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17081937 No.17081937 [Reply] [Original]

So if I get it right, she enjoyed being raped by Howard? Hell I'm not reading more of this shit. This is disgusting.

>> No.17081944

>>17081937

I used to browse in a comfy bookstore with a clerk grad student who would mansplain to the female junior clerk about how he finally got round to reading that "gross" Ayn Rand, and the rape scene. He was clearly busting a move.

>> No.17081950

>>17081944
sounds like a fake story to me

>> No.17082122

>>17081937
>She denied that what happened in the finished novel was actually rape, referring to it as "rape by engraved invitation".[106] She said Dominique wanted and "all but invited" the act, citing, among other things, a passage where Dominique scratches a marble slab in her bedroom to invite Roark to repair it.[113] A true rape, Rand said, would be "a dreadful crime".[114]

Defenders of the novel have agreed with this interpretation. In an essay specifically explaining this scene, Andrew Bernstein wrote that although much "confusion" exists about it, the descriptions in the novel provide "conclusive" evidence of Dominique's strong attraction to Roark and her desire to have sex with him.[115]

Individualist feminist Wendy McElroy said that while Dominique is "thoroughly taken", there is nonetheless "clear indication" that Dominique both gave consent for and enjoyed the experience.[116] Both Bernstein and McElroy saw the interpretations of feminists such as Brownmiller as based in a false understanding of sexuality.

>> No.17082280

>>17081937
This is what women want, OP. You're disgusting for being so misogynistic.

>> No.17082286

imagine how big a fag you gotta be to write an essay from any angle on an ayn rand rape scene