Women are taking the fall!!!

[loyalsister]

Images of Jessica Lynch, Lynndie England reflect US opinion of war

“You couldn’t pick a better example to illustrate what a difference a year makes,” said Robert Thompson, professor of media and popular culture at New York’s Syracuse University.

“How the war has been going is being portrayed particularly by those two women,” said Jack Lule, professor of journalism at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. “As we’ve come to question the war and question what it means for our own values–we have an image of a woman who raises those very questions......
http://www.bangladesh-web.com/view.php?hidDate=2004-05-29&hidType=RIN&hidRecord=0000000000000000009830

Eve keeps getting framed!! When something goes horribly wrong they demonize women! I knew we were seeing Lynndie England more than the men when this scandal first broke for a reason.

[jpgray]

1. A woman in this role is more novel than a man

Plus you have this nation's weird repressed sexual fixations. As an editorial put it, when we make pornography a billion dollar industry yet freak out at a flashed titty, there is something seriously schizoid about our responses to this stuff.

[loyalsister]

2. Yep

At the March in April we discussed an expectation of a backlash. Well, here it is!!! Depicting women as excessively violent AFTER they organize the largest March in history.
It was convenient that these photos exist, but no accident that they appeared in the media as often as they have.
The timing of Lynndie's evolution into a methphor of this war has everything to do with our March on Washington in April!!