/lit/ - Literature

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If you look at most of history, other more patriarchal cultures and other species of animals, the norm is that the male more or less has to force the female to have sex with him and it's basically expected that females (even if they are actually interested) would feign disinterest in order to test the male's willingness to pursue her. In many species, like mallards, the female will always flee the male and the only way for them to copulate is through rape. This makes perfect evolutionary sense, as it selects for the strongest, most aggressive males who will produce the strongest, most aggressive offspring. This programming is deeply embedded into the human psyche, to the point that statistically, over 60% of women and 40% of men have had rape fantasies.

Even female sexual fantasies that don't involve rape effectively involve being treated like a passive object. In other aspects of life, of course, women would like to be treated as equals and have their consent respected, but getting what they want on a moral level will always leave them deeply unfulfilled on a sexual level. Hence the impulse to create what is essentially rape porn disguised as literature, in which the archetypal feminist woman ends up humiliated at the hands of a powerful man.

If you look closely even supposedly feminist literature like the Handmaid's Tale or Women Talking is really just a better concealed expression of this phenomenon. Rape in women's literature is always eroticised, no matter how hard it tries to convince you otherwise. There is a deep, primal need that this material is fulfilling that modern women are deeply embarrassed of but can't help gravitating toward. Man made the modern world, but man wasn't made for the modern world.

Modern woman is constantly in a state of internal conflict between her instincts and her ideology. Feminism tells women to be independent, self-centered and not to seek male validation. Evolutionary instinct tells women to be submissive, dependent and attracted to powerful and dangerous men whose offspring will best be able to outcompete other men. The synthesis of these opposing forces is that women will still be attracted to the strongest, most violent men but will pretend not to be.

So in the best selling porno... I mean, fantasy novel A Court of Thorns and Roses, the main character is a Catniss-esque girlboss heroine who gets kidnapped by a fairy prince man and proceeds to get herself "accidentally" raped by him. She then goes into an obligatory spiel complaining about rape culture, as if this story wasn't intentionally written to be a rape fantasy for teenage girls to masturbate to. Same goes for the Handmaid's Tale and every other story about feminist women being raped by men; it's all barely concealed rape porn. This is what happens when you tell a fundamentally submissive, masochistic brain that they should be strong dominant: they will outwardly pretend to be strong and dominant but will inwardly fantasize about being dominated.