I watched a CNN special and these women from the Middle east were burning themselves to protest their hopelessness with their abusive husbands. What the H__ is that all about ? How is that changing things for you to burn yourself ? I would rather think that making him one of the girls ( if you know what I mean ) would alter his thinking a bit. Im sure he would treat me better and just think of the new job opps for him singing soprano in the local opera house.
2007-12-30 07:29:37 · 18 answers · asked by ? 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
" young woman on earth ". Im not pretending that. I have self abused way 2 many times as well as my sisters and GFs. But death by kerosene isnt self abuse, its self torture. There is a difference.Self abuse allows you to live on and pity yourself tomorrow. Death by fire is THE END and not the answer.
2007-12-30 07:53:26 · update #1
Easier said than done in countries where the men have all the rights and the police look the other way when a woman "accidentally" dies of burns because the in-laws don't approve of her or her dowry payments are late.
I'm old enough to remember a time in the United States when the police would tell a battered wife to go back to her husband and be a little more sexy so he wouldn't get so angry at her. Rape was frequently treated as the fault of the victim, and investigations were seldom done in anything other than a cursory manner.
Thanks to the hard work of some very brave women, we've come a little bit farther than than here in this country. Women in other nations aren't nearly as fortunate.
2007-12-30 07:36:04 · answer #1 · answered by Wolfeblayde 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
They have lived torturous lives and that is the only expression they know. There medium of communication and thought.
I think compassion would be a good response after the initial shock of absorbing the information.
There are practices in the middle east directed towards woman that would be an eye opener for you to study.
It might give you pause concerning religions, wars, and events in this world. Or, you can continue to swallow..." hook, line and sinker," the dribble that is feed from far left colleges and much of the tainted in liberal arts, the brainwashed associated press.
2007-12-30 07:41:12 · answer #2 · answered by Randy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Were they burning to death? Maybe it wasn't a protest so much as an escape. Those poor women are trapped. It's not illegal to abuse your wife over there, I don't think, and if it is the law turns the other way. I mean, for heaven's sake they break the necks of rape victims and hide their bodies because they dared to get raped and sully the family honour! These women have no help and they can't just leave their husbands. I think that if I was living over there like that I might just burn myself to death to in order to escape.
2007-12-30 07:34:45 · answer #3 · answered by Blue Eyed Christian 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
To call attention to their plight on a world-wide scale.
A woman castrating her husband will only bring Lorena Bobbitt jokes and being called "insane." The world has a chuckle and moves on.
A woman setting herself on fire because her situation is so hopeless and she can not find an acceptable way our or even aide for her situation-that will draw attention and an outcry.
2007-12-30 07:34:42 · answer #4 · answered by ultraviolet1127 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Think about this you are a little dog and your owner is a 6foot
buff man. You have no power...you are kicked punched and thrown across the room you have no voice at all if you speak you just get hit more... you live through the pain of death every day.. whould you go on liveing in that kind of setting. or kill your self.
2007-12-30 07:39:13 · answer #5 · answered by cnhasty21 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It's all they know.
Different cultures do things differently.
It makes sense to them. Just like things that make sense to us they might think of as crazy.
Women commit suicide in the US all the time. They also drown their children in bathtubs or leave their newborns in dumpsters.
It's all the same when it comes down to it. Just different cultures.
2007-12-30 07:37:03 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The problem is that his family would stone them to death or drown them in a swimming pool. When you have absolutely no rights there are few avenues to take.
2007-12-30 07:41:19 · answer #7 · answered by bocasbeachbum 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
First Iraq now Iran there is wish for Democracy is the u . s . a . going any incorrect way? Bo needs to no longer have warm canines with the Beaters of the folk of Iran.yet status up for people is a controversy for him.
2016-10-02 21:46:44 · answer #8 · answered by coughlan 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They suffer from the deepest despair and hopelessness and don't see any other way out of their situation -- indeed, there may not be another way out for them, sadly.
2007-12-30 08:09:45 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
So they kill themselves to protest abuse?
Irony at its' worst.
Lol this is horrible but the second I read this Jim Morrison's "Light my Fire" came to mind.
2007-12-30 07:32:36 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋