Intercourse, by: Andrea Dworkin - Feminish

in clandestine prisons had a peculiar characteristic: Jewishgirls were violated twice as often as non-Jewish girls. ” 19Therapes, in common with many racially based rapes, were held tobe innocuous, but the logic that led to this incomprehensionwas especially pernicious: “There are no gas chambers in Argentina,and this leaves many with a clear conscience” ; 20“I wasnever able to understand how the horrors of the Holocaustcould diminish the significance of the violation of Jewish girlsin clandestine Argentine prisons. I was never able to accepthow recalling and recording the activity of the Holocaust industrycould render it seemingly unnecessary to confrontopenly the publication of anti-Semitic literature in Argentinaand the fact that such literature is studied in the military academiesof Buenos Aires. ”21 Racially motivated rape is considerablyprotected by the misogyny that finds the rape of women assuch no atrocity at all. The violation of a whole people givesthe most irrefutable evidence of what is otherwise hidden: therape and the racism combined and inflicted on a woman. Witha mass-murder atrocity, the rapes are drawn big in blood; thesadism in the rapes is unavoidable because the intention of therapes— to destroy— is irrefutable; rape cannot be explainedaway by personality; it is not an individual event or tragedy; thewoman did not bring it on herself as a distinct personality or asa metaphysical slut; the great justifications for raping and prostitutingwomen are not credible even to those who blamewomen for rape and prostitution. The racism of the sexual assaultis clear because a people is being attacked; the presence ofmen, massively, in the carnage as victims is the proof. Once therapes are, for the most part, gender-specific and on a smallerscale, the misogynist, who embodies the normal mentality in aculture that accepts rape as normal for women, cannot see the