I was hoping some of the more passionate feminists would join. Alas so far mostly people who do not see anything wrong with this situation are attracted to this thread. No matter, their position should be seen by all.
It's not that people see nothing wrong with the situation, but rather that they see something wrong with your framing of it. That seems obvious from the replies so far. Maybe if you actually read the replies instead of dismissing them, and tried to look at the context in which this happens you'd see the problem.
I did not know there were a good context for violence against women. I learn something new everyday...
There you go again, distorting and dismissing what is being said because it's not what you want to hear. Again, no one here is advocating for violence against women. But you're not really helping them as much as you think you are if you ignore the context in which this happens. You know, countries that (sort of) protect women's rights at home, while sacrificing them for power and influence abroad.
So the
context is: the type of violence I am highlighting here on this thread happens because of
countries that (sort of) protect women's rights at home, while sacrificing them for power and influence abroad.... are what? Responsible? Do not do enough to help the condition of those women? Maybe the countries that
(sort of) protect women should invade those that do not and impose their views?
We agree it is better for any women to live in a country that
(sort of) protect women's right than a country that
does not. Feminists should agree with that too and yet do nothing and do not speak up.
How old is the US as a country? 238 years. Let's add (approximately) the old european empires and their colonization/influences upon other countries. 300 years? Nah. let's push it back to 500 years in the past to be sure. I really do not have the historical evidence they were responsible for the brutality we all can see here right now BUT... Let me help you arguing against me
Slavery and torture were the old evil empires' favorite tools among other things to impose their religion and economical straitjacket. The countries that were invaded for centuries, like traumatized children, are stuck into repeating the abuses they went through, generations after generations. But only to their own female population of course. We, all of us, should blame the old empires and the US for their (sort of?) violence on women now. Not their own women as they are (sort of) protected. This is why I am wrong as I could not see the bigger picture. These men are not responsible for burying their wives, sisters, daughters alive and stone them to death in 2014. The foreigners who invaded them 300, 400, 500, (600?, 700?) years ago are the real culprits. Yeah.. I think I got the
context right this time
p.s.: I usually turn blue when arguing against myself for some weird reason