Chamblee54

There are two features about rape this weekend on the internet. They have different angles.
The first is about “rape trees”. The setting is the US-Mexican border. We have a nation wealthy in money ( so far) next to a nation wealthy in people. The people wealth is trying to export itself to the money wealth, with controversial results.
These people try to cross the desert into the land of plenty. They are frequently treated with cruelty. At some point, women entering the northern country are raped, and their undergarments hung in trees nearby. These are known as rape trees.
The discussion in LastFreeVoice takes a skeptical view of the whole thing. There is a lot of noise about illegal immigration now. Some of what the wingnuts are saying is probably true, but not all of it. Some of the coyotes bringing in illegals probably do abuse their human product. It is a good possibility that some women are raped.
The question here is what to do about it. To make immigration tougher is going to make the players that much meaner. The authoritarian answer is more punishment and enforcement. This reporter cannot see how this is going to help the ladies being raped in the desert.

The other discussion of rape…and what the author calls not rape…is very powerful. It was written by Racialiscious. HT to transgriot for running a repeat of it, which allowed this reporter to read it.
Many women have wretched experiences. As a male, PG cannot imagine what it is like. Rape is much more that the violent act of forced sex. It is a cruel power game, that distorts the lives of millions. The ladies violated in the desert suffer just as much as the ghetto ladies Racialiscious talks about.
In the paragraph above, there is a mention of an authoritarian solution to the illegal alien solution. Is it possible that this same authoritarian power grabbing is behind some of this shabby treatment of women? A key episode in the racialiscious story is when an acquaintance forces his way into her house, and says ” I can do whatever I want to you”. This followed:
“He pinned me in the doorway, forcing me down to the floor barely inside my apartment. Holding my arm behind my back with one hand as I struggled against him, he calmly, deliberately allowed his free hand to explore my body. He squeezed my still budding breasts, then slipped his hands down my pants, taking his time while feeling up my behind. When he was finished, he let me up, saying again, “I can do whatever I want.” After he finished his cold display of power, he walked away.”
What was this young man trying to prove to himself? That he was a man?
Is there a connection between that young man molesting that girl, and the authoritarian types who want to deport twenty million illegal aliens? Or, with the angry shouting of the Jesus Worship church? PG is not smart enough to connect the dots, but suspects there is a connection.
Until the time when people respect each other, we are going to have problems.