Gazing Rabbit wrote:
Clay_Allison wrote:
Boss Out of Town wrote:
Like those schoolgirls in Kenya who were burned alive because the men around them wouldn't let them leave their dorm in their nightclothes.
Chto za khuynyah?
To those of you who do not live around Russians, this translate roughly to 'what the fuck?'.
I agree wholeheartedly.
Welcome to the real world of mysogyny. This one happened only a couple of years ago. I vaguely recall reading of occasions like this in Victorian America and Europe.
The blogs that follow the HP vacine scandal have fun digging into the public statements of the right-wing activists who are fighting it. If you can get past the PR training and push their buttons, you can generally get some snarling version of "Those little whores should just keep their knees together!" The underlying truth, blurted out.
Ultimately, these are ultraconservatives trying to repeal the 20th Century. They don't think women should be having or enjoying sex, and if doing so gets them beaten or raped or diseased, its their own fault and they deserve the punishment.
I will note that this is still not as much hostility towards females as you find in more traditional societies. Female genital mutilation is still practiced in Africa among Christians, Moslems, and animists. The height and weight differences between male and female adults are exaggerated in certain Asian societies because, among the poor, if there is limited food available, male children get more. So girls suffer selectively from malnutrition and stunted growth.
And, of course, in some "modern" social circles in India and China, the male-female ratio is 52/48 instead of 50/50 (+ or - a half percent) because of selective abortion and abandonment of female offspring. One source notes that Chinese orphanages in some provinces are 95% female because of the abandonment of daughters.