Rape & self-ownership: a paradox
“How can you equivocate about a woman’s self-ownership of her body when she is confronted by a sexual predator, and yet assert her right of self-ownership when she is confronted by the taxman? It can’t be that the right care more about the interests of rich men than about intellectual consistency, can it? There is, though, one man here who is entirely consistent - George Galloway. His claim that Assange’s actions were “not rape” is consistent with his support for dictators, in that both represent a denial of even the weakest rights of individuals’ self-ownership. Our admiration for his consistency should, however, be tempered by the fact that he is consistently a twat.”
