Superior rant warning!!!
Originally posted by tidoco2222
Thank you primeval that is basically the point that I was trying to get accross. You only have to look at the control a middle eastern man has over a middle eastern woman on everyday issues such as how to dress and so forth to see the male dominance of the culture.
An interesting point, but where do we westerners get the balls from to judge a culture becuase it\'s male dominated? now don\'t get me wrong, I DO NOT CONDONE ABUSE/RAPE/VIOLENCE, but I am of the firm belief that we \'enlightened\' westerners are the most arrogant sons of female dogs you will ever meet.
So what if their culture is male dominated? That\'s their culture, and we have no right to make any judgement over that. Frankly, coming from a society where females have only had the right to vote for the last 80 odd years, it\'s actually pretty hypocritical.
I have always been of the firm belief that even though a culture works by different rules that I myself would find utterly appaling to have to abide by, I have no right to judge that culture, just because I do not understand or even agree with it. The fact is that in many middle eastern and eastern countries, where arranged mariages are quite common, where the woman has a seemingly \'underling\' position compared with men(although the woman is in most cases dominant within the domestic household), they are quite happy to abide by these rules. This is a way of living that has preceded western civilisation by thousands of years, and on the whole, seems to work. It has flaws, like our own ways of life have flaws. Rape, abuse and even spouse and child murders are occuring every day in the western civilized world, and are as much a result of todays\' anxiety and incapability of being able to find balance as it is in those countries.
I find news items such as that shocking, but not more shocking as the story of the lady who won courtcase against a microwave company for not stating in their manual you couldn\'t use it to dry your pet.
Right now a British man is being held hostage by a bunch of political fanatics while his family plead with the government to give the hostage takers what they want, knowing full well that the governemnt will not, and he is a dead man walking.
right now there are children being beaten to a bloody pulp by their fathers in america, becuase their mothers haven\'t made enough money hooking to afford their husband\'s drug habit.
right now in europe somewhere there is a man living on the street, forgotten by society because it is convenient, because he didn\'t fit in, or there were simply no people left to care about him.
i\'m not saying these things are not terrible, they are, but i feel strongly that as a race, human beings have lost their way, and we would all do better and look around us a bit more, instead of looking into the shiny mirror that the media puts in front of our face. Although by no means a religious person, sometimes, I do beleive the carpenter had a few good points...
Ok, rant over, you can come stone my arse now....
