Tuesday, June 21, 2005
A few points raised
Very interesting article in the Guardian about rape during war-time. There's not much getting round it, basically every major war in history has seen rape used by both sides as a basic modus operandi. And then they tell us that they don't think we should let women fight in the army... Does anyone think maybe we shouldn't let MEN fight in the army? I do. What is also clear here, as though anyone were ever in any doubt, is that rape is not a sexual act, not related to frustration and attractiveness but an act of violence and aggression, reflective of an underlying hatred of women. Its about a desire to hurt, not a desire to please. That hatred and desire to hurt women permeate our culture in peacetime too, think of films like the disgusting Boxing Helena or the nasty end of the porn industry, some of the lyrics of popular music, games like Grand Theft Auto where running over hookers is a standard tactic...
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'What is also clear here, as though anyone were ever in any doubt, is that rape is not a sexual act'. To you perhaps, and its also the prevailing view of feminists, but I suspect you know it isn't an unchallenged view even in academia. As for the violence of our culture towards women, have you watched many films? The amount of violence towards in them men is huge. From westerns to war films, men are killed in large numbers and in horrible ways. As far as British society is concerned, it is far better to be a woman if avoidance of violence is your goal. For example, my grandfather lies in a grave in Germany after the government forced him to give up his job and go and fight for a living. My grandmother died in her bed in 1995. Culturally, then as now, it wasn't considered necessary for my grandmother to endanger her life for the state by flying off to Berlin every night in a plane made of tinplate and string. Rape is an nasty fact of life, like many other nasty facts of life. To argue that women are particular victims of a violent culture is a very narrow minded view to take.
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