by RGM » Sun Feb 10, 2008 4:20 am
I read that Iraq story on CNN on Friday, and it made me sick to my stomach. The things that men do to women and claim religious justification are absolutely appalling. It defies any standard of common sense. I cannot fathom that a woman walking around town without a male escort or with make-up on merits torture and beheading. How some can, and then actually follow up and carry out that sentence, is mortifying.
Canadian novelist Margaret Atwood once asked a male friend why men feel threatened by women. He replied: "They are afraid women will laugh at them." She then asked a group of women why they felt threatened by men. They answered: "We're afraid of being killed."