# Quartz - please explain your rape fixation? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 3, 2018, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quartz-please-explain-your-rape-fixation/817209 "2018-07-03T02:14:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2018, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quartz-please-explain-your-rape-fixation/817209/61 "2018-07-03T13:56:28Z")
> [@Gary\_Kumquat](#): > > I believe that Quartz is living nearly as far north as you can in the UK, but he is most certainly English. I’m a thoroughly British mixture of English, Scottish, Welsh, and Norse. ---
**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2018, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quartz-please-explain-your-rape-fixation/817209/62 "2018-07-03T14:07:07Z")
> [@Quartz](#): > > If you’d actually paid attention to my posts, you’d realise that I promote equality. I’ve paid attention to your posts, and you are pretty much consistently a jerk. ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2018, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quartz-please-explain-your-rape-fixation/817209/63 "2018-07-03T14:16:18Z")
> [@Ravenman](#): > > I’ve paid attention to your posts, and you are pretty much consistently a jerk. You have the right to be wrong. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2018, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quartz-please-explain-your-rape-fixation/817209/64 "2018-07-03T14:21:39Z")
> [@Quartz](#): > > And you can take your misogyny bullcrap and stick it back up your arse. I’ve stood up and placed myself in harms way when it was required. The guy plead guilty in court. Brave, brave, brave, brave Sir Robin! ---
**Author:** ![raventhief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/raventhief/32/4_2.png) [@raventhief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raventhief)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2018, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quartz-please-explain-your-rape-fixation/817209/65 "2018-07-03T14:26:21Z")
> [@MandaJo](#): > > This thread is driving me crazy. I don’t even know why I find it so frustrating. I wanted to have a civil conversation about an interesting topic, but it can’t move forward because he won’t define the fucking term and accuses me of having an agenda. I don’t generally set up rhetorical traps. People, including some with medical backgrounds : your question isn’t clear. What do you mean by "respect the parents’ wishes? Quartz: my question is perfectly clear. If you don’t understand it, that’s on you. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2018, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quartz-please-explain-your-rape-fixation/817209/66 "2018-07-03T14:36:34Z")
[Admiral Akbar’s Dumber Brother]Even though I was the one that made this vague OP, I accuse you all of trying to trap _me_![/AADB] ---
**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2018, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quartz-please-explain-your-rape-fixation/817209/67 "2018-07-03T14:40:57Z")
> [@Quartz](#): > > You have the right to be wrong. Well, this thread is an indication that people don’t share your high opinion of yourself. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2018, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quartz-please-explain-your-rape-fixation/817209/68 "2018-07-03T14:43:11Z")
> [@splatterpunk](#): > > **Quartz** is a fifty year old virgin who has never had a serious relationship with a woman. I don’t know why anyone is surprised that he sucks Trump’s dick and thinks women are _ **teh eviiillll!** _ Because being a virgin and not having serious relationships with women do not actually make a person stupid and hateful. ---
**Author:** ![MandaJo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac91a4/32.png) [@MandaJo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MandaJo)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2018, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quartz-please-explain-your-rape-fixation/817209/69 "2018-07-03T14:50:22Z")
> [@wonky](#): > > Because being a virgin and not having serious relationships with women do not actually make a person stupid and hateful. I agree, the quoted remark is uncalled for. Worse, it reinforces the very toxic masculinity that is the problem; the idea that real men find a way to “get sex” and that males who fail in that “quest” must be inferior in some way. Incels buy into this, and they are bitter about their failure to score points in this game. We don’t do anyone any favors if we perpetuate that idea. Thank you for saying something. I meant to, and I got busy and forgot–but I shouldn’t have, because it’s a far bigger deal than if one poster is a raging asshole. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2018, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quartz-please-explain-your-rape-fixation/817209/70 "2018-07-03T15:14:32Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > Is there a cite for this, because otherwise my predictions for it turning into a [generic insult](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=21029553#post21029553) seem to be coming true. Yeah, I think we’ll see more of this rather than less as people on the attack seek and find ways of weaponizing what they think are other people’s vulnerabilities. ---
**Author:** ![aldiboronti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@aldiboronti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aldiboronti)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2018, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quartz-please-explain-your-rape-fixation/817209/71 "2018-07-03T15:14:54Z")
> [@wonky](#): > > Because being a virgin and not having serious relationships with women do not actually make a person stupid and hateful. True. But it would make them completely ignorant about women. ---
**Author:** ![Gleena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b3f665/32.png) [@Gleena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gleena)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2018, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quartz-please-explain-your-rape-fixation/817209/72 "2018-07-03T15:46:56Z")
> [@Quartz](#): > > I’m a thoroughly British mixture of English, Scottish, Welsh, and Norse. In a misogynistic, Tory dickhead candy shell. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2018, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quartz-please-explain-your-rape-fixation/817209/73 "2018-07-03T15:47:26Z")
> [@aldiboronti](#): > > True. But it would make them completely ignorant about women. Not necessarily. You don’t actually need to fuck someone to know something about them. ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2018, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quartz-please-explain-your-rape-fixation/817209/74 "2018-07-03T15:55:34Z")
> [@Gleena](#): > > In a misogynistic, Tory dickhead candy shell. Wrong on all counts. ---
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2018, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quartz-please-explain-your-rape-fixation/817209/75 "2018-07-03T15:57:07Z")
> [@snfaulkner](#): > > Is there any answer Quartz can give and not seem even creepier? What is the best case scenario here? Market Research ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2018, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quartz-please-explain-your-rape-fixation/817209/76 "2018-07-03T16:01:38Z")
> [@Quartz](#): > > Wrong on all counts. Trying to prove that women raping men is as much a problem as men raping women is _not_ fighting for equality. Now you know, [and knowing is half the battle.](http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=nowing+is+half+the+battle&view=detail&mid=403C92D49083A6A59D1D403C92D49083A6A59D1D&FORM=VIRE) ---
**Author:** ![MandaJo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac91a4/32.png) [@MandaJo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MandaJo)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2018, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quartz-please-explain-your-rape-fixation/817209/77 "2018-07-03T16:02:48Z")
> [@wonky](#): > > Not necessarily. You don’t actually need to fuck someone to know something about them. There are plenty of people out there who have only had sex because they paid for it, acted deceptively or assaulted someone. They aren’t better informed about women than someone who hasn’t done those things. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2018, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quartz-please-explain-your-rape-fixation/817209/78 "2018-07-03T16:06:53Z")
> [@Quartz](#): > > Heaven forfend that I point out the bad arguments and the paranoid ravings, or when I insist on that most British of things, fair play. Or even that most Doper of things, fighting ignorance. You, of course, do not notice when I criticise Trump and his ilk. The moderators on general - and you in particular - have completely failed here. I fear you - and America - will find this out the hard way in November. Of course, none of this actually addresses the very good reasons for which you are being Pitted. And the allegation that because we permit people to be disrespectful to Trump on this forum will result in a Republican victory in the mid-terms is demented beyond belief. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2018, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quartz-please-explain-your-rape-fixation/817209/79 "2018-07-03T16:14:24Z")
> [@Quartz](#): > > Heaven forfend that I point out the bad arguments and the paranoid ravings, or **when I insist on that most British of things, fair play**. Or even that most Doper of things, fighting ignorance. You, of course, do not notice when I criticise Trump and his ilk. The moderators on general - and you in particular - have completely failed here. I fear you - and America - will find this out the hard way in November. I’ve said it before, but the posts made by **Quartz** are best enjoyed when you imagine them being read by John Oliver in full ironical British stiff upper lip mode. It is unfortunate that they aren’t followed up by a [talking diseased lung](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EROql_0GgiQ&t=48s) or a [cathing cowboy giving a lesson on the nuclear triad](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=i296CJMOZpk&t=22s). Stranger ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2018, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quartz-please-explain-your-rape-fixation/817209/80 "2018-07-03T16:34:57Z")
> [@MandaJo](#): > > There are plenty of people out there who have only had sex because they paid for it, acted deceptively or assaulted someone. They aren’t better informed about women than someone who hasn’t done those things. Indeed. And just in general, I doubt most men would claim that they don’t know anything about men unless they’ve had sex with men or romantic relationships with men. For all people, if you know something about anyone, you probably know something about everyone. We’re all much more alike than we are different, and women are not an alien species whose true natures are only revealed when you stick your penis in them. Pinkie swear. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quartz-please-explain-your-rape-fixation/817209.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quartz-please-explain-your-rape-fixation/817209.md?page=5)