rape being used as a weapon of war is so heart wrenching. it was used during the partition of india, the french used it in algeria, serbians used it against bosnian women, it’s being used right now in syria and what’s so heart breaking is the fact that women choose to commit suicide because of the possibility of being raped. humanity never learns, we really have failed.
i read a case study of a french soldier raping an algerian woman, he said [to his victim] “we can tell your filthy husband what we got up to when we find him”. she asked to be killed before they found her husband. in bosnia, serbian men raped women systematically so that the child would have “serbian blood”, ‘to weaken bosnian men’. during the partition women were raped in revenge attacks or deliberately raped because they [both hindus and muslims] knew how important ‘honour’ was to the other party, hence if their daughter was raped by ‘the other’ they would end up abandoning her or killing her. so this is why it’s so hard to see it happening again in syria because of the pain it has caused in the past for women.
always in war ravaged areas the amount of STI’s and pregnancies sky rockets because there is so much rape and womens bodies are used against them, and yeah many women in syria are committing suicide to avoid rape, very sad
Don’t forget about the Nanking Massacre. I’ve never been the same since reading up on it for an assignment.
I read about the Nanking massacre when I was still a kid, 9 or 10 years old, too young to handle it. It legitimately left marks for life: that’s how I learned the full extent of men’s violence against women, although I couldn’t articulate it then.
Now I’m reading Svetlana Alexievich’s “The unwomanly face of war”, and so far none of the women she talked to –women who served in the Soviet army during WWII– says anything about rape, though they tell other horrible, unimaginable things. But one man tells this: “We advance… The first German villages… We’re young. Strong. Four years without women. There’s wine in the cellars. Food. We’d catch German girls and… Ten men violated one girl… There weren’t enough women, the population fled before the Soviet army, we found very young ones. Twelve or thirteen years old… If she cried, we’d beat her, stuff something into her mouth. It was painful for her, but funny for us. Now I don’t understand how I could… A boy from a cultivated family… But I did it… The only thing we were afraid of was that our own girls would find out about it. Our nurses. We were ashamed before them…”
A female soldier tells her this: “The Germans didn’t take women soldiers prisoner… They shot them at once. Or led them before their lined-up soldiers and showed them off: look, they’re not women, they’re monsters. We always kept two bullets for ourselves, two –in case one misfired. One of our nurses was captured… A day later we took back that village. There were dead horses lying about, motorcycles, armored vehicles. We found her: eyes put out, breasts cut off. They had impaled her on a stake… It was freezing cold, and she was white as could be, and her hair was all grey… She was nineteen years old. In her knapsack we found letters from home and a green rubber bird. A child’s toy…”
I don’t know if in WWII rape was used deliberately as a weapon of war, or was just a consequence of misogyny and desensitisation to violence combined. Still, this illustrates what women are subjected to in war. Men’s hatred of women has no limits.
Women are the true victims of war
I hate that women don’t even play any active part in war yet when it happens, the worst things are inflicted on them.
In war, men are murdered by other men using bullets and bombs.
In war, women are murdered by men, who rape them with weapons like bayonets, or just rape them so many times with so many implements that their uteruses fall out of them, and then they’re either murdered with bullets, strangled, stabbed, beaten or simply left to die of septic shock.
Men die with their dignity and get posthumous medals for service.
When was the last time anyone even acknowledged the victims — let alone the survivors — of rape as a war crime?
Oh, right. The 12th of Never.
“Violence during the Rwandan genocide of 1994 took a gender-specific form when, over the course of 100 days, up to half a million women and children were raped, sexually mutilated, or murdered. The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) handed down the first conviction for the use of rape as a weapon of war during the civil conflict, and, because the intent of the mass violence against Rwandan women and children was to destroy, in whole or in part, a particular ethnic group, it was the first time that mass rape during wartime was found to be an act of genocidal rape.”
Imagine being so terminally online that you describe a war, a fucking war in which women and children have been raped and murdered, as “cringe.”
I think there’s something to this take tbh. People get big mad over whatever the popular opinion is and need to feel cool and edgy and contrarian or else they won’t feel special and will explode, and this is one of the cores of cringe culture (which is just hipster shit revamped). But instead of being weird assholes about a TV show a lot of people like, tankies decide to be the Ultimate weird asshole by being an online contrarian when normies say “hey genocide is bad, actually.”
okay picture this; i go back in time and find a victorian orphan child. do i blow his mind? do i break his brain? NO!!! i give him warm soft clothes and a hug. he gets me wizard high off what would commonly be used to treat a minor cough in that era. we both eventually contract a deadly illness and then i bring him to the future where we get easily cured of our ailment. i buy him a happy meal afterwards. he’s my good son now. love you son.
not only do i put a little line through my 7s but i put one through my Zs too. i’m sick and twisted. you’re never getting out of this network of caves alive.
for a man to have a peanut allergy is inexcusable. how are you going to protect and provide for a family if you can barely survive an encounter with a legume? it’s fine for girls though, maybe even kinda cute.
