Her Father Shot Her in the Head, as an ‘Honor Killing’

[Yo_Mama]

57. This is a stupid reply, and offensive to those who care about the millions of women

trapped in very vicious cultures.

I am a woman. I find your attempt to divert from the topic rather sick and rather offensive.

This is not spreading bigotry. This is COMBATTING BIGOTRY. This is combatting a culture that not only tolerates teaching men that they should do such things, but honors and supports men when they:
- Force their daughters into marriages,
- Beat, starve and often kill their daughters if they try to evade the marriage,
- Give their children back to husbands who are brutally abusing them,
- Tolerates sexual abuse of the young generally,
- And tolerates and encourages abuse of homosexuals, which pretty much goes right along with oppressing females in cultures.

I could go on. I could discuss FGM, in its most vicious forms. I could discuss pure neglect of female children so extreme that sex imbalances are obvious in demographics. I could discuss cultures which think that an unattended woman is fair game. But I won't.

Not all of these cultures are Muslim. The reason why this sort of thing matters to all women is that it seems that, historically speaking, many societies have evolved cultures that treat women viciously. Of course slavery was just about universal also. Women are generally aware that the rights and freedoms we have won in western democracies are an historical oddity and not deeply rooted in culture.

You are posting on a politically progressive website that exists for the purpose of trying to evolve and support political and social forms that treat human beings BETTER.

The original post should matter to you. If it doesn't, ask yourself why.

As for me, every time I see a post like yours on DU I remind myself that the battle is not won - not even in western democracies. If it had been won, you would be too ashamed to do this, and you aren't.