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HippieCowgirl Donating Member (242 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-20-04 06:19 PM
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28. Weren't we supposed to be the liberators?
Saving the citizens of Iraq from Saddam's rape rooms? Looks like all we did was change the paint on the walls and move in.

I'm sick because the attitude is that it's no big deal because it's just women being raped, but it went into more detail about men being raped. Women don't matter, apparently. It's that "well, them's the breaks" attitude of our bullshit macho culture.

Bastards.


<i>aside</i><br>
I don't know if anyone else pointed this out, but our western culture forces "child" status on a woman of 17 or 18. The rest of the known world treats a young woman of this age as a full adult, generally from the onset of menses. I can understand being upset at raping captive women, but calling them "children" is absurd.
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