In These Times

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• • 14 Sep 08
  • 11:40 pm

  Why do soldiers rape? It seems, there are, once again, too many direct political interests involved in this view of the military and violence, and sexual violence in particular. There has, indeed, been a long-known trend of “kill the men and rape the women” in ancient warfare – which we have seen again in Srebrenica and before in the Palestine of 1948, when all males from 10 to 50 were killed, while the re-population with conquerors sperm took place. One of the background reasons here used to be the male fighting monopoly, which made the military more aggressive –in the killing …

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• • 16 Sep 08
  • 11:46 pm

  I got it wrong - the name was Mc Dowell. That does, however, not mean the study was wrong. ArmyVet sounds as if she would also discard the Kanin Study of Purdue University and the police with its 41% admissions of false rape accusations. FBI's study of over 4,600 cases also found 25% clear lies, and 25% doubtful - which means 50% cases should legally be discarded. Mc Dowell only confirms this trend - disclaiming Susan Brownmiller's New York coffee-house gossip of "maximal 2% false rape accusations". And in addition, where the accused is not a person previously known to the …

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