About the violence

"pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it."

The majority of veterans in jail today are there for violence against women and children, a fact that has persisted since the Bureau of Justice began surveying imprisoned veterans in 1981. Yet the incidence of veteran violence against women does not carry over to other crimes.

military trainers intentionally use crude, sexist epithets to harden and turn young male recruits into desensitized killing machines and to demean women recruits. Use of hateful marching rhymes and taunts of "pussy," "sissy," "girl," "bitch," "dyke" and "faggot" are common in training.

Carrying over the pervasive woman-baiting in military training into active duty, male soldiers pigeonhole their female counterparts, according to many women soldiers, as "whore," "bitch" or "dyke" - a bitch if you refuse sex, a whore if you do sleep with soldiers or even have one boyfriend, and a dyke if you have women friends, are bright, or don't like fellow male soldiers. This last "branding" keeps women from bonding with each other, according to many women vets. Peer pressure encourages both sexes to go along with the harassment of women soldiers and the culture of silence and impunity about rape.

I think the violence that is promoted in the military training generates a series of disturbances on a personal level in soldiers, and that affects the behavior they have with women. They see everything as a target, and the woman is an object that should earn more, I think abuse is the product of their thought of superiority, do not know respect, because they were trained for war, its strategy is to win or die.


In the case of common people that it hasn't been subjected to a series of behaviors that justify abuse and mistreatment they do in others. It is much more complex shred what goes through the mind of a rapist of women and children, goes beyond behavior implemented by a superior in the army, as in the book the color purple.


Celie is a girl who has been raped by her father and she was pregnant for the second time with his child. Celie's mother is quite ill and after cursing Celie, dies, leaving Celie alone to face her father. Celie then turns her attention to protecting her sister, Nettie, from her father's sexual advances. Celie soon marries Mr.(later called Albert) after her father strikes a bargain with the older widower, and Celie finds herself in a loveless marriage, caring for her husband's four children and being regularly raped and beaten. Celie becomes fixated on Shug Avery, a glamorous blues singer who is her husband's mistress. Several years later, Celie eagerly accepts the responsibility of nursing Shug back to health, thus beginning a lifetime of friendship and love between the two women.