{"id":8498,"date":"2016-11-18T14:56:02","date_gmt":"2016-11-18T20:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/?p=8498"},"modified":"2017-01-21T10:38:07","modified_gmt":"2017-01-21T16:38:07","slug":"normalization-1996-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/2016\/11\/18\/normalization-1996-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Normalization 1996-2016: Words matter"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sex gets used a lot of ways–and a number of them are not about shared pleasure and connection. I have written about political sex scandals<\/a> and the way generations of youth get shamed<\/a> about their sexual norms. Though it may be facile, I find myself noting “the more things change, the more they remain the same” — the issues change a little bit but the use of sex as a tool of power and control, not so much.<\/p>\n

This is sex as political football. Sometimes the games have the veneer of lightness, like a game you play after Thanksgiving dinner. Today, though, I was writing about the use of rape as tool of war.<\/p>\n

In 1996 the International War Crimes Tribunal focused on rape\u00a0 in the Bosnian war, and prosecuted people involved. Discussion of one of those prosecutions was here<\/a>, and this quotation gripped me:<\/p>\n

In a reply to his accusers, Mr. Mejakic, who along with others under indictment remains safely in Serb territory, described Ms. Cigelj as being old and unattractive; he added that he wouldn’t have leaned his bicycle against her, much less raped her.<\/em><\/p>\n

And then I looked at this<\/a>, from 20 years later, last month:<\/p>\n

Donald Trump on Thursday adamantly denied claims he forced himself on a People Magazine journalist more than a decade ago, responding to her accusation of sexual assault by saying, “Look at her … I don’t think so.”<\/em><\/p>\n

That’s today’s brief reflection on normalization, 1996-2016.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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