Die langen Schatten der Vergewaltigungs-Hysterie

“Can you imagine the German Bundestag issuing a formal apology for the Nazi atrocities, but then leaving out the fact that Jews were the primary victims?” fragt Carey Roberts aktuell für die liberalen Feministinnen in den USA und führt aus: “Earlier this summer the U.S. Senate apologized for its earlier failures to approve anti-lynching legislation. The apology notes, `at least 4,742 people, predominantly African-Americans, were reported lynched in the United States between 1882 and 1968.´ The resolution is well-intentioned, but it air-brushes out one essential fact: Virtually all of the victims were male, many of whom were accused of ravishing well-to-do white women. Men so charged were summarily dragged away by the mob and strung from a tree. Once the crowd had gathered, men were stripped of their clothes and their dignity. Many had their bodies riddled with bullets. In the most gruesome cases, the men were burned at the stake.” Warum wurde nicht thematisiert und problematisiert, dass Hetze und Verleumdungen vor allem das männliche Geschlecht trafen - während jede Feministin, die was auf sich hält, noch heute die Hexenverbrennungen vor mehreren Jahrhunderten vor sich her trägt? Weil, so spekuliert Roberts, sonst vielleicht jemand auf die nicht ganz fern liegende Idee kommen könnte, Parallelen zwischen der damaligen und der heutigen Propaganda gegen den Mann als bösartigen Gewalttäter zu ziehen …