Akon seems to be assuming that a male cannot possibly initiate sex, in this sentence:
I can’t imagine how boring your sex lives must have been up until then—flirting with a woman, teasing her, leading her on, knowing the whole time that you were perfectly safe because she couldn’t take matters into her own hands if you went a little too far -
That suggests some sort of genetic editing. Perhaps they’ve left the male sex drive in place, so ‘rape’ is not actually going to be very unpleasant, but given the females a perfect defense, or a consciously-controlled pheromone that must be on for the male to get an erection, or something of this nature.
What happened was genetic egalitarianism. Women are now just as strong as men, and have the same drives and urges as men, and are every bit the rapist as men. And men are now every bit the tease as women were… the scales are now even. And the physical consequences are meaningless. There’s no longer any threat of unwanted disease or pregnancy or even injury. There’s no reason to be mentally scarred by the action because this humanity knows better.
...so why was it illegal? It doesn’t hurt anyone. In their age.
But the elders remember the hurt. And they screamed their rage and the history of profanity.
Rape is performed by an individual, not by a class. Does this society not only have the women as strong as the men, but also every individual person as strong as every other individual person? (And for that matter, as powerful as every other individual person—for instance, none are employers, rich people, or law enforcement.)
No, it’s just that none of that really matters now, since rape has as much physical or mental consequence in this world as a high-five. They live in a world that went from joking about rape on 4chan to joking about it in the boardroom because everyone was 4chan.
Then what did you mean when you explained it away by saying that “Women are now just as strong as men”? If rape doesn’t matter because it causes no harm anyway, it shouldn’t matter whether one group is more capable of doing it than another;
Akon seems to be assuming that a male cannot possibly initiate sex, in this sentence:
That suggests some sort of genetic editing. Perhaps they’ve left the male sex drive in place, so ‘rape’ is not actually going to be very unpleasant, but given the females a perfect defense, or a consciously-controlled pheromone that must be on for the male to get an erection, or something of this nature.
What happened was genetic egalitarianism. Women are now just as strong as men, and have the same drives and urges as men, and are every bit the rapist as men. And men are now every bit the tease as women were… the scales are now even. And the physical consequences are meaningless. There’s no longer any threat of unwanted disease or pregnancy or even injury. There’s no reason to be mentally scarred by the action because this humanity knows better.
...so why was it illegal? It doesn’t hurt anyone. In their age.
But the elders remember the hurt. And they screamed their rage and the history of profanity.
Rape is performed by an individual, not by a class. Does this society not only have the women as strong as the men, but also every individual person as strong as every other individual person? (And for that matter, as powerful as every other individual person—for instance, none are employers, rich people, or law enforcement.)
No, it’s just that none of that really matters now, since rape has as much physical or mental consequence in this world as a high-five. They live in a world that went from joking about rape on 4chan to joking about it in the boardroom because everyone was 4chan.
Then what did you mean when you explained it away by saying that “Women are now just as strong as men”? If rape doesn’t matter because it causes no harm anyway, it shouldn’t matter whether one group is more capable of doing it than another;