"How can rape be about power when it is forced sex? There must be lust there."
Will left-ies on Tumblr ever stop spewing right wing rhetoric?
Yes, there can be lust involved, so can pride or boredom or just about anything else. But rape is still about power. And the people who get raped must often are the ones with the least power. Children, the elderly, the disabled, the imprisoned, and the occupied are all groups commonly targeted.
By saying that rape is itself about lust, you are at best saying that we should focus on the most conventionally attractive, and often more privileged, victims over the rest.
And at worse you are saying that some people are too ugly to have been raped.
People saying that there must be lust involved in rape plays into the dismissal of victims because "you're too ugly to rape"
It also plays into "well he couldn't help himself"


















