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2009-01-21 Arabia

Saudi activists liken child marriages to slavery

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Posted by Fred 2009-01-21 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Good for y'all. The antebellum Republican Party platform used to equate Mormon polygamy and slavery as twin evils. They're both about the pathological patriarchal need to centralize control of the familial sphere in the dictatorial hands of a single daddy-figure by political means. That *sounds* like feminazi ranting, but there's acres of daylight between the rationalized Victorian-style nuclear family and the sprawling familial villages spawned by chattel slavery and unchecked polygyny. Taken to an extreme, only the patriarch is given agency, and freedom becomes "freedom of the head of the household".

Posted by Mitch H.">Mitch H. 2009-01-21 09:40|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/]">[http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/] 2009-01-21 09:40|| Front Page Top

#2 And I should further note that child-brides are an unavoidable corollary of patriarchal polygamy. When unmarried women become a scarce commodity, the definition of "woman" grows broader and broader, and the space between "infant" and "wife" becomes narrower and narrower.

Posted by Mitch H.">Mitch H. 2009-01-21 09:43|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/]">[http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/] 2009-01-21 09:43|| Front Page Top

#3 So...does that mean they think it's bad?
You never know with these people.

Posted by tu3031 2009-01-21 10:30|| 2009-01-21 10:30|| Front Page Top

#4 Watch your neck pal. A good muslim emulates his self-appointed "prophet."

Posted by Muggsy Snineger4931 2009-01-21 14:25|| 2009-01-21 14:25|| Front Page Top

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