Rape Is Not An Inevitability of WarDoes your Wednesday needs some sobering research on rape as a tool of war? The employment of sexualized violence in conflict is often a choice and an explicitly or implicitly endorsed policy, not just a random crime. It feels Sisyphean – stopping sexualized violence in war? Actually, I get letters from men in prison who really understand rape because, in the absence of women, they’ve been used as women. I use the term “sexualized violence” because that’s what Gloria Steinem uses.