The Tasmanian Devil Quandary

I was watching "High Plains Drifter" and there is a scene many would call a rape but in the 1970s and before many men (and women too) might call this a woman propositioning a man for sex instead. It all depends upon your point of view.

It reminded me of a travel program where they show a place where there is a female Tasmanian Devil in heat. Then they put in an inexperienced but able young male in with her and she almost kills him. Then they take the poor Young one out of the cage and put in a fully experienced and seasoned male in their with her and at first they both literally (tear the shit out of each other) and then he mates with her because he knows how it's done. And this is life for some mammals (including humans) down through the centuries of how babies actually were born.....


But, nowadays this scene in "High Plains Drifter" would ONLY be perceived as rape. But, putting a man down vehemently in "High Plains Drifter" can also be a woman demanding sex from a man too if you look at history down through the ages.

So, what I'm saying here is I was completely shocked to see this scene play out and now I would classify Clint Eastwood in this scene as a rapist. But, in the 1970s I would have said, "This woman got exactly what she was asking for."

This shows just how much the world has changed between the 1970s and now.

And her trying to shoot Clint Eastwood in a bathtub later was only her confusion about being a woman who wanted him in the first place. Because often when I was growing up women were prevented from having any sexual feelings at all without extreme guilt. And this was one of the ways it looked like when it manifested in a woman wanting a man and being all twisted up and guilty about it in the 1970s and before.

This was mostly true until 1960 when the Birth Control pill became legal and women could then have sex with any man they wanted without the same fear of getting pregnant the first time they did this.

So, how women acted and thought about all this dramatically changed starting in 1960 and after and mostly this was what the Sexual revolution was all about. Women could then have sex with any man they wanted without necessarily having a baby. And this changed everything about women in the Western world from then on.

Which is also why women who aren't allowed birth control (outside of the western world) don't understand sexually liberated women generally speaking now on earth.