Pardon for the Michael P. trick, but here are some reminders of what women have been capable of -- all much worse than what we know of in Iraq, it behooves us to say. jks
http://www.scrapbookpages.com/DachauScrapbook/DachauTrials/IlseKoch.html
http://www.history.ucsb.edu/faculty/marcuse/classes/33d/projects/naziwomen/irma.htm
http://www.auschwitz.dk/Women/Bormann.htm
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/6142/belsen.jpg
--- joanna bujes <jbujes at covad.net> wrote:
> 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
>
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