tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6744114065733119575.post7862507398702510858..comments2024-03-13T11:14:26.768-04:00Comments on A Radical Profeminist: What do you see? THIS PHOTOGRAPH speaks a thousand wordsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6744114065733119575.post-79248788563676023502009-11-10T18:56:41.747-05:002009-11-10T18:56:41.747-05:00No 'military = loser men' is not correct w...No 'military = loser men' is not correct what I said in my previous comment is that the military indoctrinates men to view 'the enemy' as dehumanised objects. My comments concerned the photograph alone but critiquing how militarism reinforces male power and male domination is another issue. <br /><br />I know many women and men too join the military because global capitalism ensures far too many women and men are not able to find employment which will lift them out of poverty view the military as a way of learning a skill and also earning above poverty salaries. There is is also the issue of healthcare which is prohibitive in the US. <br /><br />So who are the ones being exploited - those who join the military believing it will give them a better life or the white male politicians who create wars and then send these soldiers to their deaths or to suffer horrific injuries. <br /><br />Teaching soldiers to be war machines is not something which can be 'switched off' once a male soldier returns to his home country because militarism is all about male power and male domination over other people who are deemed not to be human. <br /><br />A culture of male sexual entitlement continues within all militaries including male soldiers' presumed right of buying women and girls for the purpose of releasing their supposedly innate and uncontrollable sex drives. <br /><br />See Sheila Jeffreys' book The Industrial Vagina for an analysis of how the military condoned and supported setting up brothels specifically for male military personnel serving (or should it be colonising stationed at bases located in countries outside the US. Who are the women used by these prostitutors? Why it is the women living in countries which have US bases. <br /><br />So the US military played a very important role in naturalising the so-called sex industry. But this does not mean the US military is solely responsible because other countries too have played their part in promoting prostitution which not only brings in immense profits but also supposedly benefits women living in these countries, whilst ensuring an unlimited supply of women for men to sexually exploit.JENNIFER DREWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02112807166372869685noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6744114065733119575.post-77409231975858820882009-11-10T00:29:58.937-05:002009-11-10T00:29:58.937-05:00It is unfortunately a reality in both the UK and U...It is unfortunately a reality in both the UK and US that these WHM in uniform are seen as heroes. I guess only in a WHM dominated world will we glorify rapists.<br />We are frequently made by the WHM dominated media to see them as heroes and saviors.<br /><br />We are told that these WHM in uniform are liberating these foreign countries. I would like someone to explain to me how you are liberating a country if you are there to rape and kill their women and girls. It is not enough for the WHM to oppress women, girls and minorities here in the UK and US; they have to do it all over the world. Clearly colonisation and slavery has never ended.<br /><br />I am grateful that Jennifer Drew brought up the UK male soldiers who are just as guilty as their US counterparts. Often in the international arena we feminists seem to concentrate very much on the US WHM and forget about the evils committed by the UK WHM<br /><br />And yes Julian, father-daughter incest is the most common type of child abuse. If these male soldiers are already raping their own daughters imagine how easy it would be for them to rape young girls in foreign countries.<br />How much of this foreign rape, abuse and murder goes un reported by the WHM dominated media. <br /><br />And how many of these men actually become rapists in foreign lands. After experiencing the joy of raping a young innocent foreign girl (sarcasm) they come back to the US or UK and rape their own daughters.Christinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03409494179906849654noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6744114065733119575.post-15064181531707010052009-11-09T21:00:17.399-05:002009-11-09T21:00:17.399-05:00Trying to get the hang in of this new sign in thin...Trying to get the hang in of this new sign in thing...<br />Military = men, today's military = loser men. Miliatry = rape and murder training for men already programmed to be rapists and woman killers. So you have a little girl near all these guys? You've got to be kidding me.<br /><br />No doubt Daddy will return home after raping and killing dozens of Afghan or Iraqi women and get a medal of honor for it. No doubt Daddy will contract VD or HIV buying prostitutes in Kabul, coming home, and infecting his wife. No doubt the bullies from high school, who are losers to the corp are getting into the military as we speak, or maybe they are too dumb to graduate, and thus we'll be saved from yet another dumbo man even getting into the military!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6744114065733119575.post-42908657620776756382009-11-09T13:53:15.001-05:002009-11-09T13:53:15.001-05:00Totally agree with your post Julian and also chris...Totally agree with your post Julian and also christine's analysis of this deliberately cynical and sentimental portrayal of 'the military machine.'<br /><br />I think there is also another aspect of this picture and that is 'all these brave soldiers going off to war in order to protect white little female children.' <br /><br />The military males pictured cannot possibly have any connection to the inumerable US male soldiers who rape and/or commit other forms of sexual violence against female soldiers within their ranks.<br /><br />Julian - your sentence <br /><br />'He is also likely to rape her. Maybe not "that one white man" but we know father-daughter incest is the most common form of child sexual abuse, and we also know that militarising men does nothing to make them more humane to anyone.'<br /><br />Absolutely correct militarising men does not make them more humane in fact it does the opposite which is to dehumanise them, as well as indoctrinating military men to view 'the enemy' as dehumanised objects - to be raped, subjected to sexual violence, mutilation and finally horrific sadistic murder. Who are these 'dehumanised others' why women in particular since whilst 'enemy males' are murdered it is always 'enemy females' who are subjected to the worst forms of male sexual sadistic lethal violence.<br /><br />Iraq and of course Afghanistan comes immediately to mind and I am not forgetting UK male soldiers are indoctrinated in similar ways. Of course male soldiers engaging in sadistic acts of sexual violence are always 'isolated cases' and have no connection whatsoever with the way our white male supremacist society dehumanises women and men of colour and in fact women and men whose ethnicity is not white western. <br /><br />Here in the UK we are experiencing another revival of patriotic fervor wherein criticism of US and UK forces invading and colonising Afghanistan is viewed as unpatriotic. Militarism is another important aspect of patriarchy and the upholding of white male supremacist beliefs.JENNIFER DREWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02112807166372869685noreply@blogger.com