Well of course they can't!

[denny]

Just heard one of the girls in my office arguing with two of the guys that "A girl can't rape a man! If they're, you know, up, then it's not rape is it, if they're enjoying it?"

Not sure whether this should be filed under Helen's 'sexism: every little counts' tag or not...

Comments

[dennyd.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure if it's sexist, in that the equal and opposite attitude also exists - "if she's physically aroused then she's consenting". If it works for either gender then I'm not sure it's sexist.

OTOH, I think it's one of the few things like that which is considered more 'self-evident' when applied to men than to women, which I why I considered tagging it thusly.

[easternpromise.livejournal.com]

I don't think the sexism is based on sexual arousal, it's based on the way in which said sexual arousal is manifested which is markedly different between men and women (unless I have got things very wrong somewhere along the line).

It's very comprehensible to society that a woman can be raped because, y'know, there's a hole there and things go in the hole and if the woman said no then things should not have gone there and that's rape.

A man being raped by a man is comprehensible for the same reason, but a man being raped by a woman isn't. Because how could a man *possibly* be forced by a woman to have sex against his will? (according to society anyway).