It's a very sad world sometimes
Tuesday August 15, 2006
”... two women are murdered every day in Guatemala and many are hideously mutilated.
In 2005, 665 women were killed – more than 20% up on the previous year and 10 times the equivalent rate in the UK.
The chilling documentary raises the question: Why, after 36 years of civil war, are the guns and the knives being turned on women?”
I’m watching Cutting Edge: Killers Paradise right now. It’s hideously sad.
When I see things like this it breaks my heart…
All over the world women get sh*t on just because they’re women… we should think ourselves so lucky that all most of us really have to deal with in unequal pay.
16.08.06 - Jillian - #
That is really sad and pathetic. One of the many reasons it happens is because woman are perceived as weak and fragile. They also see us as stupid, which absolutely drives me insane.
I watched a documentary on a country where they kidnap woman and force them into marriage. Then man and his other male family members take the woman to their home where the female family members hold her hostage. They have to convince her to marry the man. If she denies the marriage she is seen as a disgrace to her own family. Some woman give in, and others fight it. Some of the woman that fight it are murdered.
I don’t remember which country it is. I believe it’s somewhere in Asia. Things like this really sicken me, and I wish there was something we could do for those woman in other countries.
16.08.06 - Toya - #
Wow, that is so sad. I agree with Jillian, we are looked upon as vulnerable and weak individuals although we are the strong brave women who give birth to those that kill and hurt us.
16.08.06 - Natalie - #
That is so sad.
16.08.06 - Felicia - #
that disturbs me .. it really does. the fact that women are punished b/c they’re women. that is just among one of the many, many issues women deal with and are subjected to in this world. i didn’t realize how fortunate some of us were.
17.08.06 - Shirazi - #
Very painful.
18.08.06 - Marz - #
I could have sworn that I commented here already. Hm..
Reading about this is very disheartening. I have heard about, read about and even talked to people who online who are male chauvenists (though I don’t really talk to them often for obvious reasons), and when I read about something like this, it saddens me at the extent of the damage this has reached.
This does make me thankful that I live in a country that is able to see women as means of empowerment (though there are some instances where subtle sexism has happened), and how fortunate we are.