History of Feminism
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The young woman, a student, had been violently raped by a man she trusted; then left for dead in a pool of her own blood in a snow bank outside a club one winter evening last year. Miraculously, she survived the attack, though the operation to reconstruct her vagina and repair her cervix and uterus took many hours. Her assailant had used an unidentified blunt object during the rape, the doctor testified.
Francesco Tuccia, 22, the man eventually convicted of her rape, asked if he could leave the courtroom during the doctors graphic testimony, and was escorted out. His victim stayed as Tuccias lawyers argued that he had only used his hands, and that her injuries were due to her petite stature. This, his lawyers argued, was a loving relationship between two consenting adults. Tuccias passions may have been unbridled, they said, but were certainly not malicious.
Though statistics on femicide are hard to come by, according to the United Nations, 50 percent of women killed between 2008 and 2010 in Europe were killed by a family member. For men, that number was just 15 percent. In other words, women are killed by those who supposedly love them. Only six weeks into the year, already nine women in Italy have been murdered by their husbands, exes, or boyfriends.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/02/17/men-who-hate-women.html?account=thedailybeast&medium=twitter
CrispyQ
(36,557 posts)Latin America, commonly perceived to have a bigger problem than Europe, for example, has done much more to tackle the problem. People have a misconception that its worse in Latin America, but its not, she told The Daily Beast. Europe has been slow to join the party.
BainsBane
(53,127 posts)Staffed by women police and for crimes against women, such as rape and domestic battery.
CrispyQ
(36,557 posts)but I was immediately pissed off that we even have to have a great idea like that.
BainsBane
(53,127 posts)without having to deal with male scorn or disbelief. It also creates a mass of women police officers.
CrispyQ
(36,557 posts)but men should not be brutalizing women. Like the poster below said, just stop it.
ismnotwasm
(42,023 posts)That this is a problem of the so-called 'third world' countries all the attention India and Egypt are getting.
I've also read criticisms of the 'one Billion Rising' movement saying it doesn't actually 'help' the poor, the disenfranchised, the developing nations. Irritating since the most powerful voice at the rising I attended were from Islamic Somalian women. The MC was a women who was strongly Asian in appearance, but smoothly broke into Spanish to interpret what she had just said in English. The best dancers were street people. Men were weeping at the stories of women. A belly dancer could celebrate her body and her talent without objectification.
Violence against women most certainly is a global atrocity that crosses gender,culture and socio-economic statue and I never want to forget that.
CrispyQ
(36,557 posts)CrispyQ
(36,557 posts)the 'Western Civilized Countries' are better at this.
THIS > > > "Violence against women most certainly is a global atrocity that crosses gender,culture and socio-economic statue and I never want to forget that."
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)here on du we like to say those rotten repugs. this so goes beyond party.
if we cannot even recognize this, we will not get far.
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)seabeyond
(110,159 posts)he is.
Deep13
(39,154 posts)Just stop it!
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)but if only that is all it takes. i hear ya.
is it getting worse, or are we just hearing about it more.
Deep13
(39,154 posts)We should act to prevent such things. It just should never happen.
redqueen
(115,108 posts)In the US, on average, three women are murdered every single day by a partner or ex partner.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)boston bean
(36,225 posts)Blood will boil after watching, listening and reading this asshole's posts and videos.
http://www.menarebetterthanwomen.com/
Dash87
(3,220 posts)Basically, when bloggers post offensive crap for attention or the pleasure of pissing others off.
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)with the help of our media.
internet, yea. gives them a voice.
redqueen
(115,108 posts)Spectacularly.
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)damn thing but allow it to grow.
people live in such deny to be comfortable. screw everyone else as long as their world is just fine... until it is not just fine anymore cause the world comes into play in our RL.
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)and the animal he is.
italy is very much a misogynist society. we like to pretend they are more socially progressive. i see most europe behind us in the womans movement. we are told so many things that factually do not pan out but logically make no sense. and we are suppose to just buy it.
and then to have SOME men tell us it is just as bad for them. sick.
they do not even try to pretend that they are better about this issue than the u.s. they compare themselves to latin america macho society.
for whatever reason i have an interest in this man hates woman that i am feeling so much of. yesterday i was reading a site and a man was saying "i hate women" and then went into a bunch of garbage about women the ultimate evil, ect... reading thru the responses there was a poster with the same name as someone on du. it was really illuminating. how horrible american women are and boy did it go on a rant that would be parallel to his posts on du, but in code usage, now flat out saying like on this site.
then later in the day i read an article by a woman, talking about this men hating women phenomena. again, very interesting. i come in here to post that article and see your title. so, it is something i am gonna do a little focusing on.