Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Is the military labeling rape survivors as “crazy” to get rid of them?
http://feministing.com/2012/04/16/is-the-military-labeling-rape-survivors-as-crazy-to-get-rid-of-them/
The reason why this article caught my attention was because in class we spoke of different ways women are continuously being oppressed. This article shows how women in the military who have serve our country our being victimize. Women who had the courage to come forward about being rape have been labeled "crazy". In the military they consider women who have gone through rape as a personality disorder in some cases the survivors have been kicked out the military and lose all access to their benefits. According to the article, from 2001 to 2010, the military discharged more than 31,000 service members because of personality disorder–and a disproportionate number of them were women. For example, in the army, 16% of all soldiers are women, but women constitute 24% of all personality disorder discharges; in the Marines, women made up 7% of the Corps and 14% of personality disorder discharges. This article is related to the Marilyn Frye article that we as women are caged in whether we want to believe it or not.
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