Objectifying women

[Edwardo Piet]

Before I was married my best friend was a gay man. He was raped by a police officer (male). This was an act of power. Needless to say the crime went unreported. I suspect if gay rape is less common it's because it just isn't reported.

Hm. Interesting. Well said.

I also just thought that - perhaps it is also something to do with the fact that men are on average a bit physically stronger and so harder to overpower?

EDIT: Thought I'd also ask a question I just thought of....

One has to be sexually aroused in order to rape, right?

If rape is about power and not sex.... does this mean rapists are only and I repeat only turned on by the power aspect and are completely indifferent to appearance? And if they're completely indifferent to appearance and don't care about it at all then why don't all rapists rape both sexes and of any age?

As for all this "objectification" business.... how can you objectify something when something is by definition a thing and therefore an object already? You cannot objectify what is already an object. And someone, a person, is just a living thing, a living object, of the human species.

So yes women are objects, and so are men, and so is everything physical. Organisms are living things, animals are living things, people are animals and hence living things, and hence things.

EvF