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yeah if you aren't wearing a burka, you can get raped, but it IS your fault because thats the societal penalty for walking around without wearing a burka. Why, then if you wanted to not get raped would you go around without a Burka on and blame someone else?
rape is NEVER a womans fault, no mater if she wears clothing or not, it is not a womans fault. ever.
As much as I disagree with how red255 chose his words, there is some kind of logic there.
If woman dresses like she wants to get raped then...you know?
Not that I condone with the
cultural practice you mentioned.
I don't even understand why a
religion teacher would be showing you that :S
I kind of disagree... quite a bit actually. If a woman wants to wear what she wants, it doesn't mean she's looking for sexual attention. Sometimes I wear skimpy things because I feel that clothes* can be really stifling. No woman dresses to get raped-maybe to have fun, but not to be forced into a situation that arose because somebody could not control their sexual impulse.
*at least modest clothes
okay this is getting off topic, but even if a girl wears her bra and underwear outside it still does not give ANYONE the right to rape her.
people are starting to scare me with the 'rape' is a woman's fault thinking....
anyways i didn't make this thread to discuss honor killings.
i didn't mean to offend people in china, the reason i didn't google this information was because the info could be from some rich person who doesn't really know or feel what its like to be in this situation for woman/ or men in china.
That is why i wanted to ask in a forum, i didn't mean to make this religious or about feminism.
I find peoples options more interesting.
but this blew way up... and for some reason people are always trying to find a way to make anything i say or write turn bad.
i'm feeling worst than ever >.>
I'm sorry you're feeling worse but, my dear, it's not the world's job to make you happy. The opinions you asked for are making you feel worse, and your unhappiness and pessimism are bringing the world down around you. Sure, you can lament whatever horrible thing in the world, but it only makes you blind or unappreciative to what is good and improving. If you want to be cheered up, then cheer yourself up. Understand that there is suffering in the world, but realize that your own contributes to it. There is suffering in the world, but there are also people working to improve it. If you are able to make yourself happy, then the strength you used for yourself can be applied to their efforts as well.
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So my religion teacher made us watch a movie on 'honor killing'. Pretty much woman in the middle east are killed because they refuse to marry the one the parents have chosen for them, so they kill them. Also if a woman is raped, they kill her since its apparently her fault.
Anyways today she mentions abit about woman in china, and how your only aloud to have one child. If a woman gets pregnant again she has to get a abortion. Some woman keep the baby in secret and then give it to the orphanage, that in her preservative she says is like a concentration camp.
I'm wondering a few things
1. If any woman on baka updates or men from china, can tell me a bit more about this, or their own experience.
2. I'm a woman, and i feel like the world is a terrible place.. someone lighten my mood?
In my country what your teacher said is a crime.
is that a good or bad thing O.o
Does it matter? We're talking about sensationalized information anyway. You get a similar image looking through the world with Fox-colored lenses.
I'd recommend avoiding the "I won't google something because the information could be provided by some random rich interest group" line of logic if your solution is "ask anonymous and unverifiable people on a random forum" their opinion instead. That strikes me as a rather odd decision overall. Getting the bare bones of the situation first is at least helpful, even if there's less "humanity" or whatever involved. I mean, you don't expect the world expert on, I don't know, 1300s China to have lived in China during the 1300s. That doesn't mean the information is less accurate, though, it just means it's not channeled through one of the more obscure methods of anthropological research.
On topic and not about Rodney Bewes: the world has changed a lot in the last half century. If you want to be happy, be optimistic about what has already been accomplished and what that means for the future, not pessimistic about the things that are still a problem or seem to fail to coalesce to your personal beliefs.
Yes! I wish you could just be my personal adviser, because your word choice makes me drool.
AnjuxKuran! you seem like a littl'un, don't be so distressed if you don't want to be! For as many people there are working against happiness there are just as many working to preserve it! Yes, the world may seem dull and set for ruin inside the walls of a classroom ever more darkened by the light of a teacher's movie projector, but instead of informing her students of what is happening in the world and what has improved and is continually improving, she left the light off. But, you can still turn it back on, or make the effort to turn it back on.
Better than sitting in the dark, only mulling over what you cannot see.
