky.
Comment: The irony is that Germaine Greer is merely following feminist logic to its logical conclusion. "Free" sex entails non-consensual sex. It wouldn't be free otherwise. And that's exactly what we've seen over the past 50 years: increasingly "free" sex, and increasingly draconic anti-sex laws to crack down on the unwanted aspects of said "free" sex.
But it's not even clear exactly what Greer was saying. She seems both to write off "most rape" as simply non-consensual sex, and to make a distinction between violent, coerced sex and simply sex that one regrets having, or which is engaged in with no explicit consent or real thought. And the thing is, according to the feminist definition of rape, even consensual sex that is later regretted by one party can be deemed rape. So in that sense, yes, many cases of "rape" should have lesser sentences, because they are not rape. Actually, they shouldn't have any sentence, because consensual-but-regrettable sex is not a crime. Certainly not a branding and community service. All this controversy and confusion would be cleared up if we simply stuck with a sane definition of rape.
Update (June 5): The reaction from the Feminazi Left has been swift. One feminist wrote that Greer "can no longer be called a feminist" (lucky her!).
Also of interest is Greer's previous statements which go against radical Leftist ideology. In 2015 she made waves by saying that she did not accept that post-operative men were women. She sensibly pointed out there are distinct experiences for women that a simple surgery can't create: There was a petition to cancel the Cardiff speech by her because of her "transphobic comments." Also in 2017 she denounced the all-female school Murray Edwards Collge for allowing transgender women to attend. She again made very good points regarding her stance: As we have seen, anyone who begins making sensible comments on the hysterical insanity surrounding the radical feminist ideology will immediately be shunned from the group and denounced as sexist, transphobic, etc. The PC thought police do not tolerate anyone swerving away from the accepted groupthink, so a sane intelligent thinker like Greer now is no longer allowed to be a feminist. She should feel lucky.