6 May, 2007 | Leave a Comment
I’m posting a link here to a blog post that contains a video that is probably one of the most horrific things I have ever seen in my life. I wish that I hadn’t watched it because it has upset me in a terrible way. It is video footage of a woman in Iraq who has just been stoned to death by a mob of men as part of an “honor killing.” These men are filming this woman with camera phones and laughing. This act of misogyny and pure savagery is incomprehensible to me. I can’t even begin to explain how I feel right now so I won’t try.
I think it is important that this video is posted on the Web as a testament to this poor woman and to the thousands of other women who have died similar deaths — anonymous women that no one cares about. This woman’s battered and bloodied body is evidence of what patriarchy does to women. Feminism is about ending patriarchy. If you’re a woman or a man who scoffs at feminists like me, or who cowers in fear at the word “feminism,” why don’t you go ahead and watch this video and educate yourself. Please.
Anglofille said @ 12:21 am | feminism | 5 Comments
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Ang04 Says:
May 6th, 2007 at 1:46 amThis is horrible. And something that’s so unimaginable that I never knew it existed, till now.
Pure savagery is right. Thank you for posting this. I will try to pass it on.
Ang04
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Please sign the petition
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This is very disturbing!
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jen Says:
May 6th, 2007 at 1:47 pmi can’t (won’t) watch the video – i know there are horrors carried out against women in this world that are best left to my imagination.
but i will fight it.
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This makes me so sad. A life has been taken so unjustly. She has not even passed her 20th and has not seen life ahead.
I am sorry for anyone who submit himself or herself to religion of any kind. People, open your eyes, you live once and you have to live it to the full. Do not let a human made control mechanism take take over you existence.
Please open your eyes, millions died in the name of religion or an ism. Please open your eyes and see the real life.
look at this and you know why: http://youtube.com/watch?v=WCyUbiqRZzk
