| Mr Khan said: "Legitimate Rape" is a thing, sadly, and that makes this whole thing much more sordid when you analyze his language. "Legitimate Rape" means what we all think of when you hear "rape," which is a woman alone in a dark alley, suddenly jumped by thugs (that she doesn't know) who have their way with her, which is a very small percentage of all rape "Illegitimate rape" is an inherently anti-feminist term, because that's the majority of rape, the kind of thing where you're with a girl and you think she's sending out signals but ultimately she doesn't want it, but you have sex with her anyway. That's the bulk of rape, and you can see with this terminology that this is considered by many to be "less" of a crime. What this man is postulating is that the distress of a "stranger-assault" rape causes women to shut down their receptivity, which isn't how it works at all. |
Unless he specified exactly what he meant you might be reading a bit too much into it, because there are a lot of bullshit definitions of rape. For instance, two people get totally trashed and have sex. The girl wakes up and regrets it. Boom, "rape". Why isn't she also a rapist if the man was drunk, too?
But a lot of people have a lot of weird opinions on rape, like when the Hollywood community rallied around Roman Polanski and Whoopi Goldberg (whose feminist credentials I'd normally never question) said something to the effect of it wasn't "rape rape". So who knows?
Regardless, this sounds like the definition of an unforced error and also like a biologically crackpot theory from the anti-abortion crowd (although I'm not a gynebiocologist or anything).
