Posted on 12/07/2023 3:04:21 AM PST by Rummyfan
Yesterday, by accident, at night, I read about the barbaric things done to women in Israel by the Hamass terrorist attack on 10/7. I enjoin you not to follow that link, if you don’t want my nightmares last night.
And I woke up and was thinking… well, about a lot of things.
The only thing unusual about the way Hamass treated those women (and children) is that they killed most of them. Unusual, I mean from an historical perspective.
I was thinking of the rape of the Sabines, upon which the founding of Rome rested. Bunch of young braves, (given Romulus and Remus’s origin probably expelled from some community for being outlaws) claims land, then kills all men in a neighboring tribe and kidnaps every woman: crone, pregnant mother, young woman, barely pubescent child, rapes them and sometimes — sometimes — marries them. “Marries” them.
There are certain beats to this horror throughout history. And variables. Whether old women are killed is a variable. How young the age of “women” kidnapped is another. We know for a fact Plains Indians kidnapped girls as young as 6 and subjected them to the same treatment as all women. The horrific beats of this treatment included beatings, starving and serial rapes. It might or might not include the killing of the first child born. (Why? well, because it could be the woman’s murdered husband’s.) And everyone was subjected to this, from very young to very old.
(Excerpt) Read more at accordingtohoyt.com ...
Rape, pillage and blundering.
Were common practices or a long time.
It is Christianity and the modern golden age which are outliers and unusual.
Why leave out the atrocities committed against men...?
“It is Christianity and the modern golden age which are outliers and unusual.”
Post-reformation, sure. Things didn’t get off to a great start.
Great writing by Sarah Hoyt. Thanks for posting.
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