http://www.tampabay.com/blogs/alleyes/2009/11/terrorism-thats-personal.html Just appalling stuff. The images speak for themselves. Makes my blood boil with rage
These stories are pathetic and all too common in these countries. This is another story worth looking up.....she was maimed by a member of an elite Pakistani political family. http://abcnews.go.com/Health/victim-acid-attack-commits-suicide/story?id=16011971#.UFecibKPWZg Treating women as second class or possessions has to stop.
That link...wow. All those women were from Pakistan, Afghanistan...countries that also indulge in "honor killings" by any male members of the family. Note the common motivating theme.... A woman accused and convicted of adultery - They have no mercy.
When I see these things I just cannot believe the utter inhumanity. I am well aware that all societies have their issues. But these men in these cultures make a willful attempt to destroy the physical beauty of a woman if she refuses their advances or as part of a family dispute, etc. Seems like women in these places have to always be on guard because you never know. I recall reading another story where men rode up on a motorbike and sprayed acid in the face of two young Afghan sisters who were on their way to school. This stuff is just the bowels of depravity.
Just had to post it when I saw it, I was so infuriated. I couldn't imagine doing this to a woman, no matter the reason. She doesn't like me or want my hand in marriage, boo hoo, let me throw acid and scar her for life, blind her, make her unattractive in my mind for any other man to ever want her. This is a sickness of the mentality that looks at women as property.
That's what makes it double hard. She loses her beauty - no man will go near her, and she has to suffer with it the rest of her life (and seeing it if she gets to keep her eyesight). Can you believe Pakistan had to put a limit on acid purchases? These women have no voices. (Much like the removal of the clitoris and often times labia to ensure that a woman will not stray if her sexual pleasure is removed. Just incomprehensible). And yet GQ, if any of us women here were born there, THIS is our reality. Reject a man, lose your face.
Its absolutely surreal stuff that goes beyond my world view of human interaction. I remarked that in Western cultures things happen within the frame of domestic relationships and can end in violence and even homicide. But here there is the idea that you will pay for your actions if you dare cross that line. That these men would do something like this with such reckless abandon, case after case, gives the impression they have no concerns about being severely punished for such actions.
This shit is no surprise. Its common knowledge that women are not worth anything in the majority of foreign countries. What you should be angry about is how the U.S. Govt foreign policy relations are with these nations. America pumps Billions in foreign/military aid into these Govts/Regimes and the American public refuses to acknowledge it. But ignorant Americans will scream bloody murder when the Govt tries to provide healthcare for its own citizens. American hypocrisy at its best.
It's disgusting. Not gonna sugarcoat it, a lot of people out there are fucked up. Beheadings for dancing, strapping bombs to children for your religion. It's disgusting.
That is the added component right there. This is done and the punishment is often negligible for the crimes committed. So there is no incentive for this kind of behavior to stop if some man in these cultures feel a woman has bruised his ego in whatever capacity. I just cannot begin to wrap my head around such barbarity.
They're just playing the global realpolitik game homey. Power, influence in global affairs no matter the cost. We give Egypt a billion dollars each year, other Arab regimes hundreds of millions and they murder our ambassador and burn the flag. There have been reports surfacing that the ambassador was in fact raped and sodomized before being killed. We have heard nothing about it hear in America at all from our government, its like its being kept under wraps from the American public. Fucking disgrace. Like I've said before when the fuck will we learn.
This turns my guts inside out. What gets me is the lack of outrage in the civilized world. We show more compassion on the mistreatment of animals than we do for fellow "human beings".
This bugs me, people in the world are starving or being tortured, while you have a bunch of babbling idoits picketing KFC over the rights of chickens.
That is horrible and reprehensible, but personally I think women are treated like pieces of meat over here a lot, too. As absolutely disposable and with no human heart or dignity. Men just carry on their merry way with no conscience as to the heartbreak or casualties (whether it be just the woman and her broken heart, or the woman and her children), in their wake. Women are treated like pure sex objects - nothing else. When they ask for something different (the women - they ask for love and companionship, or some kind of human respect) - you would be surprised at what men try to get away with and go off scot-free without looking back. To me it's ALL part of the same problem - this is just a horrible outward demonstration of the way men completely utilize women for their own pleasure and dispose of them when they are of no "use". No respect whatsoever. It's ALL the same. All it takes is a little more cultural conditioning and you have an acid-throwing monster.