I think this is a wonderful idea, but that saying 'this is bad and wrong and you must stop it because it disgusts me' is very much the wrong way to go about it. Education within these societies, by these societies is key, and hopefully with more education, the problem will eradicate itself.
It's bad and its wrong and they must stop it because it disgusts me and anybody with half a brain both in and outside of the society. Cultural understanding affects
how
one changes it (supporting movements within rather than getting all white knight and imperialist) but not
that
one changes it.
And the problem doesn't eradicate its self. It's brave people in the society its self that eradicate the problem.
There is SOME reason for this amazingly disproportionate result. Occams razor arguably indicates that gender has something to do with it.
And just as arguably it argues for any given other commonality between the victims that is perceptible to the perpetrators.
I have offered one, but just one you don't agree with. I don't know if Occam likes either of us any more than the other.
I believe Occam would say that he likes both of you. And carrots.
It's brave people in the society its self that eradicate the problem.
Yes, this. In the society itself. We can lead by example, yes, but I don't think I have any more right to step into that culture and say something is wrong than I do into American culture because I think capital punishment is wrong.
I don't think I have any more right to step into that culture and say something is wrong than I do into American culture because I think capital punishment is wrong
Does education from without count as stepping in? Boycotts? Political sanctions?
I would say that those are external pressures which might trigger change from within for what we see as the better, which would be a good thing, but that those things might also have no or the opposite effect. What they probably will do is assuage the guilt of people on the outside. If they also cause societal change that benefits people within, then so much the better.
eta that on that note, I'll have to go to bed, as I have a project to write tomorrow. Which this discussion has actually been quite helpful in framing for me.
I would say that those are external pressures which might trigger change from within
Your original statement read much more like everyone outside should sit back and let the culture itself take care of things. I only have so much respect to go around. We all draw our lines in different places, but there's no way I can take a stance against all external influence.
It's not "more often" its "almost always". There is SOME reason for this amazingly disproportionate result.
Yes, but the correlation doesn't tell you what that reason is. Parents rape their own children significantly more often than children rape their parents, or parents rape other people's children, or children rape other children, etc. Does Occam's razor indicate that there's something inherent in parenting that predisposes you to rape your child?
I'm comfortable saying that men who rape women are not embracing sexual equality. I just don't know what that proves about the feelings the vast majority of men have toward women.
Also, A Way to End Female Genital Cutting. Oddly enough, it takes a village.
You people are my pregnancy experts. What say you: Beach ball or other beach ball?
I suspect that Angelina Jolie may well stay skinny throughout her pregnancy, so citing Katie's puffiness or lack thereof is not conclusive. If that entire bulge is supposed to be baby and baby shell, then it's not only not real, it's crappy FX. Maybe the wind rushed up her blouse?
Not that I am sold on it being the most convincing pregnancy, but more from the inconsistent belly sizes demonstrated near the beginning.
