Do you need a license for that, Mister?

Hubby told me yesterday about the Fritzl case in Austria and added, "If I were that man's wife, he'd be dead." So many lives to rebuild, but at least...alive. It's hard to believe, in this day and age, that a person could be held prisoner in her own home by the parent most committed to her trust. It's harder still to believe that this is not an isolated case and that the brainwashed, pregnant teenagers from the FLDS truly believe that salvation lies in medically unattended, production style pregnancies by older, related men. Because they were told to be sweet and behave. Yes. I see a direct correlation. Meanwhile, men continue to kill the children they do not keep alive to torture at a shocking rate. While these are headline-grabbing stories from developed countries and the victims in these media fire storms are mostly blue-eyed blondes, women and girls are imprisoned, sold as slaves and kept as chattel all over the world. Where's the outrage, when babies are raped and infected with AIDS by ignorant men trying to save their own lives? Where's the outrage when so-called "honor" killings snuff the lives of women who dare to question the status quo and then be blamed for their own murder? The truth of the matter is, is that violence against females continues to be bidness as usual. Feminist though I may be, I'm not a militant....yet... where do I sign up?

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[Mary]

Thanks