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In reply to the discussion: Did Mitt Romney rape anyone that he pulled over when impersonating a cop? [View all]haele
(15,436 posts)Is enough. He may not have needed to rape them, he already proved to himself he could easily project power over them whenever he wanted to use it.
Just because he didn't sexually rape anyone after he pulled them over doesn't mean the same emotional mechanism wasn't in play.
It's still a violation, because "seizing and holding a person against their will" or kidnapping is valid under the archaic definition of rape; the poet Chaucer and a few of his friends were accused of the "rape" of the wife of the other party in a lawsuit, stopping her at a market and holding her until they forced a legal agreement from her husband.
Ultimately, it's one of the reasons that it is against the law to impersonate an officer of the law outside of a party or as a paid actor.
But, of course, in Romney or any other rich kid or political figure's case, it can be excused as "boys will be boys", and "it's all good, clean fun until someone gets hurt".
And "well, at least he didn't rape anyone"... Again, he didn't have to. He probably got enough of the power jolly he wanted by stopping someone and imposing his will on them. Add to that the potential feeling of control he got by telling himself that he could have, but didn't. What is scarier? The potential psychopath or sociopath who has a twisted urge but doesn't indulge them all the way, or the one who gives in to the urge and completes the action?
Not saying anyone's a psychopath or sociopath, but there is obviously an issue going on there.
Haele