Anzac exclusions: making a nation ignorant of rape

POLITICAL IGNORANCE

Perhaps one point at which he does go too far is in condemning soldiers and Anzac-lovers as responsible for their own ignorance (whereas ignorance about the meanings of war has been actively cultivated through the Anzac myth).

In What's Wrong With Anzac? Marilyn Lake wrote in 2010 that to question and critique Anzac Day is "to court the charge of treason."

Scott McIntyre has certainly been condemned for 'treason', where betrayal of national value and a responsive "we are so offended" is used as a mechanism to actively shut down debate about issues of importance on how we live, how we identify and how we relate to one another as a nation by shutting out the possibility of thinking about the connections between masculine warrior sensibilities and rape. And that furthers the entrenchment of an ignorance on an important issue of gender of which Australia ought to be well-informed.