Nobody likes to talk about rape, but it seems morally absurd not to considering that it seems to be everywhere you look; from frat row to death row, from the Vatican to Nickelodeon, from ICE to the IDF, from Trump to Platner and back to Trump again. I know that my own abuse has rendered me a bit hypervigilant, but you don't have to have CPTSD to know which way the wind blows, and you'd have to be dangerously anesthetized from the neck up not to recognize that anyone and everyone with any modicum of power seems to be copping a feel and most of them are getting away with it.
Speaking as an anarchist, I strongly believe that it is precisely that power which is the defining factor here and it's a factor that most mainstream feminists conveniently ignore as they aim high for the glass ceiling. American capitalism is and has always been a colonialist enterprise built on a foundation of conquest, and sexual violence has been at the cornerstone of military conquest going back to the Golden Horde.
So, it should come as little surprise that rape was the favored tool of the western civilizers who built the Pax-American leviathan, from the sainted Catholic Conquistadors who turned the "New World" into a chattel brothel by sexually trafficking the women and children of every tribal nation they "discovered" to our blessed Founding Fathers who used the routine defilement of their own slaves to keep their plantations in line.
Today, this fine tradition of predatorial manifest destiny continues perhaps most brazenly with our client state of Israel's conspiracy to remake the Middle East in their own decidedly European image while their American masters continue to hemorrhage international influence with levels of unhinged debauchery that put Caligula to shame.
In the shadow of the Epstein Files, a series of leaks have been unleashed from inside Israel's Sde Telman Military Base, transformed into the nation's largest prison camp during the latest stage of Gaza's final solution, exposing a dirty IDF secret that Palestinian activists have been talking about for decades.
It turns out that sexual violence has been a downright routine tactic used by Israel's Zionist gestapo against the Palestinian people for decades, to the degree that entire generations of young men and women inside Gaza and the West Bank carry scars that occasionally mutate into the kind of black rage and suicidal nihilism that tore through 21 kibbutzim on October 7th.
The response to this revelation from the Israeli public has been one of shock and outrage; shock that anyone cares and outrage over the arrest of a handful of baby-faced IDF rapists by the Israeli government to save face on a world stage that has grown weary of their barbarism. Crowds of Israeli citizens, including elected members of the Knesset stormed Sde Telman and other glorified rape camps, not in defense of the victims but in defense of the predators, demanding the immediate release and reinstatement of men caught on tape savaging restrained detainees with jagged foreign objects.
This is what real rape culture looks like. It isn't merely a culture of permissiveness towards downright routine sexual violence; it is a culture of permissiveness towards the carnal whims of institutional power itself and I for one believe that the only way to truly grasp this evil is to grasp the nature of rape itself.
Studies based on the firsthand accounts of both victims and offenders alike show that the act of rape is an act of power above all else; a crime of violence, degradation, control and intimidation. In other words, rape is a very visceral form of governance. A means of extreme biological authoritarianism.
This is why pretty much every category of marginalized people experience far greater rates of sexual violence than the general public, this is why children of every gender are raped by predominantly heterosexual predators, and this is why male prisoners are frequently raped by equally heterosexual correctional officers. These aren't acts of sexual excess or blips on the radar. This is institutional power taken to its natural conclusion. The Conquistadors understood this and the IDF does as well. Sexual violence on a massive and systemic level is the most effective way to break resistant communities and turn the pieces left behind into compliant, pliable citizenry.
This is also why an overwhelming percentage of powerful men can be connected to credible accusations of sexual assault. It is not a coincidence that Israel uses the very rape culture it participates in not just to violate captive Arabs but to get away with it as well. Jeffrey Epstein was revealed to be suspected by our own Federal Bureau of Investigations of being an Israeli intelligence asset right around the time one of his former wingmen, current president Donald J. Trump, launched a war pretty much guaranteed to fail in Iran, a war which blew the doors wide open for Israel's longtime goal of raping and pillaging their northern neighbors in Lebanon.
This isn't a conspiracy. This isn't a cabal of adrenochrome slurping ghouls in Mardi Gras masks. This is what happens when entire institutions of power are built on a foundation of sexual degradation. This is what happens when generations of children are carefully groomed from a young age never to tell anyone these institutions deem to be a trusted adult 'no.' This is what happens when the state is allowed to create an 'allowed' class in order to maintain their monopoly on the use of force.
Parents are allowed. Cops are allowed. Priests are allowed. Politicians are allowed. White men in crisp uniforms with shiny medallions pinned to their barrel chests are allowed. Allowed to tax, allowed to detain, allowed to defile...
Five of our last seven presidents are accused sexual predators because they were allowed. 250 goddamn years of My Lai massacres and Abu Ghraib photo-ops told them that the most powerful man on earth is allowed to violate whatever or whoever the fuck he wants. After all, none other than Thomas Jefferson has been pretty much proven to have fucked the people he called property and isn't he some kind of a goddamn American hero?
I am an anti-imperialist and an anarchist for the same reason that I am a committed feminist. Because when I was a child, two men granted the authority of demigods by the Catholic Church raped me in the upstairs bedroom of a smalltown rectory. Their uniforms and the institutions they represented told them and many others like them that they were allowed access to every square inch of a screaming five-year-old girl just like the uniforms of the IDF tell young virile Europeans that they are allowed access to every square inch of "the Orient."
I stand with their victims shouting, 'no means no!' with battered fists raised high.
No means no more conquest of anyone's indigenous soil. No means no more prisons where the color of your uniform designates the predator from the prey. No means no more hallowed institutions where predators hide like serpents in the heat of the limelight. No means no more broken fucking childhoods, yours or mine. No means no more empires, no more kings, no more gods and masters, no more rapists and the states that empower them.
No means no, and no means fuck you I won't do what you tell me.
Peace, Love, & Empathy- Nicky/CH
Soundtrack: Songs that Influenced this Post
* Killing in the Name by Rage Against the Machine
* Caught a Light Sneeze by Tori Amos
* Smack My Bitch Up by the Prodigy
* Lasting Friend by Samia
* Dethroned Emperor by Celtic Frost
* Dicknail by Hole
* Me and a Gun by Tori Amos
* I Like Fucking by Bikini Kill
* Family Man by Nitzer Ebb
* My War by Black Flag
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