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Words fail me.
April 30, 2015 at 10:02 am
(This post was last modified: April 30, 2015 at 10:04 am by Regina.)
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RE: Words fail me.
April 30, 2015 at 10:13 am
That is one smart little girl, great that she was able to escape
It seriously worries me that there are people willing to defend marrying off little kids in this day and age... and even more that many of those kids don't have anyone to turn to for help
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RE: Words fail me.
April 30, 2015 at 10:26 am
"It's a cultural thing, don't butt in"
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April 30, 2015 at 11:09 am
(April 30, 2015 at 10:26 am)pocaracas Wrote: "It's a cultural thing, don't butt in" Oh when people argue that
![[Image: giphy.gif]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=media0.giphy.com%2Fmedia%2FRhhr8D5mKSX7O%2Fgiphy.gif)
Yes because the right to marry your kid off against their will "because culture" always outweighs their right to education, freedom and a childhood...
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RE: Words fail me.
April 30, 2015 at 11:28 am
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April 30, 2015 at 11:37 am
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This is why religions oppose education generally. Keep the masses free of the pull of inquiry, and they will trust that whatever their leader, or anyone in a leadership position says is true. Then, so long as they, are inured from outside influence, they can say whatever they like regardless of whether it has any basis in fact. This guy likely believes he is right, anyhow. God's messenger and all that.
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April 30, 2015 at 11:44 am
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April 30, 2015 at 11:50 am
Upholding a tradition for tradition's sake is not a good excuse, and I rlly don't care what the vatican says about anything. People need to learn that women are good for more than childbearing. Marrying someone off before they even reach adulthood, and find out who they really are in life, is horrible. You know it's wrong when you have to lie to a child, and say that it's just a game.
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April 30, 2015 at 12:11 pm
The scholar is a monster - Why someone would support the idea of marrying your 10 year old child is a mystery to me. This is very clichê to say but romantic and sexual relationships, specially marriage, require a degree of maturity and personal will. I cannot imagine how harmful it must be for a 10 year old to be married at that age, or why her father would allow such atrocity just because it's tradition.
Personally I think 18 is a fine age to get married (legally) but 16 year old should be allowed with parental consent.
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April 30, 2015 at 12:19 pm
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Yeah I've seen that before, it blew me away. That little girl is one of the most switched-on people I've ever seen, and she was barely in double digits in the video.
The scholar, on the other hand, is one of the creepiest, and certainly one of the most arrogant. Probably used to always being listened to and obeyed his whole life, getting his intellectual arse handed to him by a child has to sting the old ego a bit.
Fuckin' nonce.
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