There are real cultural differences. Believe it or not there is an actual country right now where the conditions for women are so bad that the elected male leaders in this country constantly try and pass laws to make women including rape victims forcibly stick large objects up their vaginas as a pre-condition to getting medical treatment.
This particular country is so backward that in some parts of it rape victims are forced to pay for their own rape kit if they want to file charges against their attacker. Elected male leaders in this primitive culture posses all sorts of bizarre beliefs that they believe justify rape. Apparently, they believe a lot of women simply “rape so easy” that they should be denied medical treatment. That is a rape other than what they define as an “honest rape” should simply be forgiven. In such a case, the woman should simply, “make lemonade out of lemons.” Then they use the term “non-forcible rape” to describe rape in an incest or employee/employer type of situation. These backward folks think in such a case the woman should be forced to give birth to their rapist’s baby. In this backward culture, the elected male leaders cite religion to justify their outrageous beliefs and treatment of women.
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Originally posted by: Boilerman
She sent me an email yesterday, during which she explained that when in public in Tunisia she has learned to not look men in the eye and to not smile in their presence. Furthermore, she said that while standing in a line it's common for a man to simply push woman out of line. The woman then must drop behind the man, then hoping that another man doesn't do the same.
I'm assuming these are the moderate Muslims that people keep talking about.
