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By Melinda Tankard Reist, published 25/9/2006Don’t gloss over the offence committed by these soldiers against women.
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Many folk, primarily political identities and 'barrow pushers'are conveniently ignoring the growing (hidden for 'their' agenda purposes) statistics of women becoming more violent, & more 'male' like e.g tribadism. This today is more often being pictorialised.
For what?
Male titillation, or female equality? I think more likely as some hint, to add to the bank accounts of publishers and media outlets.
As a Digger I observed some bizarre happenings in my 12 or so years in the ADF. Some of those memories are not pleasant. In my subsequent years as a civilian I have observed and witnessed equally - if not substantially more abberrant behaviour since.
When humans are denied or frustrated in their natural functions, then weird behaviour is exhibited whether in private or in some cases - publicly. It is not exclusive of gender - just visit a women's prison and observe the behaviour there.
When theology proscribes by the relevant deity just how a womans body is to be treated by men, then the issues of equality have been chucked out the window. The Old Testament was possibly sound advice 6,000 years ago, but modern medicine has since given us better knowledge of things.
What then if we evolved from 'matrilineal' as opposed to 'patrilineal' Judeo-Christian forebears? Would we have been spared the Germaine Greers, Emily Pankhurst's and others along the way? Would there have been less warfare waged over the aeons?
No, without doubt most war as such is waged by men against other men who don't have the testicular fortitiude to do the dirty work themselves.
In short to paraphrase old American General Smedley Butler - "War is just a racket, and I've been a racketeer for those corporations playing the game..."
So the more rifles they manufacture to put in the hands of soldiers who need to be fed, clothed, medically attended to or whatever in an army at war - so much the better for the corporation bosses, and the parasitic politicians who feed off them.