(content warning) Transcendence and Urges

[heslopian]

Okay, I'd like to clear something up: I don't support molesting women (or men, for that matter) while they're drugged. You're right, it is rape. How can it be consensual if she's unconscious and doesn't know what he's doing to her? The suggestion that it might be consensual was an individual reader's interpretation, not mine. Also, in my opinion, she drugged herself; as I wrote this I envisaged her taking sleeping pills and her husband taking advantage of that. I don't believe that I'm condescending to women or that I'm justifying the husband's actions. My intention was simply to tell a horrific story and create surreal, disturbing images within it, not to apologise for rape or impart any serious message. Still, if you want to feel that this poem is misogynistic, that is of course your perogative. Also, I fully understand your point about the "trough of meat" line. It is condescending and generalising, and to be honest it's the one line I have a major problem with, because it's talking about a race as opposed to one person. I personally don't think I'm being misogynistic because nothing in this poem suggests to me that I think all women are self-abusing victims. As an endnote, I'd like to say that writing from a certain perspective doesn't mean you share that perspective. Is Jeff Lindsay a vigilante sociopath because he wrote the Dexter novels? Again, thank you for your thoughtful and honest feedback.