The other interesting side to this is that what men do fear is being *perceived* as a rapist. Male teachers will not remain alone in classrooms with students (male teachers have left the school system almost entirely), male nurses tend to have different, unobtrusively supervised duties, male joggers are avoiding places where they could be alone with females at night on a deserted path, male doctors have nurses/reception staff around at all times, male bosses leave the doors open during meetings.
This is such an interesting point, and I wonder if it's a recent thing, because the article I referred to in my entry was written years ago -- I'm thinking the 60s or 70s and GDit, but I'm annoyed that I don't have it to refer to -- and in it the author argued that men who don't rape actually gain something from the fact that other men do. She said that because women are afraid, they look to men to protect them, and men who are able to fill that protector role get a charge out of being the good guy. I'm not arguing that that's true now or even that it was then (mostly I'm just thinking out loud), but part of me does wonder if it may be something in our culture that's changed over time.
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Date: 2004-02-13 08:38 am (UTC)This is such an interesting point, and I wonder if it's a recent thing, because the article I referred to in my entry was written years ago -- I'm thinking the 60s or 70s and GDit, but I'm annoyed that I don't have it to refer to -- and in it the author argued that men who don't rape actually gain something from the fact that other men do. She said that because women are afraid, they look to men to protect them, and men who are able to fill that protector role get a charge out of being the good guy. I'm not arguing that that's true now or even that it was then (mostly I'm just thinking out loud), but part of me does wonder if it may be something in our culture that's changed over time.