re: #178 iceweasel

Just make comments that make it clear that you’re mocking Rand’s excessively warped notions of sex, and not ones that carry the implication that Rand should be raped or that anyone else fantasizes about raping her.
I’d also rather we stuck to either 1) what rand wrote, and 2)where relevant her actual relationships with men —-and we don’t speculate on what Rand’s fantasies were.
/removes feminist boots, for the moment.

Well it is part of what Rand wrote, I mean there’s that scene in the Fountainhead for starters….

And then there’s this….

“Rape is an integral and necessary expression of human nature. Sexual assaults have been present in every society since the dawn of time. It is the drive of man to reproduce, to compete successfully for advantage on the battlefield of life and evolution. In fact, it is this very competition to reproduce that motivates man to do anything productive and worthwhile in the first place. It is this competition that motivates man to aspire to greatness. Can you imagine men striving for greatness were they not motivated by their drive to reproduce by any means? Of course not, because the drive to reproduce is at the very core of mankind’s essence! As long as we disregard silly ‘god’ superstitions and recognize that a man is ultimately responsible to and for himself, we therefore recognize that any measures that attempt to stifle this natural and inherent drive to reproduce by any means are inherently wrong. To stifle sexual assaults is the perverse anti-human dream of the superstitious or a bloated priestly class, or the self-promoted intelligentsia, which of course is both of these at the same time. In fact, no human society has successfully eliminated rape, despite myriad measures designed to curb sexual assaults. If man were only truly free to pursue this integral part of his nature we would walk as the masters of the Earth that we are!”