4 thoughts on “William Collins: Global Summit to End Sexual Violence in Conflict

  1. The really bizarre bit is the contention that there is some official “blind eye” to such things. The well ordered military of established states prosecute. The message is to terrorists , militias disorganised rabbles unlikely to be listening. But of course non of this is about actually bringing more of the world into civilised governance . 
    It is as Mr. Collins says: ” And finally, Hague departs entirely from the topic of sexual violence in war to expose as clearly as one could wish the true motivation for the Summit, that “women must have a seat in every forum of decision-making“.  But what is going on here is the promotion of the feminist political agenda using war rape as a lever.”

    In much the same way FGM and Forced Marriage in countries far away will in some way be resolved by more female shadow cabinet ministers and female board members in Companies and even more  improbably by more women working in STEM. 

    In a related media “event” non of “our girls” were returned in Nigeria ( nor punishments for those who burned alive school boys) as the feminist grandstanding did not include any forming of  a corps (perhaps of female politicians and FTSE board members) and going to Nigeria to get to grips with the problems of a war torn society. 

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  2. Before I say anything else, and without getting too personal, may I say that I consider Hague to be one of the most odious little squits ever to have his arse slapped by a misguided midwife.

    With that out of the way I do wonder where this frothing gender hatred springs from. I don’t subscribe to global or even semi-global conspiracy theories – most folk utterly lack the necessary ability to co-operate and are incapable of keeping even their own most heinous infidelities secret. Once the veil drops and the nonsense about all men being violent, all women being loving and loaded to the gunwales with empathy is accepted as debunked we’re left with something systemic rather than biological. Something in the current human system of governance seems to be facilitating and encouraging ‘feminist’ men and ‘feminist’ women to blind themselves to true equality and from genuinely caring for all. Perhaps the increasing shallowness and mediocrity of government and organisations since the middle of the past century is linked to the vastly increased ‘pace’ of life and the new ‘god’ – vacuous consumerism? I don’t know, obviously, but whatever it is, society requires some serious building works before it will function healthily again.

    There is another fly in the theory. Dismissing the obviously insane relatively small council of ‘leaders’ of the movement, this anti-equality ‘feminist’ wave is characterised by a large body of otherwise sane and sensible people unfathomably falling into some mutual ecstasy of ‘jazz hands’ and evangelical support for a clearly inadequate and baseless ideology. I’ve seen a similar process once personally, when I (as an atheist, for kicks) attended one of those rather enthusiastic southern American church services, and the air was so thick with an infectious weeping and wailing that even I found it difficult to both breathe and refrain from “praising the lord”. The experience suggested to me that perhaps the Nuremberg rallies functioned the same way, with all of those collective sieg heils being largely involuntary and as puzzling to the audience then as they are to us all now. We haven’t quite seen Wembley filled with saluting feminists – yet – but, if an individual is shallow, driven by consumerism and in need of a comfortable gang in which to hide and relax all pretence to personal effort or accountability then current ‘feminism’ must be an attractive proposition into which to surrender. Perhaps the wizard-worthy membership success of modern anti-equality ‘feminism’ was in its offering total world domination for the ever-after while simultaneously setting the standard for membership at something so low as the applicants’ mere gender?

    What Hague’s excuse though still escapes me…

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  3. Yes,rape during war is a terrible thing and needs to be prevented,but it is still better than murder or torture, which civilian men usually suffer during conflict. Civilian men are far more likely to be killed or tortured in a conflict than civilian women. Therefore,preventing the killing of civilian men or unarmed male soldiers is even more important than preventing the rape of civilian women and needs even more attention and funding,if truth be told.

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