Feminist Armchair Regime: Genital mutilation isn't funny: The following is cross-posted from the Damsel in de Tech blog. Click here to see the original. Every once in a while there's a new...
I wrote what's below as a comment to this blog post (a blog I enjoy reading) however of course the comment post was too long so I'm just going to post the comment as my own blog post to serve as what I hope will be interpreted as a thoughtful response to their piece on how male castration isn't funny, male castration is NOT funny, of course, but there needs to be more dialogue on the topic. In order to completely understand my comment, you also must read their blog post that elicited my comment. So merely for your thoughtful consideration dear reader:
I actually disagree. If we ever develop the type of justice system necessary to deduce without flaw or margin of error that a rapist raped or that a molester molested, I think there should be a real threat of becoming an eunuch with what you did 'scared' on your face. If people, in particular, women, girls, boys, effeminate men, have to live in preemptive fear to take strides daily to avoid rape, torture, retardation, permanent disabilities, and death, I think that's a major problem. I think what would balance out a rape culture is an accountability culture. Instead we have developed a habit of avoiding becoming a victim (carrying mace as a "precaution") and the real issue of avoiding creating serial rapists/molesters/violators of other persons is completely sidelined. It isn't funny when a man gets castrated, especially when our pool of men is steadily shrinking due to environmental toxins/endocrine disruptors, however, perhaps the best tactic to eliminate sexual violence is to eliminate the cause of that sexual violence. And typically the weapon wielded is nothing more than an engorged penis. I know it sounds very radical, I am not saying I am inherently right, but I do feel that at some point prison (if the offender even does get penalized) does not suffice but the patriarchy in general does not suffice.
And what is the elimination of the male foreskin?--nothing more then genital mutilation but it's accepted socially and even preferred by most as the ideal penis, circumcised vs uncircumcised, (those are "pole results" that I would like to see).
Frankly, we've already entered an era of transparency, it's already happening and technology has changed everything and no doubt will revolutionize the justice system whenever it finally does take a foothold and an era of accountability takes hold. For instance this "Revenge Porn" phenomenon and/or "Creepshots" phenomenon, it's an abstract physical violation, not unlike engaging in coitus with someone who is incapacitated and thereby against their freewill because at its pith that is what rape is, someone decrying your ownership to your own inherent sexuality, it's instead shucked for the sexual gratification, at times, of unknown others. How nice would it be, with just the install of an app on your Google Glasses for a single lady to access a potential sexual partner and learn that five previous sexual encounters by that male were recorded without consent and broadcast all over The Internet unknowingly and against the will of their female sexual partner, all of sudden that cute guy at the end of the bar isn't so cute anymore is he?--and to me, that would be a symbolic, electronic form of castration and one that's necessary for all the rest of us that aren't sexual deviants so we can walk freely as intelligent thinking beings with our own sexual autonomy not as dominated sexual beings, and not have to take preemptive precautions at being literally or figuratively defiled.
I tried starting this dialogue in my blog post entitled, "Revenge Porn, "Ratters", Creepshots, Is All ERAPE And This Is Why..."
Epidemic male on female rape in South Africa is what created the RapeAx device, otherwise an item born from the mother of invention due to *necessity*. More like internal mace, it's a safeguard against rape that does threaten to mutilate the male rapist's genitalia and it serves as a rape deterrent not just for those wearing it, it serves as a rape deterrent for all females that would otherwise be targeted because, *gasping shock of air* the potential rapist is unable to discern who wears one and who doesn't until it would be too late for the rapist to know for sure. So it reverses that aura of uncertainty and fear, it is not the woman fearing being raped it is the man fearing castration or pain to his genitals by the act of raping.
That is a serious and real power-shift.
And to critique amusement, that's a difficult thing to do because typically people laugh at uncomfortable truths! Does it make men uncomfortable that instead of women being worried if they "wear the wrong thing" or go "to the wrong place" at the "wrong time of day" "without having a buddy system in place" or that if mothers don't have to worry about their children getting sodomized by a friend, neighbor or family member, that instead perhaps the men have to live up to a higher expectation of themselves instead of penetrating sexual beasts, does all that make them uncomfortable?--you better believe it terrifies them and brings them discomfort. You better believe that notions of men becoming women (the true fear) by loss of penis makes most men uncomfortable as hell, which is why they laugh. And a woman, dear sexless God, do you remember Lorena Bobbit???--an abusive relationship/marriage, that ended in castration of wife against husband in 1993 for an act of rape, I was 8 or 9 years old when that happened and that was and still is a rare concept for many to grasp back then that a wife could be raped by her husband... ...people laugh and joke about things that make them uncomfortable for the most part and here it is 2014, and it'll sound cold, but I don't think feminists should worry themselves about male castration jokes, when there's still too many dead baby jokes, blonde jokes, and battered women jokes flying around. Forgive me, I'm a huge fan of your work, I like what you do, but this point, I do not agree on fully. It is also a very trivial thing to focus on when we have SO MANY social ills to correct.
Especially when chances are that the uncomfortable titters from the audience emanate from men.
I wrote what's below as a comment to this blog post (a blog I enjoy reading) however of course the comment post was too long so I'm just going to post the comment as my own blog post to serve as what I hope will be interpreted as a thoughtful response to their piece on how male castration isn't funny, male castration is NOT funny, of course, but there needs to be more dialogue on the topic. In order to completely understand my comment, you also must read their blog post that elicited my comment. So merely for your thoughtful consideration dear reader:
I actually disagree. If we ever develop the type of justice system necessary to deduce without flaw or margin of error that a rapist raped or that a molester molested, I think there should be a real threat of becoming an eunuch with what you did 'scared' on your face. If people, in particular, women, girls, boys, effeminate men, have to live in preemptive fear to take strides daily to avoid rape, torture, retardation, permanent disabilities, and death, I think that's a major problem. I think what would balance out a rape culture is an accountability culture. Instead we have developed a habit of avoiding becoming a victim (carrying mace as a "precaution") and the real issue of avoiding creating serial rapists/molesters/violators of other persons is completely sidelined. It isn't funny when a man gets castrated, especially when our pool of men is steadily shrinking due to environmental toxins/endocrine disruptors, however, perhaps the best tactic to eliminate sexual violence is to eliminate the cause of that sexual violence. And typically the weapon wielded is nothing more than an engorged penis. I know it sounds very radical, I am not saying I am inherently right, but I do feel that at some point prison (if the offender even does get penalized) does not suffice but the patriarchy in general does not suffice.
And what is the elimination of the male foreskin?--nothing more then genital mutilation but it's accepted socially and even preferred by most as the ideal penis, circumcised vs uncircumcised, (those are "pole results" that I would like to see).
Frankly, we've already entered an era of transparency, it's already happening and technology has changed everything and no doubt will revolutionize the justice system whenever it finally does take a foothold and an era of accountability takes hold. For instance this "Revenge Porn" phenomenon and/or "Creepshots" phenomenon, it's an abstract physical violation, not unlike engaging in coitus with someone who is incapacitated and thereby against their freewill because at its pith that is what rape is, someone decrying your ownership to your own inherent sexuality, it's instead shucked for the sexual gratification, at times, of unknown others. How nice would it be, with just the install of an app on your Google Glasses for a single lady to access a potential sexual partner and learn that five previous sexual encounters by that male were recorded without consent and broadcast all over The Internet unknowingly and against the will of their female sexual partner, all of sudden that cute guy at the end of the bar isn't so cute anymore is he?--and to me, that would be a symbolic, electronic form of castration and one that's necessary for all the rest of us that aren't sexual deviants so we can walk freely as intelligent thinking beings with our own sexual autonomy not as dominated sexual beings, and not have to take preemptive precautions at being literally or figuratively defiled.
I tried starting this dialogue in my blog post entitled, "Revenge Porn, "Ratters", Creepshots, Is All ERAPE And This Is Why..."
Epidemic male on female rape in South Africa is what created the RapeAx device, otherwise an item born from the mother of invention due to *necessity*. More like internal mace, it's a safeguard against rape that does threaten to mutilate the male rapist's genitalia and it serves as a rape deterrent not just for those wearing it, it serves as a rape deterrent for all females that would otherwise be targeted because, *gasping shock of air* the potential rapist is unable to discern who wears one and who doesn't until it would be too late for the rapist to know for sure. So it reverses that aura of uncertainty and fear, it is not the woman fearing being raped it is the man fearing castration or pain to his genitals by the act of raping.
That is a serious and real power-shift.
And to critique amusement, that's a difficult thing to do because typically people laugh at uncomfortable truths! Does it make men uncomfortable that instead of women being worried if they "wear the wrong thing" or go "to the wrong place" at the "wrong time of day" "without having a buddy system in place" or that if mothers don't have to worry about their children getting sodomized by a friend, neighbor or family member, that instead perhaps the men have to live up to a higher expectation of themselves instead of penetrating sexual beasts, does all that make them uncomfortable?--you better believe it terrifies them and brings them discomfort. You better believe that notions of men becoming women (the true fear) by loss of penis makes most men uncomfortable as hell, which is why they laugh. And a woman, dear sexless God, do you remember Lorena Bobbit???--an abusive relationship/marriage, that ended in castration of wife against husband in 1993 for an act of rape, I was 8 or 9 years old when that happened and that was and still is a rare concept for many to grasp back then that a wife could be raped by her husband... ...people laugh and joke about things that make them uncomfortable for the most part and here it is 2014, and it'll sound cold, but I don't think feminists should worry themselves about male castration jokes, when there's still too many dead baby jokes, blonde jokes, and battered women jokes flying around. Forgive me, I'm a huge fan of your work, I like what you do, but this point, I do not agree on fully. It is also a very trivial thing to focus on when we have SO MANY social ills to correct.
Especially when chances are that the uncomfortable titters from the audience emanate from men.
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