Military Review English Edition March-April 2015 | Page 26
(Photo by Staff Sgt. Michael Beck, South Dakota National Guard)
Sgt. 1st Class Kelley Crane of the South Dakota National Guard represents the soldier demographic in a silent portrait representing
victims of sexual violence at a press conference 13 April 2012 hosted by Working Against Violence, Inc., Rapid City, South Dakota.
As we should expect, such abuses happen primarily
at the lower levels, at the young levels of leadership,
though the abuses of more senior leaders of the recent
past may come more quickly to mind. The culture that
sets the conditions for this kind of abuse of power is
deeply rooted in language. If we call a man a “stud”
because of his sexual activities, F