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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsA Fan Letter to Certain Conservative Politicians
http://whatever.scalzi.com/2012/10/25/a-fan-letter-to-certain-conservative-politicians/>>>snip
Hi! Im a rapist. Im one of those men who likes to force myself on women without their consent or desire and then batter them sexually. The details of how I do this are not particularly important at the moment although I love when you try to make distinctions about forcible rape or legitimate rape because that gives me all sorts of wiggle room but I will tell you one of the details about why I do it: I like to control women and, also and independently, I like to remind them how little control they have. Theres just something about making the point to a woman that her consent and her control of her own body is not relevant against the need for a man to possess that body and control it that just plain gets me off. A guys got needs, you know? And my need is for control. Sweet, sweet control.
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Now, remember how I said the thing I really like about raping a woman is the control it gives me over her? Well, getting a woman pregnant is even better. Because long after Im gone, she still has to deal with me and what Ive done to her. She has to deal with whats happening to her body. She has to deal with doctor visits. She has to deal with the choice whether to have an abortion or not which means she has to deal with everyone in the country, including you, having an opinion about it and giving her crap about it. And if she does have an abortion, she has to deal with all the hassle of that, too, because folks like you, of course, have gone out of your way to make it a hassle, which I appreciate. Thank you.
Every moment of that process, she has to be thinking of me, and how Ive forced all of this on her exercised my ability to bend her life away from what it was to what Ive made of it. Me exercising my control.
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Once the babys born, the woman will have to decide whether to keep it. Heres an interesting fact: Of the women who have gotten pregnant from rape who give birth to that baby, most keep the baby, by a ratio of about five to one. So my ability to change the life of the woman just keeps growing, doesnt it? From the rape, to the nine months of the pregnancy, to the rest of her life dealing with the child I raped into her. Of course, she could put the kid up for adoption, but thats its own bundle of issues, isnt it? And even then, shes dealing with the choices I made for her, when I exercised my control over her life.
Best of all, I get to do all that without much consequence! Oh, sure, theoretically I can get charged with rape and go to prison for it. But you know what? For every hundred men who rape, only three go to prison. Those are pretty good odds for me, especially since again! folks like you like to muddy up the issue saying things like forcible rape. Keep doing that! Its working out great for me.
As for the kid, well, oddly enough, most women I rape want nothing to do with me afterward, so its not like I will have to worry about child support or any other sort of responsibility unless of course I decide that I havent taught that woman a big enough lesson about whos really in control of her life. Did you know that 31 states in this country dont keep rapists from seeking custody or visitation rights? How great is that? Thats just one more thing she has to worry about me crawling out of the woodwork to remind her of what I did, and am continuing to do, to her life
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