War is a Women’s Issue

Source: https://www.marchonpentagon.com/single-post/2018/04/17/War-is-a-Womens-IssueBy: 

Cheryl Biren

Date: April 17, 2018

Imperialist War is an atrocity and atrocities make up the whole of the atrocity. When they cannot be suppressed, the Pentagon and corporate media work in tandem to convince the public that the rapes, the massacres, the torture, the targeted murders of civilians, the sexual exploitation of girls and women are isolated incidents while insisting that these wars of aggression are just. Ultimately, the devastating aftermath of U.S imperialist war is deemed to be the fault and responsibility of others.

Classism, Racism, Sexism, Misogyny and Xenophobia serve as the grease that keeps the U.S. war machine running. U.S. imperialism also necessitates that the people are numb to the full-scale decimation of the living Earth.

Poor and working-class women, women of color, women who are immigrants, female refugees, women in conflict zones and those who live where U.S. military bases loom are especially harmed by the U.S. government’s fixation on world domination.

The UN Security Council reports that women suffer disproportionately during and after war. Can we expect to end war without recognizing the inherent role misogyny plays in it and how that misogyny runs through class, racial and ethnic lines?