child of war victims pt 2
I'm thinking about my Dad and his character. He would have kept running every time he met a rapist. He probably only got raped a time or two in the start when he was innocent. He certainly developed some strong fighting skills so who knows how long he went begging from the germans and fending off the gays who would crop up? What percentage of that army was gay is something we can't know. Not even by examining today's military who might cough up the info. However, it's reasonable to assume they had a similar ratio to civilian society and that means there'd be gay pedophile soldiers threatening little blond beggar boys.
Maybe my innate phobia of rape in my youth had more to do with some transferred fears we didn't register? I certainly was not innocent about it as a danger from a very young age. Nor was I left at all innocent about the biology of sex, or the anatomy of the adult body. However, it was made clear that sexual activity was for adults in adult relationships and not to be gone near by us. I suppose that's about as good as you could teach a kid when you're worried.
My mother probably also had some experience with rape. How many women in the city got raped during the war I can not say but if not her, then someone close would have come home from it.
We really could prevent a lot of rape if we could bring peace and orderliness to the world. Personally I think the fastest way would be to blow out the tree of knowlege on their Edenic lives. That is, send in the Google. Dropping tablet devices and suspending solar wifi and internet connections on remote areas would swiftly enact changes, but only if we made the things so common they weren't worth stealing. In some places the ruling war lords would collect these, but even having their soldiers check it out would inject knowlege.
I know there's cons. Porn, for one. Some folks never recover from their encounter with internet porn, but most get tired of it after a year. Another is all the script kiddies, hackers, and trolls that would flood our online world. Heaven save us, I know, it'll be awful.
But you see, they're the brothers we need to reach, so we need to cope with it while they grow and learn. Eventually, part of that population starts creating solutions and before long most of them are too busy getting behind the solutions to be a problem. It's not easy, but it's faster than this war crap we keep failing at. It's probably less violent too, although the violence might come closer to home than we like. It is certainly a war, but it must be a war on ignorance, not people.
Maybe my innate phobia of rape in my youth had more to do with some transferred fears we didn't register? I certainly was not innocent about it as a danger from a very young age. Nor was I left at all innocent about the biology of sex, or the anatomy of the adult body. However, it was made clear that sexual activity was for adults in adult relationships and not to be gone near by us. I suppose that's about as good as you could teach a kid when you're worried.
My mother probably also had some experience with rape. How many women in the city got raped during the war I can not say but if not her, then someone close would have come home from it.
We really could prevent a lot of rape if we could bring peace and orderliness to the world. Personally I think the fastest way would be to blow out the tree of knowlege on their Edenic lives. That is, send in the Google. Dropping tablet devices and suspending solar wifi and internet connections on remote areas would swiftly enact changes, but only if we made the things so common they weren't worth stealing. In some places the ruling war lords would collect these, but even having their soldiers check it out would inject knowlege.
I know there's cons. Porn, for one. Some folks never recover from their encounter with internet porn, but most get tired of it after a year. Another is all the script kiddies, hackers, and trolls that would flood our online world. Heaven save us, I know, it'll be awful.
But you see, they're the brothers we need to reach, so we need to cope with it while they grow and learn. Eventually, part of that population starts creating solutions and before long most of them are too busy getting behind the solutions to be a problem. It's not easy, but it's faster than this war crap we keep failing at. It's probably less violent too, although the violence might come closer to home than we like. It is certainly a war, but it must be a war on ignorance, not people.