Quote from: mina.m->-bleeped-<-ie link=topic=57336.msg359605#msg359605 date=1237029932
South African men seem to have developed a really scary culture of violent dominance over the last 20 years or so, and gang violence is pretty-much endemic here. Not to say that everybody is in a gang, but that same kind of dog-eat-dog mentality is widespread, where you constantly have to prove yourself through violence. It's male dominance taken to an extreme, and obviously the thought of a woman not "wanting" a guy "as a man" is a huge threat to his ego, which is what that entire dominance is based on. Likewise, "men dressed like women" undermine that idea of dominance, and they have to be destroyed.
Really?Just in the past 20 years? So all the violence and ideas like that didn't come from the Dutch, Cecil Rhodes and Omm Paul, etc? To be passed along through Botha and the struggles over apartheid?
I find it rather a common sentiment in lots of places. There is no beat-down quite so terrible as to have your own body violated by someone else's genitalia. None. And yes, I know that from experience. Killing is much kinder.
I see the same sorts of beliefs here as well. Not as openly displayed, but certainly not a small minority opinion. "Hey, honey, I can cure you of your lesbianism. You just need a good screw from someone like me." Yeah, right.
Cultures that thrive on violence, even as they make some attempts to ease the violence, seem to find the answers for everything in violence. This isn't just about ZA. The Afghan Parliament just rammed through an anti-rape bill as well. It basically says it's impossible to rape any woman, anywhere in Afghanistan.
And USA rape laws have only been made tougher in the past 25-30 years. We revel in violence and how easy it is to force one's will onto another through such means.
Nichole