Virtuous Violence: Hurting and Killing to Create, Sustain, End, and Honor Social Relationships by Alan Page Fiske & Tage Shakti Rai

Author:Alan Page Fiske & Tage Shakti Rai [Fiske, Alan Page]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-11-26T23:00:00+00:00

In this study, feelings of anger resulting from perceptions that women had “hurt” them – that is, done something morally wrong against the man – predicted self-reported sexual aggression. In other words, men sexually assault women to punish them – to get revenge for other women’s transgressions against them. These perceived transgressions consist primarily of violations of what the perpetrator perceives of as his rightful position of superiority over women.

In interviews with 114 men convicted of rape or attempted rape in Virginia, many rapists reported that they raped for revenge or to punish, typically treating all women as collectively responsible for one or more specific woman’s alleged transgressions against the rapist (Scully and Marolla, 1985). Revenge rapists were angry at women for violating the rapist’s moral code; they raped the “transgressor” or any other woman to “get even” (Scully and Marolla, 1985; see also Hale, 1997). Some men were metarelationally motivated: they had raped a woman to “get even” with the woman’s partner for a perceived transgression against the rapist, or as redirected “punishment” against an unrelated third party (Scully and Marolla, 1985). One man raped and murdered five strangers; he explained,

I wanted to take my anger and frustration out on a stranger, to be in control, to do what I wanted to do. I wanted to use and abuse someone as I felt used and abused. I was killing my girlfriend. During the rapes and murders, I would think about my girlfriend. I hated the victims because they probably messed men over. I hated women because they were deceitful and I was getting revenge for what happened to me.

(Scully and Marolla, 1985: 257)

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