Chessmistress wrote:Ostroeuropa wrote:http://www.jqpublicblog.com/one-airmans-view-open-letter-to-the-sarc/
Worth reading for a womans perspective on victim feminism and how it's a problem.
(US Pilot.)
Laws and everything about sexual assault is meant for the greater majority of women, and not for few exceptional women.
That applies to very law and every public policy, always.
Also note that her title is "Airman"
I really think that article is full of ludicrous lies, and especially that part is very insulting for all survivors of sexual assault, for million women:When I walk into a room and people are laughing and having a good time, you are the reason they take one look at me and either stop talking or leave. They’re afraid. They’re afraid of me, and it’s because of you. They are afraid that with all of this “power” I have, I can destroy them. They will never respect me or the power and the authority I have as a person, or the power I have as an Airman, because I am nothing more than a victim. That I as a victim, somehow I control their fate. With one sentence, I can destroy the rest of their lives.
And I think that's even more insulting, because it's also a total reversal of realityWhen you forbid me from going into my male friends room to play X-Box on a deployment with the other people on my shift, you isolate me. When you isolate me, you make me a target. When you make me a target, you make me a victim. You don’t make me equal, you make me hated.
You say 'lies' and 'distortion of reality'. I have a few questions for you on the basis of what you said.
1. I thought that feminism included respecting women's perceptions of reality. Why is this woman's perspective being dismissed?
2. You said the laws aren't for a few exceptional women. What did you mean by that?
3. Are you saying that the fact that this woman is offended that she and the men in her unit are not being trusted to be alone with one another (even though in the military your life can depend on the person next to you and trust has to be built for this to work) is completely unreasonable?
4. Are you saying that on the basis of number three that women in the military should be isolated from men and not treated as comrades in arms?