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Muslim Brotherhood to UN: 10 reasons we hate women's rights
1. Granting girls full sexual freedom, as well as the freedom to decide their own gender and the gender of their partners (ie, choose to have normal or homosexual relationships), while raising the age of marriage.
I agree that's pretty dangerous. I'm thinking specifically of a rape case involving high school football (maybe it was baseball, I dunno) players and a girl who was so drunk she couldn't remember whether she'd been raped or not. She wasn't sure until she saw the photographic evidence on Facebook. But my first thought was "What the hell was she doing drunk on her ass with a bunch of guys she probably didn't even know?" With freedom comes responsibilty, to utter the obvious. Girls who aren't raised to be ladies are likely to find themselves in that kind of situation. Boys who aren't raised to be gentlemen are likely to be the kind of animals who regard girls as pieces of meat. Presently Egypt's streets are crawling with men who'll assault passing women at the drop of a hat. But it's a cultural thing. If all the Egyptians converted to Christianity the same street lice would still be crawling; the only difference would be that they'd go to church on Sundays.
2. Providing contraceptives for adolescent girls and training them to use those, while legalizing abortion to get rid of unwanted pregnancies, in the name of sexual and reproductive rights.
I don't think governments, any at all, should have any part in people's sex lives. Period. It simply doesn't track with providing for the common defense or even ensuring domestic tranquility. It does track with the (apparently theoretical) right to be left alone. If we weren't quite so obsessed with sex it wouldn't be so much of a problem and it would remain a joy. I'm against abortion, but it's a 51 percent against; I can see lots of occasions where it's better, starting with rape.
3. Granting equal rights to adulterous wives and illegitimate sons resulting from adulterous relationships.
Goose-gander. I don't approve of infidelity, but from what I've seen, men are more likely to stray than women, by maybe a percentage point or two. The entire concept of "legitimacy" has gone "poof" in the past fifty years. Walk into a grade school in most places and you'll be hard-pressed to find a child, especially a first-born, whose mommy and daddy were married when they were born. But you have to ask, because those kids look and usually act no different from those born within wedlock.
4. Granting equal rights to homosexuals, and providing protection and respect for prostitutes.
Back to that right of privacy thing, I don't care if two "bachelors" share an apartment or even buy a house together. I prefer not to see them indulging in PDAs, but watching a fellow feeling up his girlfriend in public makes me uncomfortable, too. A person's accomplishments make his measure, not what he does in the bedroom or the bathroom. Prostitutes are a touchy matter; I wouldn't want my granddaughters to go into the business and I'm hope they're all being raised so that it will never occur to them to do so. But hookers remain human beings, and as such require the protection of the law.
5. Giving wives full rights to file legal complaints against husbands accusing them of rape or sexual harassment, obliging competent authorities to deal husbands punishments similar to those prescribed for raping or sexually harassing a stranger.
If she says "no" that means she doesn't want to. If a man's not married to her he should drop the matter at that point. Within marriage wheedling and begging is more to the point. Slapping the broad around and taking your pleasure remains just as much of an abomination whether she's your wife or a stranger walking past the mouth of an alley.
6. Equal inheritance (between men and women).
It's the wave of the future, bub. Why not? Wealth is no longer tied to land; it's money. It's easier to divide money than it is to divide land. Sons and daughters are both human beings. I suspect that they're both equal in the sight of God, assuming he notices such eentsy-weentsy things. There are biological differences, but you can find enough girls far enough outside the bell curve to whoop most boys that the distinctions become meaningless.
7. Replacing guardianship with partnership, and full sharing of roles within the family between men and women such as: spending, child care and home chores.
Partnership has been around since at least the time of St. Paul. It's been an up and down thing, mainly due to biology, but if women require guardianship it's to protect them against the sort of beasts infesting the streets of Cairo or Delhi. I've always thought the ideal was partnership, rather than reducing the object of my affections to the status of a domestic animal. Spending, child care and home chores adjust themselves within a partnership marriage. Sometimes one does them, other times the other. If it's a successful partnership materially the chores can be hired out.
8. Full equality in marriage legislation such as: allowing Muslim women to marry non-Muslim men, and abolition of polygamy, dowry, men taking charge of family spending, etc.
I'm staring at this, wondering "What's wrong with that." Maybe it makes more sense in Arabic. I have nothing against polygamy, assuming the women approve and the man's up to it both financially and physically. But most don't and most aren't. The rest of it's tribal, cultural stuff.
9. Removing the authority of divorce from husbands and placing it in the hands of judges, and sharing all property after divorce.
I think that divorce is too easy, but other than that this is another complaint against something that makes sense.
10. Cancelling the need for a husband's consent in matters like: travel, work, or use of contraception.
To which I reply, "Well, duh!"

Posted by: tipper 2013-03-18
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