I agree the model is overly simplistic (and I'll see if I can track down a better one)!
But I don't think that the category of Rapist only includes people who know damn well there's no consent. I'd like it to mean that eventually, but we're so far from consent culture at all in our society that I think it's totally possible -- easy, even -- for someone not to realize that they don't have their partner's consent. It's SHITTY. It's a problem. And it's also muddy.
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Date: 2014-07-11 05:36 pm (UTC)But I don't think that the category of Rapist only includes people who know damn well there's no consent. I'd like it to mean that eventually, but we're so far from consent culture at all in our society that I think it's totally possible -- easy, even -- for someone not to realize that they don't have their partner's consent. It's SHITTY. It's a problem. And it's also muddy.