Winter Soldier - Sexual Assault / Gender Issues

[noamnety]

Saturday, March 15
9:00AM – 10:30AM Divide To Conquer: Gender and Sexuality in the Military

www.ivaw.org

This is important stuff - if you can't listen to this morning's session, after the hearings the archived talks will be online. It's soldiers (men and women) talking about assaults, prostitution/exploitation of impoverished women as the only source of income around US military bases in some areas of the world, and how the military "takes care" of women who are raped.

[ensho]

1. kicking in solidarity with the women hurt by our military and

our own women in our military. abused by their own military mates and then the male officers try to cover it up and bully, hurt the abused woman to keep her mouth shut. legs open but mouth shut policy.

[BigBluenoser]

2. My wife was in the army and is a "survivor"...

A few years before I met her she was raped by a superior officer. The shit the brass tried to do to her was unbelievable when she had the audacity to want to press charges. Years later the psycops that pass as psychologists in the army were equally unbelievable when "helping" her with her PTSD. Perhaps unsurprisingly she was diagnosed with "Histrionic Personality Disorder" by a female psych(o) after an hour interview a few months ago (HPD is the PC replacement for "Hysteria" aka The woman's psychosis). Thank cripes she is out.

Edit: I bumped this thread from two weeks ago because this is a damn important issue to me.

[noamnety]

3. I'm so sorry to hear about your wife

and depressed that I hear these stories, and I'm no longer surprised or shocked.

The links to the winter soldier panel on "Divide To Conquer: Gender and Sexuality in the Military" is online here: http://warcomeshome.org/taxonomy/term/66 for anyone interested.