Bosnian war rape procedure
anecdote · Yugoslav/war testimony ·
retold in 3 talks
When Serbs occupied a Bosnian village the standard procedure was to rape girls in front of their fathers, then castrate the father, humiliating the woman to break the pride of the whole community. This was civilized Europe, not the Middle East.
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As told 3
“girls were as a rule raped in front of their fathers. the idea was the father should cheat”
“Many of the girls who survived brutal rapes killed themselves later... found that there is no one who is ready to listen to them.”
“There is almost nothing more violent than to have your most intimate dreams... brutally imposed on you from outside.”
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one story, many jobs: the ideas this anecdote is deployed to argue, one tally mark per use (an idea page shows the same relation from the other end, as its shelf of stories)
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Sergei Pankejeff1Quentin Tarantino1Hermann Göring1Michael Elan1Russell Brand1Peter Sellers1Norman Vincent Peale1Trevor Noah1
alongside works
Every retelling 3
When Serbs occupied a Bosnian village the standard procedure was to rape girls in front of their fathers, then castrate the father, humiliating the woman to break the pride of the whole community. This was civilized Europe, not the Middle East., illustrating humiliation through the woman,civilized Europe
Survivors of brutal rapes in Bosnia killed themselves after rejoining their community because no one listened, illustrating the absence of the big Other (symbolic registration)., illustrating big Other
Žižek contrasts two types of rape victims: an assertive woman who is physically hurt but not psychologically shattered, and a woman who secretly fantasized about passive victimization, for whom the rape is the 'greatest violence' because it brutally enacts her shameful inner dream., illustrating the greatest violence