And your point is, Vesta?? If men get raped, that is an act of violence and control. Men don't get pregnant as a result of rape. The fact is that the Peace Corps goes to shit hole countries. They do little to nothing to protect their workers. Should she have an armed guard at all times?? Probably not. However, I stand by my statement.
As far as your cousin, good on him.
My point is, when someone signs up voluntary for service, be the Military, Missionary or Peace Corps, the people need in the military to be well trained in their jobs and the hazards they may face. The other civilian volunteers need to be just as well trained not only in self defence but the customs of where ever they go.
Operation Tail Hook comes to mind here for the Military, who would have thunk anything like this could happen.
There is a darn good reason woman have to be twice as prepared going into any situation even in their safe home town.
Am I sexest about this, you bet your Ass I am. ----The big hold over from my generation was the expression " Lady's don't fight", as a mother of 2 females I do not want to bury one of them thinking that at least my daughter died a Lady. Better to be a live non lady then a dead lady.
The very least the Peace Corp or Missionary services can do is to take the females just out of college and before sending them off to do good in their life is to train these innocents on self survival. The woman go forth into the world with high ideals and work their butts off others with the illusion those they help will appreciate them, never harm them. Bull Shit, they have their heads in the clouds if they expect to be looked at in any way different then the people look at their own woman.
How many Missionary's have ended up in the soup pot of those they have ministered to for 30 years in the last 300 years ???
In an ideal world the woman that wish to volunteer should go through boot camp same as the military. If for some physical reason they cannot make it, they should not be sent to places that demand tough woman, strong and capable, ready for anything. Their best work for those that have a need to help others should be done on American soil and not in some area with things they have never known to exist or know how to handle them.
Missionary's that travel the globe should go first to Israel and spend a year learning how the woman there survive in the military. ----
Was it not just a month ago when Missionary's who had sailed the globe handing out bibles were killed aboard their sailboat ??? They so believed God would protect them they had no weapons aboard, they in 15 years had never felt the need for any, God helps those that help themselves.
It is the liberals that head out not having any idea of what the real world outside America is composed of.
People in the service go to ports a shore and see things they never knew existed. So we turn woman from a Ivy League college loose in the same port, The worse Slums they ever saw was in NJ from the window of the Amtrac heading home for a polo game and the country club set.
People have rights they say until they are attacked in a country that believes the only ones with rights are the strongest and most violent among them.
What can the Peace Corp do to protect its female workers???? Not a hell of a lot so far, any more then a company anywhere is expected to protect its female workers. They can offer a morning after pill, suggest a D&C after a rape, what more is required of them ?????
Somewhere in here comes personal responsibility of the worker. They know the threats, they understand any and all problems that may come up with the job, What are they asking for, workmans compensation
for becoming a victim of a crime ????
Most all comunities world wide that took the road to becoming Pacifists have been destroyed since the days of Greece..
One can as we have seen in American History go forth and do good works but carry a Peace Maker at ones side.
If you have a child that is an idealest and desires to go into the Peace Corp, make sure they have training in self defence, send them to the Scouts camps to instill confidence and hard wire their brain for survival.
Some woman go into the Peace corp as shrinking violets, they want to help but have no survival instincts, training or confidence in themselves. If one must drag these girls even at the age of 16 to go into the Scouting camps, or take don't send the females to firing ranges---------Oh I cannot harm an ant---but they can be taught to fire a gun at a piece of paper. A condition for paying for their college works quite well
We teach our male children how to survive, if we don't they end up in jail. Our girls we pass over, some cockamamie idea that a male will protect her.
Times have just come full circle from the woman that shoot at Natives wanting to attack the home stead to a passive society that expects the government to protect them.
I would not finance a girls spring break in Mexico unless she had training in self defence-----Heck I would want her to have training just to go to NYC.
Just crazy old me
my male children learned lessons in life, my girls had to be taught to survive, in 1974 when we drove through Louisianan the Neapolitan law still ex sisted in that state. Check it out, if married a woman could not sell property given to her by in hearentice without the permission of her husband, However the husband could sell her property without her knowledge.
Way off topic, I hope that this remuneration all about and every what way will be forgiven.
