January 2008 Archives
Congo war rape victims | PRIs The World
Most of us have probably heard about this before, but The World did a really well-done story on it today.
An 11 year old gang raped for days. A 10 year old who suffers from incontinence as a result of a brutal rape. Women raped for the sole purpose of terror in the Congo. When and how did women's bodies become objects of war strategy? Just to warn everything, I think this is a really important story to listen to or look up, but it's hard to hear. Often the most important things are.
So last quarter I got really excited about being able to write a paper on ANYTHING I wanted. Of course, I went to comics. I did an examination of the way women are drawn in mainstream comics. What I found was really stuff I already knew: women are drawn as sexualized and disciplined bodies, especially women superheroes, to keep them subordinate to their male counterparts. It has illustrations and everything! I think it's pretty interesting, but that's me. Now if I can just figure out how to post it or, more reasonably, put a link where you can download it to read...
http://www.mediafire.com/?3hlxdmyqtf2
