Allen argues "that rape, enforced pregnancy and enforced childbirth equal genocide." She argues on the definitions from Brownmiller about this paradox Serb equation of enforced pregnancy equals genocide. In her definition, "enforced pregnancy is a method of genocide only if you are ignorant about genetic" (Allen, 87). From the biology point of view, a baby who is born from different ethnic parents will receive half of its genetic from the father and half from the mother. Moreover, the soldiers are most likely to be gone after raping the victims to enforced pregnancy. Cultural wise, the baby will be raised in the mother's culture instead of the father since the women are likely to raise the baby and developed a single parent family. Thus, the father of the baby will have no influence on the baby in any way except half of the baby's gene is from his father. Allen further points out that "This illogic is possible only because the policy's authors erase all identity characteristics of the mother other than that as a sexual container" (Allen, 87). Her idea is that for the Serbs who plan to build up a larger population of their race cannot be doing so by enforced pregnancy and enforced childbirth. Since the victims have their own culture, background and religious, so they cannot be view as individuals who do not have their own identity. You can only erase someone's identity by psychological torture or driving him to become mentally ill so that he does not remember his own identity. However, if the Serbs apply a method of psychologically torture to the women to remove their identity and enforced pregnancy, the father of the baby will have to come back and take the baby after the women gave birth to the baby. He should raise him in his ow...
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...r a man to step up and reveal such shameful experience happened to them. Most female victims are hesitated to speak about their atrocity. For the male victims, it can even be more difficult. Men require the respect of masculinity. If the male victims reveal their atrocity, they will have the fear of being exploited by the media or being looked down by other people. Hence, Genocidal rape does not exclude men.
To understand a massive crime such as genocidal rape, we should analyze every aspects of the situation and be acknowledged about the background of the conflicting cultures. To think critically is an important asset that guides us to the exploration of this world, which we all learn through out the course.
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Rape is an issue that usually occurs to females and is more likely executed by males than females. Nonetheless, a female’s position in rape can and does go further than being the victim. Considering that women can be the perpetrator in this sexual assault, who are their victims? Rape can occur to anyone by anyone. In the same way a female can be a victim of rape, so can a male. According to RAINN, an anti-sexual assault organization, “About 3% of American men have experienced attempted or completed rape as of 1998, an estimated 4.5 million as of 2010” (Who Are the Victims?). However, men are not necessarily the victims of solely female-on-male rape. In fact, the majority of males who are raped are the victims of male-on-male rape and
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...population. He played on the emotional and physically aspects of the females, who are the victims. Emotionally, the maternal instincts of women were used as means to their own abduction and rape. Physically, they were unable to defend themselves against the rape, because they were unconscious during the whole ordeal. This reinforce the purpose of the paper, to inform and create speculation of a crime that could be committed.
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Imagine waking up one day to the thundering of blows given at the door telling you to “open up or be shot down.” It is the Serb police, and they are telling you that you and your whole family had to leave your home immediately. This is how it went for many Albanian people during what some Serb extremists called “demographic genocide.” This was the beginning of what many would call the Kosovo War, and it lasted from March to June 1999. After NATO’s intervention in Kosovo, something strange happened. Now the people being victimized were the Serbs and anyone who was “friendly” to them. In this paper, I will speak about what happened before and after the war in Kosovo.
Rape Fantasies by Margaret Atwood "Rape Fantasies" was written by Margaret Atwood in 1977. Basically, this short story is about the narrator, named Estelle, recalling a conversation between several women during their lunch hour. It starts with one of Estelle's co-workers, asking the question 'How about it, girls, do you have rape fantasies? ' (pg 72) The story goes on with each woman telling their supposed 'rape fantasy' to one another.
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According to statistics, 90% of rape victims are female, and over 98% of rapists are male. Because of our patriarchal society, the majority of all rapes happen to women. A patriarchal society is a predominantly male based society, meaning that men are deemed to be more superior t...