RE: Women in the Military More Likely to Be Traumatized by Sexual Assault Than Combat
November 25, 2012 at 4:27 am
Quote:news reports document that suicide now outpaces death under fire as the leading cause of mortality among vets. It also seems that we are willing to look at military rape, in a way that we aren't at, say, college rape, which is just as systemic, because the icon of the "military woman" is one of the few we have of a woman who is blameless.
How can our culture imagine a military woman as a "virtuous" victim, and thus more readily look at what happened to her?
She has sacrificed herself – that ultimate cultural marker for female virtue – and is facing dangers on our behalf. She is not out on her own, uncontrolled, being wild or "asking for it". She is, rather, in a state of discipline, under command, subordinated to the ultimate patriarchal control system
that's not the fucking issue and you give two shits, about these people, your making some bullshit anti-aghan war statement, by appealing to the emotional reaction of "rape"........and it's bullshit........ As shocking as the description of those rapes were, the whole point was too explain why certain rape gets news coverage, and others don't (which is why you found it in the assange news section). In, fact that article's whole point seems to be that stories like this should not get coverage, a more appropriate title for this thread should be "Why you should not give two flying fucks about women being raped in the military"
