tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31439825.post7323395471175979369..comments2023-04-15T06:37:42.992-07:00Comments on Engage: Conversations in Philosophy: Women's Bodies and the Fields of War: Japanese Comfort Women and the Legacy of CassandraJoseph Oroscohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04950358209722798820noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31439825.post-58276036162124931952007-06-14T13:20:00.000-07:002007-06-14T13:20:00.000-07:00Candace: I'm not sure what to say about the drive...Candace: I'm not sure what to say about the drive--innate or constructed. I think there is a biological drive but that what we desire is probably heavily informed by our cultural influences.<BR/><BR/>What I think is interesting is how the U.S. military condones the use of sexualized imagery (by looking the other way on the possession of pornography by field troops). I think what might be going on there is the harnessing of that biological drive for a socially constructed purpose (organized warfare).<BR/><BR/>The problem then is that once such a strong connection is made between sexualized imagery and violence (and fear) then it can be acted out in other times. Just a thought...Joseph Oroscohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04950358209722798820noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31439825.post-51864766014480492262007-06-14T11:00:00.000-07:002007-06-14T11:00:00.000-07:00Interesting connection between greek mythology and...Interesting connection between greek mythology and the present! <BR/><BR/>More interesting to me is that intense need for sex - is it an innate need or do we just think we need to have it? If soldiers didn't think they needed to have sex right then and there, the Japanese brothels would have been useless.<BR/><BR/> Many soldiers return home from war and abuse their partners sexually or have a different approach to finding pleasure. This is another interesting concept to me. One of my friends had this experience recently and it really threw her for a loop. It was as if her partner was acting out his experiences in war in his relations with her. <BR/><BR/>I am still thinking a lot about this particular issue - it's been bothering me. <BR/><BR/>Any ideas?Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08442560819144135882noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31439825.post-86479170789223842402007-06-01T00:49:00.000-07:002007-06-01T00:49:00.000-07:00Along the same vein, here are my thoughts on the c...Along the same vein, here are my thoughts on the cause of school shootings.<BR/><BR/><BR/><BR/>In school, packs form and young people vie to be leaders of the pack or associated with leaders. In schools, athletics reign supreme and those who participate in the most public athletic conflicts are perceived as leaders of the pack.<BR/><BR/>Those who don't fit into this coveted niche become targets of bullying. I see bullying as pack behavior, picking at or mobbing the weak. In an athletics worshipping environment, all sorts of people might be considered weak if they were not athletic and did not fit in.<BR/><BR/>In high school, and even college, hormones are flunctuating and raging. A young male, bullied to the limit, hormones raging, picks up a gun and shoots fellow students. He is saying "my balls are bigger than yours". Anybody can shoot a gun, not just a star athlete. Today's weapons are equalizers. <BR/><BR/>(However, guns used in hunting animals do not discriminate weak from strong, eliminating natural selection as a species strengthening tool, when humans hunt)<BR/><BR/>If society weighted other school subjects and activities equally or of more value (as seen in later productivity or wage earnings) than athletics, school shootings would eventually cease.<BR/><BR/>I didn't explain it well, I know. Perhaps you get the drift.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31439825.post-84841261710781432772007-06-01T00:19:00.000-07:002007-06-01T00:19:00.000-07:00Weapons. Now we, the women, can arm ourselves aga...Weapons. Now we, the women, can arm ourselves against such violence. War is a male hormonal act anyway. Irrational. Rape is a continuation of hormonal violence. The appropriate and only response is violence or...perhaps.....a good neuter job.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31439825.post-80773943536464757942007-04-26T08:51:00.000-07:002007-04-26T08:51:00.000-07:00"Is there anything today that prevents us from con...<I>"Is there anything today that prevents us from continuing the legacy of Cassandra?"</I><BR/><BR/>The short answer is no, not practically speaking. There are of course various laws in place all around the world regarding this issue, some of which even prohibit and/or condemn this behavior. However, feminist thought suggests that as long as a core assumption of patriarchy exists - that women are less than fully human, i.e. objects - then the idea of 'woman-as-spoils' will not be beyond the pale where it belongs. Instead, the legacy of Cassandra will indeed live on.<BR/><BR/> - DennisAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com