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A Woman's Place


news.bbc.co.uk

Using sexuality to supress anti-government protesters?
Sexual abuse as a tool of repression/oppression.

Different from US using sexuality to crush the wills of thier prisoners?



Common enough throughout the world.
From female circumcisions, rape a sister to bring justice for a brothers crimes, a rapists marriage of his victem to "spare her honor", the concepts of ownership of ones wife, the transfer of a wife, as property, from deceased to living relatives, the ritual cleansing through sex after a divorce, the "Moral Police" in various forms who seem preoccupied with women's dress, make-up and public life, foot binding, sex-symbols, exploitation, even in the "advanced" world where women are more often adired for being sexy then "powerful yet sexy" and lastly powerful or intelligent.

What a mess.

And in the end. Women control the next generation entirely.
If Women wanted too the birth order can be skewed to 80:20, 90:10, whatever.
they can control then entire destiny of mankind, and change history in 2 generations.

What on earth stops them?

Ultimate power through control of the future is in their hands, in thier wombs.

What on earth keeps them from excersising such power?

Men have often left baby girls to die, abortion tends to skew birth towards male over female, and the male:female ratio shows this in India, China, parts of thailand, and historically the roman empire, the greeks, and Arabian peninsula.

It was common enough to be absolutely forbidden by Allah in the Qur'an.

So whats the deal. With total control over the future, absolute power, how is it that women remain as powerless, as maligned as they do. even in the most advnaced nations, only the richer, wealtheir women benefit from anything remotly similar to equal rights with men.

Even in the Torture/Abuse scandals, womens bodies where used as tools, and for all the "disgrace and humiliation" that the detainees suffered, how honorable is the woman now? how powerful? even in that case, was it not her sexuality that was used?

How pathetic, even in postition of total power over the men, it resorted to her as a sexual object.
 

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Login to find out (November 24, 2005 at 7:23am)
Talking of honour and all that malarkey:

Rape case collapse over consent: news.bbc.co.uk

Women 'face worst abuse at home': news.bbc.co.uk
 
Login to find out (November 11, 2005 at 1:08pm)
On driving and dining in SaudiArabia
www.arabnews.com section=0& article=73008& d=11& m=11& y=2005
 
Login to find out (November 11, 2005 at 9:15am)
news.bbc.co.uk

do it yourself kinda gals.

the only way. other women take notes
 
Login to find out (October 28, 2005 at 2:55pm)
'bout damn time
 
Login to find out (October 28, 2005 at 12:33pm)
Islamic Femanists Urge Gender Jihad: news.bbc.co.uk
 
Login to find out (October 26, 2005 at 7:58pm)
www.slate.com


yep, the results of the feminist movement couldn't have been better planned by a horny frat boy.

subhanallah, what a screw up.
 
Login to find out (October 20, 2005 at 2:51pm)
Iran is pretty good at this thing - from my v limited understanding and knowledge base that is.
 
Login to find out (October 20, 2005 at 1:23pm)
csmonitor.com

a bit of good news, finally
 
Login to find out (October 19, 2005 at 3:27am)
Login to find out (August 27, 2005 at 8:26pm)
Login to find out (June 30, 2005 at 9:03pm)
initially it was 'lowz'bud, but he settled for rosebud.. HAAAAAAAA.
 
Login to find out (June 30, 2005 at 4:19pm)
saraaaahh, nooow i know where orson wells got that name from.. he dated an arab woman *:
 
Login to find out (June 30, 2005 at 2:27pm)
Mango
 
Login to find out (June 30, 2005 at 2:24pm)
rosebud.. :P
 
Login to find out (June 29, 2005 at 8:39pm)
and more...
 
Login to find out (June 29, 2005 at 6:19pm)
ERTW, Isn't that the true Muslim Woman's Values, to practice sex when she is a wife not a sex partner, girlfriend, or an ?Almond"!
 
Login to find out (June 29, 2005 at 5:55pm)
As others have said that due to emotional manipulation a woman's worth is seen to be directly tied to her sexuality throughout the world. And the worst offenders of this imbalance are women themselves. It's the mother who will feed her infant son more than the daughter. It's the woman who performs female circumcision in the African countries. In many cases of honour killings, it's not just the man who felt the girl deserved to die, so did the mother,sister or aunt.

In the western countries, liberation has meant that a woman's worth is valued on her overt sexuality. Hence you see 10 to 12 year old girls wearing "too hot to handle" tank tops. It's common knowledge that teenage girls feel pressure to give in to having sex with their boyfriends or 'friends with benefits' so that she's viewed as being popular and not a lesbian.

True liberation is when a woman feels empowered with her intellectual, mental, and sexual assets and uses them when she herself is most comfortable with it, not because of what others think.

Unfortunately many women are very insecure and thus let themselves be held hostage to a male-centric view of a woman's place in the world
 
Login to find out (June 29, 2005 at 12:49am)
once again, womans issues spiral inexplicably towards sexual liberation. how ironic. women having casual, no-strings-attached sex is probably something alot of men would support (as long as it wasn't their women)
 
Login to find out (June 28, 2005 at 1:23pm)
ur right mona..this is just another story abt a how a woman discovers her sexual potential via casual sex.. it could be about a muslim, a catholic or a budhist...
 
Login to find out (June 28, 2005 at 12:59am)
just read the review and I am not impressed at all!!! I am actually disgusted, and this is why: " Driss ( her lover) satisfies her sexually and she loves him passionately, however, he is not faithful to her. They engage in rapacious threesomes and Driss has other women and occasionally also has men. But Badra remains Driss's "almond," his butterfly. Every particle of her skin a love nest and a source of ecstasy for him. When she's with him she "loses the virginity of her heart."
The "Almond" is not at all about any Muslim woman sexual awakening, how can it be when CASUAL sex is the only goal, and pleasure overrules desire where the man is the prison guard.