Word: raped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...phrase also conveys "an excellent sexual connotation" since sexual curiousity impels one to take a chance and accept a blind date. But Kosinski twists the sexual implications of a blind date in his book, using the term to describe a rape technique Levanter learns as a teenager...
...brutality of the rape scene in Blind Date adds to the fuel of those who criticize Kosinski for the insensitive treatment of women in his novels. Told from Levanter's viewpoint, the rape becomes a justifiable act, the logical culmination of his lust. Elsewhere in the novel, female characters seldom rise above the status of sexual playmates to which Levanter, and presumably Kosinski, relegates them...
...blind date," originally a slang phrase for a rape technique Levanter learns as an adolescent, soon becomes a metaphor Kosinski uses to describe people's willingness to embark on the dramatic, unpredictable incidents with which he feels they should fill their lives...
...male students' assumption that she is as free with her body as she is with her opinions. But we are less surprised than Mira when after a night spent dancing giddily in a bar, a friend has to whisk her away and lock her up to prevent a gang rape...
...rape destroyed Val. She placed little value on her daughter's chastity but a great deal on her safety, her integrity, her right to be a person--all of which the rape defied. In her political discussions Val had avoided saying "the system." But in the case of the rape there was no sidestepping the word. The system was men, and the system was guilty--cops, doctors, attorneys, as well as the black youth who pled guilty and the judge who sentenced him to six months for battery. Val recalled her liberal sympathy for the black boys in the line...