"Rage wanking" as remote rape

[bd67th]

The context is this rather disturbing photo where a man has loaded a photo of a woman onto his phone and ejaculated onto said phone with the caption "This is your true purpose." The "crime" of the woman in question appears to be supporting the campaign to repeal the eighth amendment.

At first, I thought "ew, I wouldn't want to work at the phone shop when he takes that in for repair". Then I felt really quite disturbed, so I had a think about why.

I'm reading his defacement of her image with his semen as an attempt to degrade her. He can't degrade her in person through rape, so he defaces her photo with his semen and shows her (by publishing the photos) that he has done it. I think this could be called "rage wanking", because he didn't do it for sexual pleasure, he did it to degrade her, and it's on a continuum of "penis as weapon" male violence against women with rape at the severest end and "choke on my dick" at the least-severe end.

AIBU with my analysis? And AIBU in thinking this man would try to rape the woman if he had access to her? My gut feeling is that he would try it.

Yes remember that’s horrendous.

It’s kind of what I meant re the issue not being just about whether this man has a realistic prospect of accessing vonny IRL.

I mean I think it’s bad enough just on it’s own BUT this man is surrounded by other women who are not vonny every day...

I simply do not think it is true to say he poses no risk to them.

@rememberthetime it's one step away from doing it in person

Yes! That's what I'm trying to convey. That the tweeted example (which I wish I'd screencapped for further analysis as the tweet has gone) was him using her picture as a proxy or substitute for her body.

you deserve better.

I agree with your post op but I haven't clicked on the link - does it show the image? Given how you feel about it I can't fathom why you would share the link which only bumps up the potential viewing figures and will bolster his smugness in having shared it.

He didn’t share it, vonny did, to expose him. He was very angry about her exposing his vile DMs.

Ah. I misunderstood.

The tweet has been removed. I don't know why. Possibly it was reported? Or Vonny herself removed as is her right.

D'oh. bd already said that.

@loraline, if it had been shared by anyone other than the victim, I'd have been hammering the report button to get it removed, not doing a feminist analysis of it in public.

@offred: "if you're ashamed of it, don't say it" --Danny, Brassed Off (the play)

I would say that this particular man may as well have written NOT SAFE TO BE AROUND, WOMEN AVOID on his own forehead in indelible ink.

Thoroughly agreed.

'Rage wanking' is a good enough term. Hopefully some of these rage wankers will suffer a heart attack while doing it, all that anger and rage might just trigger it.

I find it staggering that this type of online behaviour can't be persued by the police as 'malicious intent'. As that is exactly what that is.
I am however aware through my own experience that Twitter have more power than the police and they decide whether or not (and mostly decide to not!) release a perpetrator's IP address. Rendering the police and the victims of this behaviour utterly powerless to fight back, get justice. So it in effect becomes a double assault of sorts.