(June 6, 2014 at 3:37 pm)Welsh cake Wrote: I suggest banning marriage altogether until the human race can begin to act maturely and responsibly about it.
*watches the number of honor killings plummet*
Do you really think so? I don't.
"The most common excuse for ‘honour killings’ is suspicion of ‘intimate’ relations between a woman and a man, whether (alleged) adultery, sex outside of marriage, or simply becoming close companions. Even women that have been victims of rape and sexual assault are targets of ‘honour killings’, as certain communities legally and/or culturally equate these violent acts with sex outside of marriage. Yet women and girls have been killed for more trivial reasons as well, such as simply being in the presence of a male who is not a relative, refusing to agree to an arranged marriage, for falling in love with someone who is unacceptable by family standards, for seeking divorce, or for trying to escape marital violence. Sometimes, the mere perception that a woman has behaved disobediently, thus shaming her father, brother, uncle, or cousin, has been reason enough to make a brutal attack on her life."-See more at: http://www.violenceisnotourculture.org/f...Boli8.dpuf
