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Gah. I would like to live in a world where women don't get stoned to death, please.

Date: 2008-11-08 12:27 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lederhosen.livejournal.com
Considering her culture's attitude toward females, it may very well be that she was old enough to be married, but, being female, would be treated as a child all her life.

Yeah, I think that's one of the complications here - discrimination and abuse don't draw much distinction between girls and adult women, so it makes sense for "women's rights" to encompass both of them. I guess "female humans" would remove the ambiguity, but to my ear that sounds a bit... impersonal, maybe?

And thanks for being so understanding - looking back, I can see that it wasn't at all clear from my original post that the scope of what I was saying wasn't the same as the scope of the article that provoked it. If that makes any sense.

Date: 2008-11-08 12:38 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ambitious-wench.livejournal.com
It was also the article you linked to that added to my angst; the first three words of the subheading are "a young woman..."

In this specific case, the victim was a girl, not a woman. This is so common.

Remember the crime in Iraq where some soldiers raped a girl and then killed her family in front of her before killing her? She was a child too, but our press insisted on calling her a young woman.




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