Comparing the Benghazi hearing to gang rape--thoughts? **Trigger warning**

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9. That's not what was happening, and I don't agree with the comparison

If they had been able to dominate, and it was a classic male/female dominance paradigm, the comparison would have been crude, and possibly insulting to SA survivors, but more apt. IMO, a rape analogy is only apt when obvious power and dominance is involved, with one side taking advantage of male/white/Cis/hetero/ privilege and patriarchy. Always patriarchy--which is probably why the poster used the analogy. Our entire political structure is based on patriarchy, and the rising female powers have to operate inside it, Hillary has a lot of experience with it, and she, not they, dominated

So they were unable to gain dominance, indeed if they had, it would have been a serious blow to her campaign, not because the allegations are true, but because she would be seen as weak, "female" with all the common sexist bullshit she gets tossed at her "cold" "shrill" "manipulative" "whore"

In fact a more interesting observation to me, is how much of the oft denied or unacknowledged visceral dislike of Hillary comes from her strong political survivors position and obvious power as a female gendered politician. I know that is not a popular topic at DU--thank goodness for feminist blogs.