[lbo-talk] women torturers

[joanna bujes]

My father, a communist jew, was caught/imprisoned/tortured by the iron 
guard (fascists) in Romania during the second world war. One of the 
things I remember him telling me about that episode is that "women are 
the worst torturers," meaning most cruel. This is my anecdotal reply to 
the hypothesis that this generation of women in the military are worse 
than previous generations.

There is no reason to think that women are gentler or saner than men. 
Subjected to the same crap, they act in the same crappy way. There are 
some things they're a good bet for. For example, I've always told my 
kids that if they get lost, they should ask a woman for help, not a man. 
Otherwise, I've had perfectly horrible women bosses (far worse than the 
men) and I've dealt with perfectly horrible women in my life.

Joanna