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LiberalAndProud

(12,799 posts)
Tue May 24, 2011, 11:25 PM May 2011

Has anyone see the documentary "Girl 27"?

It's a horrifying documentary of one underage girl's sexual victimization by MGM. It certainly has given me food for thought, as I ponder the similiarities between women in the military today and women in the chorus line 80 years ago. There is still a fearsome power structure to overcome to achieve some semblance of justice in cases of institutionalized rape.

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Has anyone see the documentary "Girl 27"? (Original Post) LiberalAndProud May 2011 OP
No actually ismnotwasm May 2011 #1
I own it. BlueIris Dec 2011 #2
I wonder where I can find this? xmas74 Dec 2011 #3
It's on Netflix PeaceNikki Dec 2011 #4
I have Netflix xmas74 Dec 2011 #5
So you did! (same subject line even) LiberalAndProud Dec 2011 #7
I haven't seen this, but I'd like to Sarah Ibarruri Dec 2011 #6

ismnotwasm

(42,405 posts)
1. No actually
Thu May 26, 2011, 12:33 AM
May 2011

I've been avoiding it. I should watch it.


My daughter was in the military. She develped a very hard personality that lasted for quite sometime, and stayed very professional with the men in the military, most of whom she fondly referred to as 'swinging dicks'. So they, in turn thought she was a 'bitch' of course. Now she's a stay at home mom who make her own diapers and is raising chickens and says things like "I love the hippies" (because she see how ecology and economy can mix.)

She went in at 18 without a degree. She had a hard time getting equivelent promotions, (she's considered a decorated combat veteran) She was a E6 after 9 years, or would have been, but she got out because they were going to send her right back to Iraq so that would have been 2 straight years without her son. (single mom) The army told her if she reupped, that wouldn't happen. They lied.

BlueIris

(29,135 posts)
2. I own it.
Sun Dec 11, 2011, 02:47 AM
Dec 2011

IIRC, I started a thread on this at the Old DU. I'm happy someone else has seen it.

What I still find most amazing is the effort the documentarian made in connecting with the victim. It sounded like the labors of Hercules, but he was successful in getting her to (voluntarily) share her story.

xmas74

(29,739 posts)
3. I wonder where I can find this?
Sun Dec 11, 2011, 05:08 PM
Dec 2011

I have some time off of work now and it'd be nice to watch something between scrubbing down the house.

xmas74

(29,739 posts)
5. I have Netflix
Sun Dec 11, 2011, 05:19 PM
Dec 2011

and I have an afternoon without my daughter around. (I believe she's still too young for some subject matter.)

I will definitely have to check it out!

LiberalAndProud

(12,799 posts)
7. So you did! (same subject line even)
Tue Dec 13, 2011, 02:22 PM
Dec 2011

I find that the Feminist group had been traded for some other group in my favorites list over there.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=341&topic_id=15110

Thanks for mentioning this, BlueIris. I enjoyed reading the thread.

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