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[dreamer_easy]

I'd express some sort of outrage over Miranda Devine's offering this morning, only I can't actually work out what she's saying. I think she's trying to get across that men are natural born rapists and that women's best bet is to try and appeal to their chivalry, but the piece is such a muddle that I can't really be sure. One paragraph says that men's behaviour is natural and another says that girls learn their attitude to sex from the media. Whatever the hell she's on about, it's all feminism's fault, of course.

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[zanda-myrande.livejournal.com]

Um...I hated team sports and managed to avoid them throughout my school career and ever since, and I have no problem at all controlling my violent urges, unlike a number of footballers and other sports personalities who have appeared in the news.

"Appeal to men's better natures?" Her ideal of feminism is "please don't hurt us?" Definite grounds for outrage there, I'd say.

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

Devine seems to think footballers sexually assault women because they're manly men sloshing in testosterone - not because they're pampered stars who keep getting away with it.

You know, I keep hearing that feminists think men are a bunch of rapist neanderthals, but I've almost never heard that belief espoused by anyone who wasn't bashing feminism at the time. Most men choose not to rape. On that simple fact alone, the "it's only natural" claim collapses.

[pbristow.livejournal.com]

Well, "it's only natural" for us to crawl around on the carpet drooling with no trousers on. But by the age of 6 most of us manage to grow out of that stage, and only ever revert on Friday nights. =;o}

[zanda-myrande.livejournal.com]

Which chimes in with my recent post (http://smallship1.livejournal.com/393803.html) on emotion and reason. Yes, in a sense it does seem to be natural for men to have the impulse to use force to achieve sex, just one of the many reasons why I dislike my technical gender (testosterone: do not exceed the recommended dose)...but as you say, most men exercise reason and choose not to give in to those impulses.

The fact that society chooses to give selected males the impression that ordinary rules don't apply to them is just another symptom of what alien races would call "la maladie humaine." If, you know, they spoke French.