re: #88 The Ghost of Senator Incitatus

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I find this observation interesting, because it harmonizes with a long-standing observation I have about US “conservatism”: that it doesn’t care about consent, or simply doesn’t understand the concept.

It’s the basis of their whole understanding of the unified depravity of “bad” sexuality, but it’s also their out whenever one of them does something ugly.

The foundation of their belief system is that a man is the only party whose consent matters. Thus spousal rape is a myth because marriage vows = consent, date rape also being a myth because “real” rape involves violence, and the idea that the vast majority of accusations of rape where one or both parties are white are “false” because the woman “cried rape” to avoid social stigma of having per-marital sex.