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polly7

(20,582 posts)
2. I'm honestly surprised you're unable to grasp 'the point'.
Thu Apr 28, 2016, 02:28 PM
Apr 2016

War affects women and children in horrific ways - not only by direct injury or death, but by poverty d/t losing husbands, sons, fathers - by setting back rights - the right for education, employment, freedom of dress, the ability to walk out the door without being kidnapped and raped/tortured, married off as children, not live as refugees in squalid conditions, and on and on and on - that they've fought for with their lives as they're left under the new rule of fanatics and freaks who see women's rights as atrocities.

The point is - all these military 'interventions' completely, 100% disregard the rights of these women to live in even some kind of dignity and peace - they are the known recipients of long-term and horrific suffering. THAT is misogyny. That any person claiming to be 'feminist' defends this would be laughable if not for the truth of how much these women and children pay.

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