tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post955848505130860666..comments2024-03-28T16:08:29.578-04:00Comments on Sardonicky: Rampant Rape in the Military: Who Knew?Karen Garciahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15612731479365562803noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-57513530798152386732013-05-09T07:00:37.336-04:002013-05-09T07:00:37.336-04:00Child abuse casts a shadow the length of a lifetim...Child abuse casts a shadow the length of a lifetime.<br /><br />“Children are a heritage of the Lord, and the fruit of the womb is His reward. Happy is the man who has his quiver full of them.” – Mittens Romney http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/05/mitt-romney-quiverfull-fundamentalist-family-planning-advice<br /><br />The Quiverfull movement preaches that it is the duty of women to submit, bear as many children as God would give them, and train them up as dedicated culture warriors, arrows in a divine quiver. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quiverfull<br /><br />“When we quarrel with the way the world is, we find that the world has ways of getting back at us. In other words, however we try, the sexual act cannot be made into an egalitarian pleasuring party. A man penetrates, conquers, colonizes, plants. A woman receives, surrenders, accepts.” - Douglas Wilson http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Wilson_(theologian)<br /><br />Janet Heimlich, Breaking Their Will: Shedding Light on Religious Child Maltreatment, exposes a dark side of faith that most Americans do not know exists or have ignored for a long time—religious child maltreatment. High-profile cases such as the child sexual abuse scandals in the Catholic Church and "faith healing" deaths in certain fundamentalist Christian congregations have made the public aware that religion can sometimes mask deviant and harmful behavior. But the extent of the problem is far greater than most people realize. <br /><br />According to the Department of Education, the number of kids being homeschooled nearly doubled between 1999 and 2007. The first generation to age out of the Christian homeschooling movement, that first took root in the 1980’s, are speaking out about their experiences.<br /><br />Former homeschoolers rally against abuse @ Homeschoolers Anonymous (HA), blogging about childhood experiences that left them traumatized and unprepared for adult life. Many were schooled in the Quiverfull movement. http://homeschoolersanonymous.wordpress.com/2013/03/16/for-the-media-former-homeschoolers-rally-against-abuse/<br /><br />No Longer Quivering, a gathering place for women escaping and healing from spiritual abuse: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/nolongerquivering/<br /><br />This is a world that does not love its children.Denis Nevillenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-44975932375690374532013-05-08T17:09:19.159-04:002013-05-08T17:09:19.159-04:00Power and Brutality
"The exercise of power i...Power and Brutality<br /><br />"The exercise of power in any institutionalized form — whether economic, political, religious, <b>or sexual</b> — brutalizes both the wielder of power and the one over whom it is exercised."<br /><br />from <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=LE1kjvjTHmIC&pg=PA41&dq=%22the+exercise+of+power+in+any+institutionalized+form%E2%80%94whether+economic,+political,+religious,+or+sexual%E2%80%94brutalizes+both+the+wielder+of+power+and+the+one+over+whom+it+is+exercised%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=6ryKUYPaBtW54AP6kIGwBQ&ved=0CC4Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22the%20exercise%20of%20power%20in%20any%20institutionalized%20form%E2%80%94whether%20economic%2C%20political%2C%20religious%2C%20or%20sexual%E2%80%94brutalizes%20both%20the%20wielder%20of%20power%20and%20the%20one%20over%20whom%20it%20is%20exercised%22&f=false" rel="nofollow"> <i>Free Women of Spain</i></a> by Martha A. Ackelsbergpete vhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02489398325160874093noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-74814209843651279292013-05-08T12:44:34.025-04:002013-05-08T12:44:34.025-04:00Rape is not just a nightmare for military women.
...Rape is not just a nightmare for military women.<br /><br />Military sexual violence impacts both men and women. Of the 19,300 estimated assaults in 2010, 10,700 victims were men, while 8,600 were women. About 1 in 5 women and 1 in 100 men seen in VHA (Veteran’s Health Administration) respond "yes" when screened for MST (military sexual trauma). Though rates of MST are higher among women, there are almost as many men seen in VA that have experienced MST as there are women. This is because there are many more men in the military than there are women.<br /><br />Report in the New York Daily News by Heidi Evans, “Majority of sexual assaults and rapes committed in military in 2011 were against men…Men are assaulted at a lower rate — 1% of servicemen reported being attacked by a comrade last year versus 4.4% of women — but that still translates to more than 10,000 cases compared with 9,000 attacks on female recruits and officers.” http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/majority-sexual-assaults-rapes-committed-military-2011-men-article-1.1150235<br /><br />Bill Sizemore, The Virginian-Pilot, “Military men are silent victims of sexual assault,” http://hamptonroads.com/2009/10/military-men-are-silent-victims-sexual-assault<br /><br />“It is the high victimization rate of female soldiers—women in the armed forces are now more likely to be assaulted by a fellow soldier than killed in combat—that has helped cast light on men assaulting other men,” wrote Jesse Ellison, “The Military's Secret Shame.” http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2011/04/03/the-military-s-secret-shame.html<br /><br />The institution that is supposed to protect us as citizens, protect our freedoms, is assaulting its own. <br /><br />As Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., noted, “This is not a female problem; it’s a predator problem.” This disgusting sexual violence is being done by perpetrators who use it to assert dominance and power over those they perceive to be weaker.<br /><br />And it is just another reflection of the general tone of our culture, in which the rest of us are now regarded as a prey by the vulture capitalists.Denis Nevillenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-49050569638373268002013-05-08T11:58:48.179-04:002013-05-08T11:58:48.179-04:00Yeah, the Big O is really an embarrassing idiot. A...Yeah, the Big O is really an embarrassing idiot. And, Karen, your comparison of rape in the military with the Catholic church and its essential abetting of sexual abuse was an apt one.James F Traynornoreply@blogger.com