Last one. Neat article. But...feminism-as-politics has too much shaped her view of rape. I wonder how to study it honestly, without the skein of politics. The idea that rape is about violence, not sex, is...inherently flawed. It posits that someone can be so selfish as to not care about damaging you for a lifetime, and yet, so other-focused that they are intentionally doing so to damage you. It's a huge cause of cognitive dissonance and I feel, harms people who have been assaulted, as a result. At least she didn't randomly flip back and forth between stranger-rape and acquaintance-rape like they're the same subject or that conflating the two is not intellectually dishonest. So many people work so hard to be experts...

I think she has a lot of valid points. I just don't think...the instance of someone 'accidentally' raping someone, because they didn't get the social/emotional cues exactly explains the 95-98% of rapes that are not done by a stranger.

K.