Was Garp's mother a rapist?


I saw the movie as a child so long ago that my memory is a haze but I am working on the book right now and I think mounting a brain dead person who is physically capable of an erection is just as much a rape as a male nurse having sex with a comatose woman?

I think she committed the almost (emphasis on the "almost") impossible event of a woman raping a man.

Granted the "Ellen Jamisons" were protesting rapists who were far worse than she was but being technically a rapist all of the anti rape feminist women should have hated her. Idolizing a rapist when being a feminist seems to me to be hypocritical.

Maybe the movie is a different story but the BOOK version of Garp's mother should have been fired from nursing, convicted of rape or some other rape like crime (no way a brain damaged person like that could give consent) and be registered as a sex offender.

There is something I find very ironic about a rapist being idolized by feminists.

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Yes, she raped him.

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Why would those particular "feminists" care, she didn't rape a woman after all!

I understand your point, and yes, she was a rapist. Just imagine if a male doctor had raped a dying woman in order to raise a child without interference of a wife (setting aside the practical problems of such an idea - carrying a child to term, THEN dying? - and the unlikelihood of a man wanting the same thing a woman like Jenny wanted). Different? Yes. But still rape.

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Yes.

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Even in the movie one of the teachers early on says, "You raped him! You raped a dying man!" So, yes, it was addressed in the movie. Now we can move on.









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