This is something that's been on my mental list of articles to write. Someday... "Rape in the U.S. Military" Just searched rape U.S. military in wikipedia and just a mention of Okinawa, not the horrific statistics. "Crime and U.S. military" (safer article to start with to avoid AfD) showed nothing as well. Put a note on feminist wikiproject (i'm flustered dealing with crashing computer, new one in mail, and occupying DC, or a day or two anyway, just long enough to convince them -- well, let's not talk politics... but I do have some sexist pig peace activists I'll probably be running into... one of whom has a vanity article on wikipedia... don't get me started... Carol in dc On 10/4/2011 12:28 PM, Sarah Stierch wrote: http://www.forbes.com/sites/shenegotiates/2011/10/04/more-dangerous-to-be-a… _______________________________________________ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap

Can you find sources for this article Carol? We all know that exist, but I don't see many people talking about it. _____ *Béria Lima* Wikimedia Portugal <http://wikimedia.pt> (351) 963 953 042

On the whole I think our military history articles aren't great at dealing with sexual violence, on a number of dimensions. For instance, there was a large amount of well-documented rape and sexual mutiliation of Vietnamese women by U.S. forces in Vietnam, but the Vietnam War article doesn't cover this. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War#Women_in_Vietnam You will be relieved to know that is has more paragraphs devoted to the American nurses who served in Vietnam than to anything about Vietnamese women. Apparently this is because, on the American side at least, "many men reported that having women in the field with them boosted their morale. Although this was not the women’s purpose, it was one positive result of the their service." I'm sure you'll agree that a bit of morale-boosting is far more worthy of comment than other services provided by nurses, e.g. medical care. Sexual violence by Americans in Vietnam is also missing from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_rape - though of course that article does adequately cover http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comfort_women - evidently rape is better-covered when it is Asians doing the raping rather than being raped. One wonders why. ;-) _______________________________________________ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap