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...funny about man's attitude toward rape in war," she writes. "Unquestionably there shall be some raping. Unconscionable, but nevertheless inevitable. When men are men, slugging it out among themselves, conquering new land, subjugating new people, driving toward victory, unquestionably there shall be some raping." Because most historians agree with this traditional view of rape as a natural, while unfortunate side-effect of war, they continually gloss over the subject, if they mention it at all. Journalists can also be indicted for their reluctance to investigate rumors of massive rapes, or to publish reports of them even when verified. Their...
Both historians and journalists have been guilty of dismissing this very major consequence of war, this calculated, indiscriminate humiliation and torture of non-belligerent pawns. As Brownmiller points out, they have generally ignored rape "as tangential, inconsequential or as possessing dubious validity...
...victims can be almost anybody. While the preponderance of rape victims are young women between 10 and 29 years old, Brownmiller cites a D.C. General Hospital report which lists ages from 15 months to 82 years. We are all vulnerable; those who claim otherwise are foolhardy. Having grown up in a high rape area in New York City, and having escaped untouched, I used to scorn women who took (reasonable) precautions. "They can smell you're scared," I used to chide them, "You're turning yourself into an easy prey." Nobody would mess with a strapping 6-ft. woman like...
Brownmiller writes: "If we say conservatively that only one in five rape incidents was actually reported we arrive at a figure of 255,000 rapes and attempted rapes in these United States in 1973, a figure that I consider to be an unemotional, rock-bottom minimum...
...Rape is a game of conquests, a fight for superior standing in a culture that values those on top and scorns those on bottom. Even in the case of homosexual rape in prisons, as Brownmiller points out, it is "a product of a violent subculture's definition of masculinity through physical triumph, and those who emerged as 'women' were those who were subjugated by real or threatened force...