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no_hypocrisy

(54,904 posts) Mon Aug 20, 2012, 10:32 AM Aug 2012

Didn't Ayn Rand discount rape as an invasive hostile crime?

I seem to remember Howard Roark raping Dominque in The Fountainhead and it was part of passion and gritty love. And Dominque's hidden need to be dominated.

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Didn't Ayn Rand discount rape as an invasive hostile crime? (Original Post) no_hypocrisy Aug 2012 OP

Her personal fantasies were of being raped by superior sociopaths cthulu2016 Aug 2012 #1

man wants woman d_r Aug 2012 #2

cthulu2016

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1. Her personal fantasies were of being raped by superior sociopaths

Reply to no_hypocrisy (Original post)

Mon Aug 20, 2012, 10:35 AM

Aug 2012

I don't know whether she formalized that into a philosophy

d_r

(6,908 posts)

2. man wants woman

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Mon Aug 20, 2012, 10:43 AM

Aug 2012

man takes woman. Woman likes it. Woman wanted it all along but too good to say so, had to act innocent. Man forces woman so woman can stay pure.

That's what I got out of the fountainhead.

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