“Rape is about power, not sex” works on an equivocation on the meaning of “about”
Motte: “about” = “most morally salient aspect”
Bailey: “about” = “motivation”
How many asexuals have committed this crime, I wonder.
A fair number, I would guess. Your superiors and squadmates in the dictator’s suppression force don’t really care about your personal sexual quirks.
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That said –
The standard feminist talking point isn’t wrong, as far as it goes, given a certain (reasonable and useful) construction of what it means for something to be “about sex.”
The important thing is that, using that construction, consensual sex also usually isn’t about sex.
