• DessertStorms@kbin.social
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    How the fuck is their age relevant?

    Does the person who wrote this think old women generally don’t get raped?
    Or that the rape of an old woman is somehow worse than that of a young one?

    “Russian troops raped women while their families were forced to listen” gets the same story across, sensationalising victims’ details for clicks is gross.

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      1 year ago

      It’s to portray Russian soldier as people who doesn’t even respect 80 year olds. Similar to when someone kills an 80 year old to steal a bag when all they have to do is take it. The killing is completely unnecessary and shows cruelty. And same thing here, the article is designed to show how cruel Russian soldiers are who doesnt even leave 80 year olds alone.

      That’s my interpretation.

      Otherwise yes, of course young women are raped much more then 80 year old wimen. That’s why it’s considered extra cruel, and that’s why they are pointing it out.

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      I also find that odd. It makes it almost seem as if raping elderly women is something that requires extra mention. So that nobody assumes that we are talking about the “normal”, “understandable” rape of younger women. It’s seriously fucked up.

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    Not an excuse but the Russian population has been brutalised for a few hundred years and they are culturally warped in a manner known clinically as “Fucked in the head”.

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      A traumatized dog is a dangerous dog and has to be put down. I’m glad to see that the Ukraine army is doing as such.

      Once the war is over, every Russian man that took part in it must be neutralised, it’s the only way. Rapists, and those that allow such atrocities, do not deserve to live and must die for the good of others.