Hi there Godfather. My comments are between yours.
TheGodfather Says: May 31st, 2006 at 12:24 pm
Without a doubt there are a lot of factors involved but i think that one may be the perception of women being the passive and men being the active part in a sexual relationship which also contributes to child molesting.
Austin says:
This is true but unfair to the men who have suffered abuse. One thing that I’ve been on a soapbox about is how differently people react to females that sexually abuse their children. Society makes excuses for them. They are given a psychiatric diagnosis to explain their crimes but when it comes to men they have only one name for such a crime: man. People don’t even flinch when they hear that a man has abused a child or hurt another person. But they flinch and start saying, “what has happened to the world” when they hear of a woman sexually offending a child, especially her own child. It is not that I don’t believe in Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy its that I believe it’s another way to make excuses for the behavior of women offenders. If we were talking strictly about male perps studies of this disorder would not have nearly the backing it does.
When we see women offenders in a whole different category from male offenders we just about give the go ahead for them to continue offending. Look at the famous teacher who raped that young boy. She was sent home on probation. She was given chance after chance after chance. Why, because she is a woman. Each chance she was given she offended again. The court made it possible for her to offend again because they viewed her as a woman and not what she was, a child predator. No one would have thought twice about sending her to jail if she had a penis between her legs.
Godfather says: But it’s also the Patriarchy in a way. You often hear from anti-faminists the gender stereotype of the loving kind-hearted woman making up a dichotomy between the genders that doesn’t exist. The role of the bad guy is attributed to the males (females only if they act not according to the rules of the patriarchy).
Austin says: This is a conversation I've had with a friend of mine over in big foot country. Men are seen as either the villain or the savior while women are seen as the calm, loving peacemakers. Our main conversation last time was that when we see pictures or status of angels they are usually white women with blond hair and deep blue eyes. If they are warrior angels they are depicted as white males. I told her that the Bible doesn’t give the angels a gender in most cases but in society we give the warrior angels the male gender and the female angles the peacemaking attributes.
It is ingrained in our society that men are one way and women are another. We can see it in religion, in the work place, on TV, in books and in most every part of life. One of the troubles with this is that men who suffer the same as females end up being seen as weak or the crime isn’t seen in the same light as it would if he were female. These extremes let too much slip by. They let too much slip by and they facilitate predators who can hide behind what they carry between their legs.
Godfather says: Though there were female supervisors of concentration camps also who weren’t short of their male colleagues concerning brutality and sadism.
Austin says:
I had no idea that there were female supervisors in the camps. Actually, I’ve always thought of the Nazi’s as men. As a matter of fact, all the documentaries I’ve seen show only male war criminals being hunted down. In my entire life I’ve never heard of female’s being part of that genocide. Might I ask where I can find more info on this cause I'd sure as heck like to read it? The Holocaust is something that my family doesn’t speak much about as they have connections to the camps. I’ve said a few times in this journal that my heritage is African and German. The German’s in my family went to the camps because of their religion. Being blond didn’t save them from that.
When are you gonna write some more in your journal dude? :0)
Austin
Hi Austin!
I agree with you. I think that one problem is the deflection from behaviour which is considered to be “normal”.
A woman behaving like men are supposed (”allowed”) to do (go out late at night, drink some alcohol, engaginging in conversations with strangers) and gets raped is to blame for it. If she’s a loving housewife standing in her kitchen and cooking for her husband and her children who will come home from work/school soon gets raped and is rightfully considered to be not responsible (or at least not considered a slut).
Same with men who become victims of sexual abuse since men/boys are not supposed to be victims of this kind of crime. But you know that people love to be ableto put everything in it’s category so that they don’t need to think about it.
While the women played a minor role (not fighting in the war or being members of the SS) they were still involved. There were so called “Blockführerinnen” (the pendant to the “Blockführer”). Female supervisors could be observed in camps for women or at least responsible for women. You may use the term “Blockowa” in google. “Blockowa” is the Polish expression for “Blockälteste” who were subordinated to the “Blockführerin”.
Another book is “Camps de Concentration. Crimes contre la personne humaine” or also called “Konzentrationslagerdokument F 321″. This book is a compendium of testimonies from 1945 (for the Nuremberg trials - that’s where it got the designation “F 321″ being evidences RF-331 and RF-333) but i don’t know if it’s available.
There’s also a novel called “The Reader” from Bernhard Schlink but i didn’t read that one.
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Well, i didn’t have much free time lately but i didn’t abandon my Blog.