Word: raped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Among some American bike and youth gangs today, gang rape is standard punishment for infractions by females...
...rape of males in prison is also used by Brownmiller to help advance her thesis: rape is primarily an act of power, not of sex. Most penal experts agree that rape is part of the system of establishing the power structure in many jails; a prisoner will either rape or be raped. Sodomy is so important to prison society, Brownmiller says, that even if prisoners were allowed sex with visiting wives or girl friends, homosexual rape would continue...
Brownmiller is ingenious in discerning the pro-rape message in today's culture: rock stars who feature abuse of females in their routines, comic books that dwell on images of bound women, men's magazines and women's romance magazines that feed rape fantasies, the obvious hostility to women that frequently shows up in male pornography, much of it devoted to bondage and sadism. In Roger Vadim's recent film Charlotte, the heroine voluntarily submits to murder during sex. (Last week there was growing suspicion that some film producers were outdoing Vadim's fantasies...
...supplying a theory for under standable female resentment, Brown-miller has politicized rape in a chilling way. Rape, she insists, is somehow a conscious conspiracy among...
...enemy, and the horrible rapes at My Lai were just incidents in "the casual continuing war against women." The line between psychopaths and normal men-all members of the same team-is erased. Rape is the real basis of the family, monogamy or any other exclusive sexual relationship be tween men and women. In sum: Brownmiller's analysis of rape may have less to do with the problem itself than with the sour antimale, anti-family attitudes currently fashionable among militant feminists...