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Posted on 2005.08.18 at 13:57
Tags: feminism

"Suddenly his finger is on my mouth, stinking of horse and tobacco. I open my eyes. A stranger's hands expertly pulling apart my jaws. Eye to eye. Then with great deliberation he drops a gob of gathered spit into my mouth."

I read this in Salon today, about an anonymous diary describing mass rapes in 1945 Germany.

It made me think back to getting jumped a couple of weeks ago, how angry I was at a total stranger coming up and touching me. The sheer hate in this passage...no words.

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antdevamp at 2005-08-18 21:38 (UTC) (link)

Long streak of Atrocities began with...

The Nazi party announcing a new policy of discouraging Jews and Germans to date. If a German woman was caught dating a Jew, she had to stand there while her date was placed on all fours, with a large sign around his neck, proclaiming him to be a 'Mongrel Jew staining the Aryan Race.' He had to smile for the photos with the Nazi officers and the police too.

I saw a photobook of the collected campaign photos. The women almost uniformly turned away from their men and their shame. There were too many signs it was time to go...I can't forgive anyone who remained through that.

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lilahwild at 2005-08-18 22:57 (UTC) (link)

Re: Long streak of Atrocities began with...

I think what's so unsettling is that this is the kind of juvenile bullying behavior you find in aggressive children -- it's horrifying coming from "adults."

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