So a while back I found out about the typical age range of comfort women. And I decided that I disliked this term even more once I realised that the euphemism ran deeper than I assumed.
It sucks that in phrasing like this, the term "comfort girls" doesn't really convey the message much differently and I'm not thrilled at the idea of erasing the gender-basis of what happened but I have made a commitment to myself to refer to them as "comfort children" instead. I feel like it's a way of getting one step closer to acknowledging the gravity of what really happened.
[CW: CSA]
So a while back I found out about the typical age range of comfort women. And I decided that I disliked this term even more once I realised that the euphemism ran deeper than I assumed.
It sucks that in phrasing like this, the term "comfort girls" doesn't really convey the message much differently and I'm not thrilled at the idea of erasing the gender-basis of what happened but I have made a commitment to myself to refer to them as "comfort children" instead. I feel like it's a way of getting one step closer to acknowledging the gravity of what really happened.