One particular ideology of leftism that I'm pretty sure I'm getting wrong, rape mention
Hey is it true that maoists believe that all sex is inherently coercive and therefore rape? I remember hearing that at some point in a discussion of whether or not currently against the leftist ideals. I'm pretty sure it's a stereotype, but if so where did it come from?
political ideology, rape mention
@Anarchist_Mallrat Hi, I don't know very much about Maoism but I can talk about the whole sex = coercive thing!
It's built off of a very convoluted idea: Modern society has baked-in power imbalances. Therefore, everyone is in some way affected by those imbalances. Sex built off of imbalanced power dynamics is coercive, and all humans experience imbalanced power dynamics, therefore all sex is coercive!
...except that's not how coercion works, so it's nonsense.
political ideology, rape mention
@Anarchist_Mallrat Yup. It assumes that you, as a living breathing human being with your own free will, is incapable of giving "real" consent if you are under literally any societal influence.
The often-ignored other side of the equation is that if you genuinely believe that society makes all sex coercive, the act of NOT having sex does not magically remove you from society. You're not "more pure," you're just celibate.
political ideology, rape mention
@Anarchist_Mallrat This is getting very rant-y and explain-y on my part so I'll just say that you're chill, everyone is chill, and sex is chill, so just vibe out and do your own thing without worrying too much about it.
Economic preference cannot and will not make you a rapist.
political ideology, rape mention
@Anarchist_Mallrat But maoism— at least from a leftist economic perspective— has very little to do with the politics of sex and a lot more to do with the way Mao incorporated various economic ideologies into his own.
tl;dr you're getting the facts about Mao banning premarital sex and very modern sex-negative TERF nonsense mixed together.
political ideology, rape mention
@RowanBerry yeah as a person very involved in her local kink scene, it comes off as puritanical nonsense.