The rape and brutalization of any womenâincluding white womenâin any country is not a "response" to colonialism, oppression, slavery, poverty, war, murder, and starvation.
It is done out of hatred of women and the pleasure of female pain, degradation, and humiliation. It is attempted to be justified through cultural relativism, through religion, by blaming women for male violence, blaming women for the actions of male systems of governence, blaming women for being in the wrong place at the wrong timeâor around the wrong men. In times of war, the rape and brutalization of women demonstrates male behavior in the absence of rules and law.
It is depraved, shameful, disgusting, and absolutely unforgiveable. It does not matter which men are doing it to which women in what place. Rape is never justifiable.
As a Jewish woman, would I shame Jewish men for raping the wives of Nazi men? Yes, I would. Would I shame black male slaves for raping white women? Yes, I would. And I would shame white men for raping black women, Nazi men for raping Jewish women. And I would shame male Israel soldiers for raping Palestinian women and Palestinian males for raping Israel women.
The rape and brutalization of any women is not an act of liberation, resistance, decolonization, or freedom from oppression.
If your measure of the depravity, immorality, and disgust for rape hinges on what men are doing it and what women they are doing it to, you are a rape apologist. That is sexually predatory thinking, that is male supremacist thinking, and that is disturbing behavior. It is wrong to rape.
Female liberation, now.
