Word: violent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...YORK CITY in 1971 there were 18 convictions for rape. Perhaps as many as 10,000 New York women were sexually abused that year in the most violent, degrading manner conceivable, and yet only 18 men could be found guilty. How could this happen? Superficially the blame lies with legal statutes (recently changed) which demanded "conclusive" corroborating evidence. But the true answer--fantastically complex, multi-faceted--can be found in Susan Brownmiller's portentous examination of rape, Against Our Will...
...most devastating and massive acts of rape occur in the midst of war--violent times, times when machismo dominates. "Men who rape in war," asserts Brownmiller, "are ordinary Joes made unordinary by entry into the most exclusive male-only club in the world. Victory in arms brings group power undreamed of in civilian life. Power for men alone. The unreal situation of a world without women becomes the primary reality...A certain number of soldiers must prove their newly won superiority--prove it to a woman, to themselves, to other...
Rape is a game of conquests, a fight for superior standing in a culture that values those on top and scorns those on bottom. Even in the case of homosexual rape in prisons, as Brownmiller points out, it is "a product of a violent subculture's definition of masculinity through physical triumph, and those who emerged as 'women' were those who were subjugated by real or threatened force...
...pair of concerts at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles. In real life, of course, Elton has never swung a baseball bat in anger. "What I have played is a game called rounders," said the bespectacled singer. "It's the English equivalent of baseball and not nearly as violent. None of that sliding into bases and trying to get the guy with your cleats." With 110,000 tickets sold to his rock doubleheader, Elton seemed more concerned with his sequins than his slide anyway. His uniform's cost? "Two thousand," said Elton. "But that's just a ballpark...
...committee sponsored by Catholic bishops in 1974 printed a typical roll call of contemporary villains: shoplifters, trashers, blue-collar time-clock cheaters, white-collar expense-account padders, tax evaders, political bribe takers, perjurers, economic exploiters, sexual revolutionists, the maritally unfaithful, pornographers, irresponsible mass communicators and those responsible for violent crime. But a mere listing does not do justice to the sense of disease and malaise that is in our hearts, the disappointment and disgust often felt between generations as moral standards are challenged or forgotten, the bewilderment and despair many feel over their loss...