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In the West it was historically OK to beat a woman in areas, if the stick was no thicker than your thumb. Arguably the Koran and other books allow a "disloyal" female to be admonished and beaten. So, has heterosexuality radically changed, or is it still OK? It's never been OK for some people, but that message is very diluted.
Originally posted by halfoldman
I'm not sure it's fair to pinpoint Africa.
I hear and see a lot of US and Western media on woman abuse.
Originally posted by halfoldman
Well Uganda made its feelings known on gender and especially homosexuals, and the DRC are doing the same - and misogynist, homophobic US pastors are having a field day in Africa.
But the tide will turn one day, and we we will rise against injustice.
People are cruel... people of all genders, all races, all political slants and all sexual preferences. It is part of the human condition and is not limited to any one sector thereof. Females can be quite cruel but because of the massive difference in physical strength, it is the male who has the greater opportunity to be noticed doing something inherent to the entire species. Stereotyping does no one a bit of good.
Originally posted by halfoldman
I hear you.
But are you saying woman abuse in the West stopped 100 years ago?
Originally posted by halfoldman
But yeah what is going on here does seem stronger by degree, although I'm not sure.
I'd like to think anti-woman violence is at least less brazen in the US - but then I see Mel Gibson.
Originally posted by Sherlock Holmes
No, I don't think that abuse towards women has stopped in the West, it's just that it's not considered to be generally acceptable today.
A typical sort of scene you might see in an older film, is a female character getting upset or hysterical, so the man slaps her on the face to make her ''snap out of it'' !
These sort of scenes make me wince when I see them, yet considering how censored films were a few decades ago, I can only assume that this sort of behavior was deemed to be appropriate not too long ago.
Originally posted by halfoldman
We could nit-pick a bit more here, but I'm so upset by a previous post that methinks there are real pigs to fry.
Originally posted by halfoldman
Just to mention, in my OP I had a clip on Big Brother in Australia (in a Western setting), and that seems to attract no interest. Not sure if it's true, but I sometimes feel Western people would rather displace gender problems on Africa (at least subconsciously) - perhaps a form of denial?
Africa is not moving from a traditional to a postmodern milieu in most cases, there is a lot of interference.