I came across this blog posted by Joss Stone (think that is the name) about violence against women and it seems to sum up some of my thoguths from late last night/early this morning when I got the call from the girl raped at the movie theater. In one part he says...
"What is wrong with women?
I mean wrong. Physically. Spiritually. Something unnatural, something destructive, something that needs to be corrected.How did more than half the people in the world come out incorrectly? I have spent a good part of my life trying to do that math, and I’m no closer to a viable equation. And I have yet to find a culture that doesn’t buy into it. Women’s inferiority – in fact, their malevolence -- is as ingrained in American popular culture as it is anywhere they’re sporting burkhas. I find it in movies, I hear it in the jokes of colleagues, I see it plastered on billboards, and not just the ones for horror movies. Women are weak. Women are manipulative. Women are somehow morally unfinished. (Objectification: another tangential rant avoided.) And the logical extension of this line of thinking is that women are, at the very least, expendable."
To read the full post, go to http://whedonesque.com/comments/13271
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Thanks for linking that. Incredivble article, and painfully true. I was looking up info on the author and it's Joss Whedon.
I guess this is another reason to be thankful for the gospel teaching the value of strong, spiritual, and powerhouse women. Even if everyone doesnt really get that.
And a reason to be thankful for people like you who fight the good fight.
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