Academic Feminist: Women Only Want To Have Sex With Men Because Of Rape Culture
Academic feminist Dee L.R. Graham has theorized that women only want to have sex with men because of male violence and rape culture. Essentially, Graham says that women suffer from a form of Stockholm Syndrome at the hands of men, their oppressive "captors," and only feel affection or attraction to men as a means of survival.
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Of course, this is all complete nonsense. If heterosexual love is merely a symptom of individualized male oppression, wouldn't lesbians be the only women who have not been abused by men? This is, of course, not the case. In fact, I'm a woman who has never experienced any physical or sexual abuse from men, and I'm 100 percent heterosexual.
Further, how exactly would Graham account for higher abuse rates in same-sex relationships? The Advocate reports:
By Graham's logic, due to these rates, more women would be homosexuals because of their fear of women. This is also nonsense.
And what about all the women living in countries in Europe, or Canada and the United States, statistically free from any over-exaggerated "rape culture" or male oppression this feminist author speaks of? Wouldn't we see huge numbers of lesbianism, or asexuality at the least? But we don't because women aren't merely attracted to men because of manifestations of fear; instead biology and evolution play a massive role here.
But at least Graham isn't off teaching her loony theories to our impressionable youth. Oh, wait.
Academic feminist Dee L.R. Graham has theorized that women only want to have sex with men because of male violence and rape culture. Essentially, Graham says that women suffer from a form of Stockholm Syndrome at the hands of men, their oppressive "captors," and only feel affection or attraction to men as a means of survival.
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Of course, this is all complete nonsense. If heterosexual love is merely a symptom of individualized male oppression, wouldn't lesbians be the only women who have not been abused by men? This is, of course, not the case. In fact, I'm a woman who has never experienced any physical or sexual abuse from men, and I'm 100 percent heterosexual.
Further, how exactly would Graham account for higher abuse rates in same-sex relationships? The Advocate reports:
The National Violence Against Women survey found that 21.5 percent of men and 35.4 percent of women living with a same-sex partner experienced intimate-partner physical violence in their lifetimes, compared with 7.1 percent and 20.4 percent for men and women, respectively, with a history of only opposite-sex cohabitation.
By Graham's logic, due to these rates, more women would be homosexuals because of their fear of women. This is also nonsense.
And what about all the women living in countries in Europe, or Canada and the United States, statistically free from any over-exaggerated "rape culture" or male oppression this feminist author speaks of? Wouldn't we see huge numbers of lesbianism, or asexuality at the least? But we don't because women aren't merely attracted to men because of manifestations of fear; instead biology and evolution play a massive role here.
But at least Graham isn't off teaching her loony theories to our impressionable youth. Oh, wait.