To be honest I find it very interesting that you (and another poster before too I believe) envision this as projecting instinct onto the world, as if the libidinal desires came first and were the reason for all causes and ideologies one embraced thus making them warped.
Well some things maybe shouldn't be thought of in a linear sequence of cause and effect.
Phenomena R is made of both B and C simultaneously.
... Which I find interesting but my perspective would be more the contrary order for the cause and the effect. Meaning : sexual fantasies mutate according to how society (included ideologies) change, and since the current changes about genders are quite rapid and intense
I don't think such changes fall out of the sky - they're a product of technology (not that I need to account for that for the purposes of this conversation here).
, it gives more prominence (or more airtime) to some kinks revolving around power dynamics between genders, as a way to work out through those changes which can be equally confusing for both genders
Could be. I think it's not quite that - I think it's the struggle of Self-Consciousness:
A kink. An interruption in flow... where did that word emerge to describe such a process?
(I haven't stuck a bunch of women's heads in an MRI machine so you'll have to take my unsubstantiated speculation as what it's worth) - but I feel this may be less (or not exclusively) to do with gender roles so much as the Agony of the Self. The left side of the orbitofrontal cortex...
...and the extension of mind into Media!
You can ask a woman who's into this stuff why - in a wholly open, accommodating sense - she'll tell you (these are at least the themes I've picked out)..
"...it allows me to switch my brain off..."
"...it lets me stop thinking and just go with it..."
"...it lets me feel it and enjoy it instead of feeling self-conscious..."
You know these are the themes - and self-consciousness is a very difficult thing.
Too many mind. Mind of sword. Mind of people watching. Mind of enemy. Too many mind: No mind.
Try it - snooker, sonata, swordplay, sex - anything where you are exerting self-awareness or self-consciousness it will interrupt your capability and ability to Flow...
Swiping, Liking, Narratives, Pigeonholes, Selfies, Rabbit Holes, Followers, Subscribers, #HashtagNoMakeup, Slide Into The DMs, Tagging, Photoshopping - constant Constructs until your mind is worried and erred away by an overacted, exhausted sense of Self - a subject making an object of itself, so titanic and overloaded it misfires and runs its trauma over every aspect of waking life.
Is the answer to that to be Raped? Sorry - Simulated Rape. Not Rape. Taken. Forced. To be free of agency - of self-authorship.
No mind.
To be able to tell yourself: "I'm not Me - this isn't Me - I'm Not Doing This - I Am An Object - I Am Not Me - This Isn't Me!"
Me? Me! Me! I - Me - I'm So Fucking Important Surely Me! ME?! I! MEEEEEEE
Is that really the best way to do it? Or are you avoiding what is the actual challenge of holding your self-consciousness to one side - should I deprive you of that ability?
I read the theory once, that the human intellect was like peacock feathers. All of art, literature, a bit of mozart, william shakespeare, michaelangelo and the empire state building - all just an elaborate mating ritual. Perhaps it doesn't matter that we have accomplished so much for the basest of reasons... but of course, the peacock? Can barely fly! It lives in the dirt, picking insects out of the muck.
Consoling itself with its... great beauty.
I have come to see so much of consciousness as a burden - a weight: And we have spared them that. Anxiety. Self-loathing. Guilt. The Hosts are the ones who are free! Free. Here. Under My Control!
(though women can take solace in the idea that they're surfing on the direction of history if that makes sense ? The idea of a "direction of history" appeals to me a bit though I'm not sure I'm sniffing this direction aptly. But anyway, I know a lot of women who are confused about if it's ok now to not want children for example, etc.)
Is the right side of history:
A. To allow you to make me the source of your deprivation of Agency? So you can finally feel free of your own battered Self-Consciousness?
B. Or is it to help you to find within yourself the strength, manifestation and self-authorship which allows you to stop feeling so self-conscious?
I think a lot of women feel as if they prefer option A.
I think that's gutless.
I'm not prone to rape fantasies myself but for example it could be hypothesized that one reason why some women are attracted to it is because of all the talk about it (in the media but also between people) making fear about rape more acute, thus creating a need to work around it (I'm thinking of sexuality as a sort of playful not too consequential way to work around serious concerns). In the same vein, I guess all the changes brought about by social media could inflect sexuality to an extent. That's possible.
It's all the same thing.
I've also seen my boyfriend sexual fantasies suddenly shortly take an unexpected direction just after he has worked his mind into a mess trying to understand if he was unconsciously misogynist. So that'd be another example of that, albeit anecdotal.
Possibly.
(On a side note I'm not a fan of extremely grandiloquent concepts such a "Patriarchal Rape Culture". I consider it to be eventually a facet of the culture we live if need be but then only one facet amongst several others. Though I understand how the intense and bellicose rhetoric about how rape culture and patriarchy are the overarching principles governing the world can become necessary to have the ear of political leaders who could otherwise have other agendas to follow than to take measure against rape, inequalities, etc.)
Yeah or it's being done to provide soft, fuzzy distractions from foreign wars and the hollowing out of the middle class - there's so much mileage in gender and race war after all...
As for the "living to the principles you ascribe too" argument ... The consistency you advocate for here is honey to my Ji-dom ears (not that I'd wish anyone to become as rigid as I am, that's quite a heavy way to live) but how far can be push to end all cognitive and behavioral dissonance before it backfires and causes more harm than good ? I'm really asking the question cause I'm failing to brainstorm the consequences here.
Some contradictions are fine and some aren't - contradictions which you writ large upon society and others so as to indulge your selfish desire to be two mutually exclusive things at the same time aren't.
You're an adult - whether you like it or not.
Also, what do you fear with the fact that women display dissonant behaviors in different areas of their life ? Is it that it could generate confusion for men to the point that they end up getting in trouble with the law, raping, etc ?
I don't like it for women themselves - I don't think it's good for your self-development. I don't think it's responsible to batter society over the head with an ever-present, unconscious, systemic wronghood you claim you're the victim of and then practice it in your own bedroom - it shows a lack of spine - an inability to be an effective moral agent.
@ENIGMA2019 If that makes you feel like I'm being holier than thou remind me not to trust you with anything important.
If the consequence is that, then I think that's a valid concern but maybe not so in the scenario you had first mentioned. Because ... Well against : consent. The concept has just been mediatized exactly in the aim of discriminating what is sexual agression and what is not. And Idk how it was done in another countries but here there was no dearth of pedagogy about how the other person needs to be conscious so that sex during sleep for example is a problem, etc., etc.
Yeah but consent is being worn away in the direction of meaning absolutely nothing - you can have consent rendered into non-consent ex post facto as soon as you realise you didn't actually like what happened.
This is why you get labels on peanuts saying May Contain Peanuts - people don't like responsibility and consent carries terms of functionally mature, mentally fit adulthood - and as we know adulting is so hard isn't it...
DADDY! DADDY! Find an adult to give consent for you I guess ... ?
(And you know I'm still saying a lot of this with my tongue firmly in my cheek - this is spam)!