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<blockquote data-quote="Kathy813" data-source="post: 112938" data-attributes="member: 1967"><p>Even though wife beating is illegal, it is unfortunately still a fact of life for many women even here in the enlightened USA.</p><p></p><p>I have never understood why the word feminism has gotten such a bad rap. It simply means "a doctrine advocating social, political, and all other rights of women equal to those of men." </p><p></p><p>Anyone that has doubts about advocating womens rights needs to read Khaled Hosseini's <em>A Thousand Splendid Suns</em>. His description of the treatment of women under Taliban rule in Afghanistan is utterly horrifying up to and including childbirth by c-section without anesthesia. </p><p></p><p>Women in Saudi Arabia cannot drive, leave their houses by themselves, or travel without written permission from a husband or father. Yet, the USA considers this country to be an important ally. Can you imagine the outcry if these things were done to a race instead of a gender? </p><p></p><p>Somehow, because it is only women that this is happening to makes it okay to consider them the good guys (politics make strange bedfellows indeed).</p><p></p><p>It makes me sick. </p><p></p><p>~Kathy</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kathy813, post: 112938, member: 1967"] Even though wife beating is illegal, it is unfortunately still a fact of life for many women even here in the enlightened USA. I have never understood why the word feminism has gotten such a bad rap. It simply means "a doctrine advocating social, political, and all other rights of women equal to those of men." Anyone that has doubts about advocating womens rights needs to read Khaled Hosseini's [i]A Thousand Splendid Suns[/i]. His description of the treatment of women under Taliban rule in Afghanistan is utterly horrifying up to and including childbirth by c-section without anesthesia. Women in Saudi Arabia cannot drive, leave their houses by themselves, or travel without written permission from a husband or father. Yet, the USA considers this country to be an important ally. Can you imagine the outcry if these things were done to a race instead of a gender? Somehow, because it is only women that this is happening to makes it okay to consider them the good guys (politics make strange bedfellows indeed). It makes me sick. ~Kathy [/QUOTE]
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