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    It is not the case that Heterosexual men cannot imagine how a female rape victim feels.

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    • 1.Imaginative perspective-taking can bridge experiential gaps, as Nagel's 'What Is It Like to Be a Bat?' shows partial understanding is possible without identical experience.
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    • 2.Trauma research demonstrates heterosexual men who survived sexual assault share phenomenologically overlapping experiences with female rape victims.
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    • 3.Denying cross-experiential empathy undermines the universalist foundations of moral psychology and victim advocacy itself.
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    • 1.The claim conflates complete imaginative identification with partial but morally sufficient empathic understanding, a distinction central to Goldie's work on narrative empathy.
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    • 2.Social role and structural vulnerability, while shaping experience, do not constitute absolute epistemic barriers, as feminist standpoint theorists like Harding acknowledge degrees of outsider understanding.
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    • 1.Heterosexual men cannot imagine the fear of rape that most if not all women feel.
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    • 2.Heterosexual men do not have to deal with social attitudes that make them targets of sexual violence.
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