Women as wartime rapists: a new book explores 'the impossible': "Academic Laura Sjoberg argues that our gendered assumptions about sexual violence in conflict limit our understanding of these crimes."

marcooni1 · 2017-08-02T13:23:47+00:00

Could be interesting, but one thing bothered me. “collecting the tattooed skin of women prisoners as home decorations, crafting lampshades and other household goods from the skin of Buchenwald victims" . Was the lampshade thing debunked as myth and propaganda?

thrway_1000 · 2017-08-02T21:21:38+00:00

https://archive.is/fotPr

dungone · 2017-08-03T01:15:10+00:00

Let me guess, there will be a call to provide special conseling and support networks for female war criminals. That's what happened when feminists realized that female civilians could be rapists.

England was court-martialled and jailed in 2005 for her role in sexually abusing the prisoners. Sjoberg said she “was on the front page of the Los Angeles Times in 2003 and I sat staring at the page for 20 minutes, because it didn’t make sense to me. And then I stared at it for another three hours because I couldn’t figure out why it didn’t made sense to me. And I think I have spent the last decade making sense of it”.

That's what happens when you're a indoctrinated as a feminist. You never hear of the only things about gender that actually matter and then it takes you ten years to come to the wrong conclusion.

Sjoberg also dissects the various roles women are ‘given’ in patriarchal narratives of war: as peaceful vessels and innocent civilians in need of protection;

Yeah, the Patriarchy... like every feminist ever, including Hillary "primary victim of war@ Clinton.

inviting ugly discussions of supposed flaws in femininity that make the sort of atrocities she committed possible.

But when men do it, it is never perceived as a flaw in masculinity. Something something systematic institutionalized something. Because when women are treated equally to men, it's sexism against women.

The media’s reporting of Nyiramasuhuko’s case was distinctly gendered

So we are complaining when female rapists are mentioned in the media. Got it.

The courage of these women and girls has been publicly drowned out amid the cacophony of grisly descriptions of horrors endured — meanwhile the role that ISIS women played their trafficking, enforced captivity and torture has also been largely ignored.

Ok never mind I don't get it. This paradox of women always being the victim is too fucking hard for my primitive male brain to process.

“Why do we believe that women will always been on the side of other women?”, Sjoberg asks. “Because this is hard stuff. Really hard”. She warns: “We can all be complicit actually. Sex oppression can be perpetrated by anyone, including women...Women are just people too, and people do bad things.”

Ok so after spending ten years pondering why she saw a woman holding naked men on a leash, the conclusion is that women don't always stick up for other women.

And in any given situation, if women are more horrible than men then that just makes them no different from men, or something. Heady stuff, indeed.

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