Thread by @shengokai

If you use sexual violence as a metaphor to describe a theory, that's a blockin', full stop.

I'm happy to build my moral high ground on the corpses of the trolls I've slain, but some shit is beyond the pale and not worth the engagement.

Sexual violence is not trivial, and theoretical positions that you disagree with are not acts of intellectual violation on par with sexual violence. Using sexual violence metaphorically or analogically to describe theory trivializes the real trauma of sexual violence.

Using sexual violence analogically or metaphorically in this way also contributes to the ongoing permissibility of sexual violence in our culture. It treats the violence as "normal," rather than as a sign of an expansive social problem. It's also really fucking callous.

So yeah, you deploy a sexual violence metaphor to describe your experience of reading a text you disagree with, to describe the "imposition" of a texts claims, to treat your experience of "oppression" by a text as similar to being assaulted, that's a blockin.'

Further, the fact that I have to spell all this out should really say something about the kinds of interactions I have with people in The Discourse.