Saturday, March 05, 2005

Why Is Rape Not Taken Seriously?

Five of the six men convicted of gang raping a 30 year old Pakistani woman in 2002 have had their death sentences overturned (14 men total had been charged in the case). And what about this case of a senior UN official from France, Didier Bourguet, who had 1000's of photos on his computer's hard drive of him having sex with young Congolese girls? I'd like to think that if it happened to men that it would raise more of a flag for people and make them care about this issue, but it must not given the way Americans seemingly accept the horrors at Abu Ghraib as "something that just happens during times of war". Why are the prisons in Iraq bursting over capacity again, and what the hell is going on behind closed doors? Will we ever know? Do Americans even care? Or do we really like the Guantanamo Bay treatment that abuse gets, i.e., we aren't allowed to know, we don't want to know, and hell, why should we care to know? We might care if it were our loved ones suffering inside one of those hellholes, but I'm sure that many Americans would blow it off as just another one of those wartime activities... but hey!... we HAVE to protest and pry and outlaw consensual and legal sexual activities of Americans dammit! (Clinton's bj, gay and lesbian relationships, etc). And this just in--- discrimination against women is "staggering" says the UN. Really? Wow, who knew?
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