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tweakabelle -> RE: I do not want to have a Muslim mother. (5/16/2011 8:01:38 PM)
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ORIGINAL: juliaoceania
Again, another man weighs in on the subject.....
Not saying that just because you are a man you are wrong, not saying that at all... but I truly believe that women see this issue much differently because, well, we are women, and if we haven't been privy to abuse just because we are women, we know others who have been. Maybe we see this differently because violence against women is common place from our view. We see it with our friends, our sisters, our daughters, and even ourselves... so, like I said, it is easy to project that it is a problem "over there" because you aren't "in here" (the "in here" being the body of a woman).
And I am far from insinuating that all women feel the same way as I do, just as not all men on this thread agree with you, either
There is some evidence to support your view:
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"The opening poster observed a reprehensible practice that is endemic in most of the Islamic populations. Thanks to him noticing that practice it can be addressed and discussed and perchance ended. If he had failed to alert people it would never have been addressed and discussed let alone be ended as a possible result of the discussion."
It seems implicit in the above quote that, for at least one poster, this could be their first exposure to the topic. Not that that stops him trying to sound like an expert on the issue but that's besides the point perhaps.
Yes, perhaps there is a gender divide happening here. Unsurprisingly, those of us who have long been familiar with the issue, and have had to deal with its horrific consequences take a different view from those who have different histories and little experience of either the problem or its various manifestations. Happily for them, they're personally immune to the consequences of this brutality.
Of course, everyone is entitled to a view but equally, informed measured views carry so much more weight than knee jerk reactions.
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