Is There Any Safe Place Left On Earth For Women?

Question

Sexual Abuse By Military Recruiters
Over 100 Women Raped Or Assaulted By Recruiters In Past Year
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/08/19/national/main1913849.shtml
please read link before giving your answer

Answer 1

No. No one--of either gender--can be 100% assured of their personal safety--not anywhere. But there are some places that are better than others. You're probably safer walking down the sidewalk in a middle-class U.S. suburb than you are walking down a gang-infested underclass ghetto in that some country. And you're probably safer in a U.S. gang-infested ghetto than you are 'most anywhere in Iraq. But I digress...

Many people will call this "male bashing," and some people will reluctantly acknowledge that it's, basically, the truth: But the fact is that women--throughout all cultures and throughout history--have been viewed by males as being "useful" to them chiefly for sexual gratification and for reproduction. And women, themselves, often absorb this cultural message and see THEMSELVES (and other women) this way. (That is not to say that every man and every woman is that way or that no man values any woman as a human being, on an equal par with himself. But the cultures in which we are raised send out messages about gender roles, and many of us absorb those messages on a subconscious level and don't even think to question them.)

On top of all of the above factors, the military has, historically, and across cultures, been "all about" the mass rape of conquered women and the easy accessability of "whores" in foreign lands as "side benefit" for soldiers. No one SAYS this, out-and-out: It's simply "understood." It's part of military culture. (Side note: It's also something that we're not "allowed" to say nowadays, because it's seen solely as an unpatriotic and anti-American dishonoring of our soldiers, who are putting their lives on the line. But that's not what I'm talking about. I am not specifically putting down the U.S. military or "Our Boys." I am saying that the problem is much more-general and much more-pervasive than what's going on with our own military at this particular point in time.)

Historically, although there have always been INDIVIDUAL women who have fought alongside male soldiers, the military has always been a MALE THING. And this means that it takes a HUGE "paradigm shift" in everyone's minds when women start being put, in large numbers, into the military, alongside men. Israel seems to have done this successfully. But then, when Israel started this, they were a new country, they were creating a culture anew, and they were starting out with all new paradigms. The same is NOT true of the U.S. We're just now starting to put a substantial number of women into what's been a formerly-all-male "boy's club." And the "boys" don't know how to deal with it, what with their having been (either consciously or subconsiously) conditioned to see women and "conquered enemy, ripe for raping and disgrace," "exotic, foreign sexual services, for a price" or "sisters, wives, and mothers, on the Homefront, to be protected." Nowhere have these men been conditioned to see women as equals and peers, and they're falling into their old habits. (Also note that women have always been vulnerable to ALL men who are in positions of power. That's why there are laws against sexual harassment in the workplace, and that's the origination of the old Hollywod term, "casting couch." Too many men in positions of power see sexual access to women as their RIGHT, as their DUE.)

Answer 2

I think you do the same thing as what happened at Abu Graib. You investigate, you charge, and you try the accused, and if they are convicted they are appropriatly punished. Just like you would under civilian law.

What makes you think this is any different from any other group of people? How many rapes took place in the US? How many rapes took place in Iraq?

What I think is this. If you pull that stuff in the Military you are far more likely to get hammered than if you are a civilian dong the same thing. AND you get hammered for that in the military, if HAD planned on making the military a career. You can forget it.

The military isn't the Catholic Church or IBM or Congreee or the White House where you sweep it under the carpet and hope it get's forgotten soon. If Clinton had pulled what he pulled in the miltary he would have gotten a dishonorable discharge on paper instead of Monica's dress.

Answer 3

hey nobody is safe in the modern world you are talking of women I often worry about 5-6 year olds it must be so much worse for them to even comprehend the things that are done to them. Women would be much safer if they learnt some kind self defence, why don't the families promote it to keep the ladies safe? You just need to use some common sense in conjunction with some good self defence mechanisms to prevent most of the harm done to women. Do you agree?

Answer 4

There was a movie called the General's Daughter with John Travolta. If you watch this movie, it reminds me of this webpage. There are women getting raped or assaulted all the time, even during time of war with the enemy. It goes on, we just don't hear too much about it.

Answer 5

a sturdy factor plus they Palestinians conceal in the back of civilians, who've no decision or do they? They voted those thugs into workplace clone of idiots who voted in the Chicago Mob.

Answer 6

It is scary to think that someone could and would violate a person in this way. I don't think that anywhere is safe anymore. Take Care.

Answer 7

I think that your question is a little over dramatic even after I read the article at your link.

Answer 8

This is a miniscule concern.

The Reptilian Humanoids will make their move....and you won't be prepared because you are so worried about silly things like this.

http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sumer_anunnaki/reptiles/reptiles20a.htm

Answer 9

Keep out of the Forces then!

Answer 10

i don't think so. astronauts are trying to discover if humans can live on the moon.