Maybe in most people...that's honestly what I started to write.
Militarism = Violence Against Women
Unfortunately, this is not too shocking ...
A recent study by the Department of Justice found that military veterans are twice as likely to be incarcerated for sexual assault than nonveterans. When asked about the finding, Margaret E. Noonan, one of the authors of the study, told the Associated Press, "We couldn't come to any definite conclusion as to why." The intrinsic and systemic connection between militarism and violence against women, however, makes this finding far from surprising.
Sexual violence has been a de facto weapon of war since the beginning of the patriarchal age. Raping and assaulting women is seen as a way to attack the honor of the enemy, and women have always been the spoils of war. The result is that many types of violence against women are exacerbated by militarism, including the indirect effects on civilian populations both during hostilities and after the conflict ends and soldiers go home.
How not shocking is it?
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okay
Thats not good. War does bad things to people. I just wish more people would recognize that war has negative, long-lasting effects on people.
wrong functioning of centres....,
is a helluva drug...., and damn near impossible to correct after the erroneous circuits have been established. gender as object goes even deeper than ethnie as species...,