Oh, very likely, but Clarity claimed that people were libelling Roosh for proposing to legalize rape when actually he’s just proposing, er, to legalize rape. My bemusement at this has basically nothing to do with how sincere Roosh is or what ulterior motives he may have for proposing to legalize rape.
(Unless his proposal is so obviously not intended to be taken seriously that the objection should be not “he wants to legalize rape” but something more like “he thinks legalizing rape is a reasonable thing to propose as a joke”, I guess.)
Oh, very likely, but Clarity claimed that people were libelling Roosh for proposing to legalize rape when actually he’s just proposing, er, to legalize rape.
I agree with this framing for this specific case, but I do want to point out that there are huge noncentral fallacy issues with this framing in general; if I say “hey, we should add an age difference exemption to all the statutory rape laws that don’t have one yet” that would be arguing for legalizing some rapes (because it involves redefining rape).
(The steelman of Roosh is basically arguing that, instead of changing campus culture to reflect the law, we should change the law to reflect campus culture. So it’s certainly skeevy enough that “legalizing rape” has fair connotations, and that’s even before one drops out of the steelman lens and into the literal lens.)
Yup, I agree. That’s why I remarked that I think a large majority of rapes fall into the category he’s proposing should be legal, even if you adopt a relatively narrow definition of rape.
Of course, I could be wrong. (And I could have said more explicitly that “legalize some instances of X” is by no means always fairly summarized as “legalize X”.)
His overall point is that the current memes circulating in the general public on the topic of rape are ineffective at handling the issue, and furthermore that they’re so ineffective that getting rid of them altogether and doing something as extreme as legalizing rape on private property would actually lead to a better aggregate outcome for not only men but also women.
At least that’s my interpretation.
Note that Roosh writes a lot of satirical essays that are supposed to systematically introduce various details that he thinks are important while suggesting a general conclusion. This I think is a common tactic for people who write on controversial topics or have a lot to allude to and brainstorm about but don’t have a fully fleshed out conclusion to simply state directly.
Here is another example of his non-literal exposition style.
The idea of how the law is supposed to benefit woman is by making woman so fearful of getting raped that they don’t go home with a boy after a club night.
It’s that woman are too promiscuous and have to be forced by fear to to less promiscuous. It’s an ugly argument.
That’s his PR strategy, for sure. He wouldn’t be nearly as popular if he wrote rigorously thought-out expositions using neutral language and containing a lot of qualifiers to make sure nobody thinks he’s a bad person.
While I think part of his mission puts being famous and notorious as an end in and of itself, I don’t think we should assume he’s not also genuinely motivated by an attempt to disseminate information that he believes is important. For a brief attempt to translate the overall point of his article on legalizing rape into language that’s more literal, see this post I just submitted elsewhere in this thread.
I’m not particularly interested in reading it; he’s neither my ally nor my enemy, and I find neither what he says, nor how he says it, particularly entertaining or useful. I’d guess it’s something along the idea that “Removing safety rails make people behave more safety-consciously”, or consideration of its converse, “Safety rails make people behave less safety-consciously”. Which is true, but… premature. Society isn’t there quite yet. We have at least another decade, although things are accelerating a bit, so it’s hard to pin down a time.
Shrug I encountered exposure to his ideas back when I read Captain Capitalism, before that blog turned into yet another outlet for the backlash against the constant overreach of social justice types. I find him… unnecessary.
No need to read it. I don’t think Roosh is very good. For me reading him even for a few minutes feels like akrasia. I guess I’m more entertained by the style than you are, but entertainment is different than education. My priority is the latter.
For reference, it’s not just the safety-rail consideration, though that’s relevant too. It’s also that the current cultural landscape removes personal responsibility in many cases. Women will sometimes regret having sex the same way anyone may regret eating a cookie (they felt good then, but feel bad now). While no man would be proud of being the sexual equivalent of junk food during a one-night stand with a woman, I think today’s society is a bit trigger happy in such situations in saying the man took advantage of the woman instead of saying that she indulged in the moment and later thought herself hedonistic.
Making rape legal on private property would be the most extreme version of expecting personal responsibility from women. It certainly goes (way) too far, but within the fog of satire I believe Roosh has a point. Though, again, I wouldn’t recommend his writing to someone looking for thoughtfulness or rigor.
rape is a serious accusation and all though some women may feel the way you described/misuse the legal system… I doubt that it’s a common occurrence, most women are ashamed to admit they’ve been raped...don’t think many would put themselves through the stress of it willy nilly.
Haven’t read the article, but even if the idea of legalizing rape on private property is looked at as sincere for even a second… it falls flat on its face. Marital rape is a thing that happens, seems likely this legalization would condone it. And so long as we’re talking about responsibility, it would be the responsibility of the owners of properties legally raping people to put up a sign saying as much..kinda like the beware of angry dog ones...except about rape...which I don’t think would catch on.
I assume the “it’s not rape if she liked it” argument refers to circumstances where the woman doesn’t consent to the sexual encounter, but then changes her mind part of the way through. In other words, we’re talking about a shift from “don’t want” (when the sex started) to “want” (before the sex is over), and describing the general result as “she liked it”. It would be more precise, of course, to phrase it as, “She didn’t like it and then she did like it.”
Now, which part of my post were you saying fit that argument?
It’s also that the current cultural landscape removes personal responsibility in many cases. Women will sometimes regret having sex the same way anyone may regret eating a cookie (they felt good then, but feel bad now). While no man would be proud of being the sexual equivalent of junk food during a one-night stand with a woman, I think today’s society is a bit trigger happy in such situations in saying the man took advantage of the woman instead of saying that she indulged in the moment and later thought herself hedonistic.
I assume you meant this part.
With the considerations above in mind, I don’t see how my point fits the “it’s not rape if she liked it” argument. While that argument refers to situations where the woman felt averse to sex but then changed her mind part of the way through (with no specification about how she felt afterwards, the following day, and so on); on the other hand my example refers to situations where the woman wanted the sex both during the initial escalation and throughout the entire act (but then felt regret later on).
Let me know if I misinterpreted you.
rape is a serious accusation and all though some women may feel the way you described/misuse the legal system… I doubt that it’s a common occurrence, most women are ashamed to admit they’ve been raped...don’t think many would put themselves through the stress of it willy nilly.
I’m under the impression that when alcohol is involved the average person is more likely to use the words “taken advantage of” than “raped” unless the woman is passed out.
I wasn’t necessarily referring to misusing the legal system, though that’s probably an issue in certain isolated cases. My concern, instead, is that Western culture at this time in history seems to allow women an escape route from admitting personal responsibility for certain actions.
Women may not be flocking to the justice system, but there’s certainly a trend where female sexual hedonism is blamed on the men who take up the offers.
Haven’t read the article, but even if the idea of legalizing rape on private property is looked at as sincere for even a second… it falls flat on its face. Marital rape is a thing that happens, seems likely this legalization would condone it. And so long as we’re talking about responsibility, it would be the responsibility of the owners of properties legally raping people to put up a sign saying as much..kinda like the beware of angry dog ones...except about rape...which I don’t think would catch on.
It was a satirical article and Roosh has no intention of trying to legalize rape on private property. I don’t necessarily suggest reading the article, as it’s long and liable for misinterpretation from anyone unfamiliar with the PUA community, but if you want to criticize his reasoning in a disciplined and responsible manner then you’re going to have to take the plunge.
If you do decide to read the article, feel free to post in this sub-thread any counterarguments you come up with.
The proposal has nothing to do with that. This is Roosh’s real proposal: “Pay more attention to me! I’m still edgy and obscene and dangerous!”
And it’s working.
Oh, very likely, but Clarity claimed that people were libelling Roosh for proposing to legalize rape when actually he’s just proposing, er, to legalize rape. My bemusement at this has basically nothing to do with how sincere Roosh is or what ulterior motives he may have for proposing to legalize rape.
(Unless his proposal is so obviously not intended to be taken seriously that the objection should be not “he wants to legalize rape” but something more like “he thinks legalizing rape is a reasonable thing to propose as a joke”, I guess.)
I agree with this framing for this specific case, but I do want to point out that there are huge noncentral fallacy issues with this framing in general; if I say “hey, we should add an age difference exemption to all the statutory rape laws that don’t have one yet” that would be arguing for legalizing some rapes (because it involves redefining rape).
(The steelman of Roosh is basically arguing that, instead of changing campus culture to reflect the law, we should change the law to reflect campus culture. So it’s certainly skeevy enough that “legalizing rape” has fair connotations, and that’s even before one drops out of the steelman lens and into the literal lens.)
Yup, I agree. That’s why I remarked that I think a large majority of rapes fall into the category he’s proposing should be legal, even if you adopt a relatively narrow definition of rape.
Of course, I could be wrong. (And I could have said more explicitly that “legalize some instances of X” is by no means always fairly summarized as “legalize X”.)
His overall point is that the current memes circulating in the general public on the topic of rape are ineffective at handling the issue, and furthermore that they’re so ineffective that getting rid of them altogether and doing something as extreme as legalizing rape on private property would actually lead to a better aggregate outcome for not only men but also women.
At least that’s my interpretation.
Note that Roosh writes a lot of satirical essays that are supposed to systematically introduce various details that he thinks are important while suggesting a general conclusion. This I think is a common tactic for people who write on controversial topics or have a lot to allude to and brainstorm about but don’t have a fully fleshed out conclusion to simply state directly.
Here is another example of his non-literal exposition style.
The idea of how the law is supposed to benefit woman is by making woman so fearful of getting raped that they don’t go home with a boy after a club night.
It’s that woman are too promiscuous and have to be forced by fear to to less promiscuous. It’s an ugly argument.
You’re taking it too literally. See here for a better explanation of what Roosh means.
That’s his PR strategy, for sure. He wouldn’t be nearly as popular if he wrote rigorously thought-out expositions using neutral language and containing a lot of qualifiers to make sure nobody thinks he’s a bad person.
While I think part of his mission puts being famous and notorious as an end in and of itself, I don’t think we should assume he’s not also genuinely motivated by an attempt to disseminate information that he believes is important. For a brief attempt to translate the overall point of his article on legalizing rape into language that’s more literal, see this post I just submitted elsewhere in this thread.
I’m not particularly interested in reading it; he’s neither my ally nor my enemy, and I find neither what he says, nor how he says it, particularly entertaining or useful. I’d guess it’s something along the idea that “Removing safety rails make people behave more safety-consciously”, or consideration of its converse, “Safety rails make people behave less safety-consciously”. Which is true, but… premature. Society isn’t there quite yet. We have at least another decade, although things are accelerating a bit, so it’s hard to pin down a time.
Shrug I encountered exposure to his ideas back when I read Captain Capitalism, before that blog turned into yet another outlet for the backlash against the constant overreach of social justice types. I find him… unnecessary.
ETA: Ugh. I regret having participated in this.
No need to read it. I don’t think Roosh is very good. For me reading him even for a few minutes feels like akrasia. I guess I’m more entertained by the style than you are, but entertainment is different than education. My priority is the latter.
For reference, it’s not just the safety-rail consideration, though that’s relevant too. It’s also that the current cultural landscape removes personal responsibility in many cases. Women will sometimes regret having sex the same way anyone may regret eating a cookie (they felt good then, but feel bad now). While no man would be proud of being the sexual equivalent of junk food during a one-night stand with a woman, I think today’s society is a bit trigger happy in such situations in saying the man took advantage of the woman instead of saying that she indulged in the moment and later thought herself hedonistic.
Making rape legal on private property would be the most extreme version of expecting personal responsibility from women. It certainly goes (way) too far, but within the fog of satire I believe Roosh has a point. Though, again, I wouldn’t recommend his writing to someone looking for thoughtfulness or rigor.
Ahh..the: it’s not rape if she liked it argument!
rape is a serious accusation and all though some women may feel the way you described/misuse the legal system… I doubt that it’s a common occurrence, most women are ashamed to admit they’ve been raped...don’t think many would put themselves through the stress of it willy nilly.
Haven’t read the article, but even if the idea of legalizing rape on private property is looked at as sincere for even a second… it falls flat on its face. Marital rape is a thing that happens, seems likely this legalization would condone it. And so long as we’re talking about responsibility, it would be the responsibility of the owners of properties legally raping people to put up a sign saying as much..kinda like the beware of angry dog ones...except about rape...which I don’t think would catch on.
I assume the “it’s not rape if she liked it” argument refers to circumstances where the woman doesn’t consent to the sexual encounter, but then changes her mind part of the way through. In other words, we’re talking about a shift from “don’t want” (when the sex started) to “want” (before the sex is over), and describing the general result as “she liked it”. It would be more precise, of course, to phrase it as, “She didn’t like it and then she did like it.”
Now, which part of my post were you saying fit that argument?
I assume you meant this part.
With the considerations above in mind, I don’t see how my point fits the “it’s not rape if she liked it” argument. While that argument refers to situations where the woman felt averse to sex but then changed her mind part of the way through (with no specification about how she felt afterwards, the following day, and so on); on the other hand my example refers to situations where the woman wanted the sex both during the initial escalation and throughout the entire act (but then felt regret later on).
Let me know if I misinterpreted you.
I’m under the impression that when alcohol is involved the average person is more likely to use the words “taken advantage of” than “raped” unless the woman is passed out.
I wasn’t necessarily referring to misusing the legal system, though that’s probably an issue in certain isolated cases. My concern, instead, is that Western culture at this time in history seems to allow women an escape route from admitting personal responsibility for certain actions.
Women may not be flocking to the justice system, but there’s certainly a trend where female sexual hedonism is blamed on the men who take up the offers.
It was a satirical article and Roosh has no intention of trying to legalize rape on private property. I don’t necessarily suggest reading the article, as it’s long and liable for misinterpretation from anyone unfamiliar with the PUA community, but if you want to criticize his reasoning in a disciplined and responsible manner then you’re going to have to take the plunge.
If you do decide to read the article, feel free to post in this sub-thread any counterarguments you come up with.