Penises don't rape people, rapists do

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Penises don't rape people, rapists do
I read it in Judith Butler's 'Gender Woo'.

There were suggestions in another thread we are (i) poorly read and and (ii) obsessed with penises

So I read Judith Butler's "Who's Afraid of Gender" and was asked for a summary. That's probably the best bit, I've summarised for clarity and set it to a tune oc.

Has anyone else read it who would like to share their thoughts?

And what do all people with penises have in common? (Well unless you're Judith butler I guess)
if the issue was only the lack of penis, women would be committing rape with other parts of their body or with objects on a similar level to men. But they aren't. Explain that, Judy woo.

Well indeed to what end. Other than reinforcing the fact that a male who has had his penis removed is no less of a danger than the rest of his sex even if he can no longer rape according to U.K. law. The stats on violent and sexual offences are clear - whatever the ‘cause’ is, it’s vastly commoner in males than females and is undiminished by ‘transition’.

Somehow I don’t think Butler intended her word salad to mean we’re quite right to not want to give the small proportion of males who’ve ’surgically transitioned’ a pass into women’s spaces, but that’s a logical inference from it

@GallantKumquat Thanks very much for the clear and detailed summary.

I felt the same with the strawman and logical fallacies - especially as she's supposedly a philosopher and should do better.

Perhaps the most useful bit was she did at least note that the UK isn't the USA!

Even without knowing rape in the UK involves a penis this lot still doesn't make sense - it's illogical word salad.