tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7321349.post7912543054591983898..comments2024-03-18T22:21:33.261-07:00Comments on The Debate Link: It's All So ConfusingDavid Schraubhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04946653376744012423noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7321349.post-70843240662770485742009-03-30T15:54:00.000-07:002009-03-30T15:54:00.000-07:00Historical masculine "protection" of women meant p...<I>Historical masculine "protection" of women meant protecting their own exclusive rights to women, which, quite often, included their exclusive right to act violently against them -- through deprivation, through beatings, and through rape.</I><BR/><BR/>Exactly. If Rihanna had been getting menaced by another man and her boyfriend or husband had failed to stand up for her, the dynamic K.Lo's talking about (feminism has challenged the old idea that men are supposed to fight their women's battles against the outside world for them) might have some relevance. When Chris Brown is beating "his" woman, though, it's the old idea in play. K.Lo's apparently ignorant of the Feminism 101 idea that in a violent and patriarchal world, women make the rational choice to submit to one man instead of being prey to the depradations of all of them, and that the only way for this not to be a rational choice is for the world to be less violent and patriarchal.<BR/><BR/>Also, K.Lo's confusion of biological sex and sexual gender roles in her mini-disquisition on the <I>O</I> article is unsurprisingly but nonetheless dismaying.PGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09381347581328622706noreply@blogger.com