Thursday, October 23, 2008

Gitmo Soldiers


After recently doing some research on Guantanamo Bay, i came across an article that surprised and disgusted me. It portrays the women soldiers at Gitmo to be inappropriate with the detainee, giving them lap dances, seductive talks and watching them undress. It made me wonder about how they could think that terrorists who are willing to kill thousands of people at a time would give into this: "Does anyone in the military believe that a coldblooded terrorist who has withstood months of physical and psychological abuse will crack because a woman runs her fingers through his hair." The fact that it is happening is bad enough on the reputation of US soldiers, but what about women in general?

For years women were subjugated from men, and it took the strength and idealism of these women to receive the right to vote, for example. After years of comodification from men, these women make are doing it to themselves. Acting the way they do with these random men, it gives a message to the whole country that this is an ok thing for women to do with men to get something from them. Although the article states that it has not accomplished anything, why does the commodification go on, and in some cases self-inflicted?

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