retiredfrank wrote:
I'm going to be the skunk at the party here. From an evolutionary point of view, it makes sense for all men to be instinctual rapists, since mass rape in the aftermath of defeating an enemy is the single most important way for a man to widely spread his genes. This assumes rape propensity can be genetically encoded so as to be instinctual, and I believe it can be, by simply tying sexual arousal to violence, which can easily be done at the biological level. This evolutionary argument holds even if you believe, like Adama, that the earth was created 6000 years ago, since there have been plenty of mass rapes in the aftermath of enemy defeat in the past 6000 years. Indeed, the bible is a wonderful documentation of such mass rapes. Men who are NOT turned on sexually by rape and other mixtures of sex with violence, would have long since been weeded out of the gene pool in favor of men who are.
However, we are not dumb animals who must blindly follow our instincts. My instinct is to overeat at every opportunity, and I resist that instinct, to the point of losing touch with my appetite to some extent and thus losing some capacity for enjoying food. Destroying a piece of my instinctual self is a form of suicide, but it's for a higher cause (namely, keeping me from turning into a disgusting fat slob) and thus a worthwhile trade-off.
Similarly, suppressing my natural rape instinct to the point of denying myself even fantasies about rape, has probably destroyed some of my capacity for sexual pleasure. But this loss is compensated for by protecting me from a long stint in "Stony Lonesome", where I'm told neither the guards nor the other inmates look kindly on convicted sex criminals.
As for RooshV, once again, he displays a fine ability to push people's buttons and get free publicity through controversy, and damn the long-term consequences. "Attention whoring" he calls that when women do it.
Reprobate. Nope. Most of the men who are rapists are just plain sociopaths. People say that anyone can commit rape or murder and I don't believe that. I believe the people out there who are rapists and murderers are sociopaths, for the most part, and spiritually beyond redemption, the vast vast majority of them. So it isn't like a normal man is just going to turn into a rapist because evolution. They are rapists because they were already sociopaths, and sociopaths can justify rape and mass murder, with things such as evolution, survival of the fittest and other false doctrines of science (haha).
There is no instinct to rape. Rape is not a natural instinct. Like murder, it is an indulgence for sociopaths. Just like not every woman could become a street walking prostitute. Some women can, others can't. It is a matter of their psyche, personality, soul. It isn't really something normal people can pick up and decide to do even if the situation calls for it. Because it is not normal or instinctual.
This is what happens when you don't believe there is a soul or a God. You believe that rape is just because men were biologically programmed to rape. I couldn't imagine a better justification for locking every biological male in a cage at birth, seeing as each one is a rapist waiting for the right circumstance. And they say the MGTOW aren't feminists.
As for me personally, I have no desire to rape and therefore no fantasies to suppress. Oh my, reprobate!
A good man is above pettiness. He is better than that.
