Where can I find resources on militarization, the "tentacles of war culture" and...

[Andi]

...the health of women? I have to write a paper for my Women's Health class that deals with the effects of militarization on the health of women. I want to explore how militarization and the permeation of war culture into civilian society have impacted the health and well-being of women?

It will be considerably easier, I expect, to find information on how civilian women in other countries have been affected by continued military presence in their cities and towns, but if I can find the resources, I’d really like to explore the way in which the “tentacles of militarism,” as Dr. Denton-Borhaug refers to them, have affected the health and wellbeing of women in America. I found it very interesting in class when we discussed how there is less metal in bras nowadays because of the need for metal during World War II, and now, bras are less supportive. I never had any idea about that, and would never have thought to question how two life-giving parts of my body aren’t as well-attended to because the resources used to support them have gone, instead, to weapons used to bring death and destruction. That really bothers me, and I wonder how many other ways we are short-changing our women while sending the big bucks out for big guns.

I'm not sure what I will find, but I do want to explore how this permeation of war culture may aid in legitimizing violence against women.

At the very least, I suspect that the needs of women with regard to their health are neglected because of the priority we place on building our military and normalizing the (excessive) presence of the military in our daily lives.

I'm having a lot of trouble finding reliable sources, and I am rather frustrated about this. I want to do a good job on the paper, but it seems that there isn't much research out there.

 

[philosoraptor knows]

Japanese tentacle porn.

 

[Kris W]

Who cares how anything effects the oppressor class? War= women get to live and men are forced to die.

In Africa women face rape, beatings and scarring. Non combatant boys, men and old men are murdered. Often in the most horrible manner.

Violence against women? Don't make me puke, men suffer and die in war, women get to watch like the decadent citizens of Rome who enjoyed gladiator combat.

And being short changed? OMG we can't spend a trillion or two on women because we need to defend ourselves against really bad people. But hey we can still spend a few billions on women while totally ignoring the needs of boy's and men.

How about the thousands upon thousands of homeless men suffering from mental abuse?
Or the thousands of men wrongfully imprisoned? What about the millions of men who are victims of domestic abuse?
Ohh that's right in your gyno-centric world view if males need any help we are supposed to crawl into a whole and die.

 

[Rickey]

Men have fought every war there's ever been, Millions of men have died defending their homeland as well as defending other countries and your Woman's Health class is concerned only about how War may affect women's health. Unreal. *Me Time, It's all about me, I'm gettin mine, need I say more.

I can't even believe you would dishonor the people that gave their Youth and or lives some 60 years later so some twit like you could turn it into something to be used against men.

What a sacrifice less metal in bras. How about living in fox holes for months at a time in below freezing weather and being shelled.

I swear Hilter would be proud of you.

******* Does anyone else even matter to you other than (What's in it for women)? What new ways women are victims? This way we have every right to be selfish, self-centered victims, believing we're entitled to more, more more.

Do u even compare the 20 year olds that fought the Vietnam war to some delusional suffering women endured? Was their a shortage of nailpolish?

Being forced to kill human beings or be killed by a draft. I don't remember hearing of women receiving letters from the government.

I can't believe how sickening the education system has become. Feminism must be a wonderful thing, do they also pass out anti-depressants.

This is exactly how the freaking Feminist brainwashing starts. Re-write history, No, no men didn]t really suffer fighing all those wars and we women actually wish they'd let us into combat. Ever notice how (women in combat never seems to be a pressing issue for Women's Groups.)

So by the time your 30 yrs old with a feminist ideology and a massive victim complex and with an impression the world owes you because of suffering you've never actually done, your likely at some point going to hook up with some poor moron guy get married start a family and the whole thing falls apart in a few years when you file for divorce because you can't even function in a healthy marriage because all your feminist ideology that does nothing but distort the truth.