Men’s sexuality, absent civilizational constraint, is naturally aggressive and promiscuous. These men laughing at a woman’s “taco”, grabbing ass, and doing pelvic-thrusts, are acting out their natural sexuality.
At one point in our society, this would have been unacceptable behaviour. Under the old order, lovingly referred to as the patriarchy, but probably more accurately referred to as civilization, civility towards woman was standard; it was called chivalry.
Men raised under this order would have been loath to issue even a mild oath in the presence of a woman, let alone crassly harass a woman over her “tacos”. Had a man been uncivilized enough to harass a woman in such a way, he would have suffered immediate consequences in the form of violence from other honourable men, and more permanent consequences from a loss of social status.
The particular form of pornography marketed to women celebrates rape, or even better, rape transfigured into unrape because the heroine secretly longed for the anti-hero. In contrast, patriarchy is boring and predictable. There are potatoes and diapers and funerals. What honest woman wants to deal with that?
To test this hypothesis, I downloaded a random manga marketed as Romance, target audience female.
Princesses kingdom defeated: Arranged marriage ensues, to the prince who with his own sword slew her father figure, and whose army slew most of her relatives. At first they hate each other, but they come to like each other just in time for the wedding. Prince’s sword appears in every single frame except when they go to bed together.
Of course that was just one random sample, possibly atypical.
James, I can’t tell if your example opposes or supports the hypothesis. My reading is that the story shows an andrarchy where the father must die so the husband can supplant. Are there myths that support that? Ariadne and Medea are near misses. I have the feeling I’m forgetting some of the nastier Grimm’s tales.
It’s pretty obvious that all those feminists who rant about rape, ugly fat and smelly that they are, have a certain longing in their voice when they refer to the act.
@ jamesd127
On the same note.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rapeman