Sex is gay, rape is epic, no fatties: Young right-wing men are obsessed with male power and male bodies

> Supremacy is an all-consuming logic on the MAGA right today. Christian supremacy, white supremacy, male supremacy, almost every corner of MAGA is marked by one or some combination of supremacist logic and a desire to subjugate some other group. This fixation on domination is precisely why I argued back in March that Andrew Tate has natural appeal to many younger Republicans and that rape as an ordering principle defines MAGA politics.

> In the context of sex, this comes down to a wholesale rejection of sex as a consensual act for the enjoyment of both parties. This is something that Gillian Branstetter articulates in a piercing 2023 essay titled [“The Rape is the Point.”](https://autonomy.substack.com/p/the-rape-is-the-point) A man’s sexual prowess isn’t so much about pleasing or wooing women. Instead it’s one more act of domination and will, an expression of masculine self-assertion. But that isn’t sex. That isn’t intercourse or love or passion. It’s rape. Branstetter puts it this way:

> > To [Trump’s followers], Trump’s sexual violence represents the very patriarchal power they seek to enforce. His appeals to a history that never existed are both amoral justifications for his own actions and nostalgic yearnings for a time when consent, of the governed or the raped, was irrelevant. His inability to feel shame is a promise they, too, can be freed of psychic guilt or societal consequence for grabbing what they feel entitled to by birth or accumulated power. What Trump is selling is an absence of virtues or protections—a life where every man is a king free to reign among the stars.

> I think it’s noteworthy here to observe that the original exchange in the Young Republicans’ group chat was about Spanish colonists and soldiers coming to the Americas and raping native women. It’s a misogynistic joke layered within a racist view of the description and, yes, rampant rape of the colonial period as a good thing. Western men came and took what they wanted. And, in the MAGA view, it helped give us a Western, European America.

> Rape is a tool for conquest and cleansing, just as sexual connection is for liberal lushes. As far-right commentator Jack Murphy, on whose podcast JD Vance was a guest in 2022, [once wrote](https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/08/jd-vance-appeared-with-podcaster-jack-murphy-who-said-feminists-need-rape/), “Feminists need rape… It is our duty as men to save feminists from themselves. Therefore, I am offering rape to feminists as an olive branch.”

!ping FEMINISTS

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