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Treatment of women as property

dimanche 24 juillet 2016 à 02:00

A Pakistani star whose videos outraged religious prudes refused a demand from her brother to stop making them. So he murdered her.

The patriarchal treatment of women as property of their families was found in many societies. Look up Verginia in Wikipedia for an ancient Roman example — but you don't see many of these "honor" killings in Rome nowadays. Most societies have reformed and at least partly shed their patriarchal past.

We should demand that Pakistanis and Pakistani expats condemn this practice firmly enough to make their compatriots feel ashamed of it.