For once last year Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to something important.
Education!
The Nobel Peace Prize 2014 was awarded jointly to Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai "for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education".

For that to have any meaning, this needs to be stopped

Couple of points need answering...

1: "The court heard evidence from both victims, who came from troubled backgrounds."

2: "On behalf of the council, I would also like to apologise to both of them for letting them down during this period in their lives."

Sorry is just not good enough!

Exhibition on forced adoption prompts outpouring from women moved by loss

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Here's hopefully some very high profile impetus to move away from some of the old misogynistic ways:


Barack Obama in Kenya: 'no excuse' for treating women as second-class citizens

* ‘Just because something is part of your past doesn’t make it right’, Obama says

* Rousing address in Nairobi also offers insight into his African heritage


... Obama earned vociferous applause from 4,500 Kenyans at a sports arena in the capital, Nairobi, by throwing down the gauntlet over the rights of women and girls. He gave short shrift to those in Africa who hide behind arguments defending tradition and culture against values they say are imposed by the west. Considering his heritage, it was a case he could make better than any previous US president.

“Every country and every culture has traditions that are unique and help make that country what it is, but just because something is part of your past doesn’t make it right; it doesn’t mean it defines your future,” Obama said, citing the recent debate in America over the Confederate flag.

“Around the world there is a tradition of oppressing women and treating them differently and not giving them the same opportunities, and husbands beating their wives, and children not being sent to school. Those are traditions. Treating women and girls as second-class citizens. Those are bad traditions. They need to change.”...



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“Around the world there is a tradition of oppressing women and treating them differently and not giving them the same opportunities, and husbands beating their wives, and children not being sent to school. Those are traditions. Treating women and girls as second-class citizens. Those are bad traditions. They need to change.”...

What if the Jihadists win?

What if fundamental Christians win? What if orthodox Judaism wins? The answer seems the same to me.

“Around the world there is a tradition of oppressing women and treating them differently and not giving them the same opportunities, and husbands beating their wives, and children not being sent to school. Those are traditions. Treating women and girls as second-class citizens. Those are bad traditions. They need to change.”...

What if the Jihadists win?

What if fundamental Christians win? What if orthodox Judaism wins? The answer seems the same to me.

I believe the answer is the same if any fundamental Abrahamist sect wins, because there is no difference between any of them.

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What if the Jihadists win?

When have they ever won?

Their fight is with history, and its a fight they can't win. You can't stop human progress, you can only slow it down temporarily.

Everything is Temporary. Any 'Advance' is only a temporary illusion. As History instructs us.

That just shows how poorly you understand history. Really, any advance is only temporary? Sorry, but if I look at history, I can see a pretty clear line of progress. And even when empires collapse, they don't revert back to caveman levels of civilization, at worst they simply don't advance for a while.

On top of that, now we also have the phenomena of globalization. Now if countries lose power (they no longer collapse once they are past a certain level) they simply stop being leaders, but other countries simply pick up where they have left.

No, the only way human progress can be halted or reversed is total nuclear annihilation. And Jihadist don't have that kind of power.

Ah, the religion of Abraham, so pure .....
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2015/08/06/the-girls-get-peddled-like-barrels-of-petrol-u-n-official-confirms-nauseating-price-list-for-islamic-state-sex-slaves/

The pamphlet, “Questions and Answers on Taking Captives and Slaves,” purported to present the Shariah law position on issues such as when it’s permissible to have sexual intercourse, when it’s OK to beat them and if one can sell and “gift” slaves.

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A slow move for such a large country in shameful misogynistic controversy...


India weighs update to 1970s abortion law

Last month, the plight of a 14-year-old rape survivor seeking to terminate her pregnancy renewed the debate surrounding India's abortion laws...



Hopefully there can be quickly change for the better for all.

All in our only one world,
Martin

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Dance topless and the king may have you as his bride....
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/08/29/38-girls-young-women-killed-in-swaziland-crash-group-says/

About 40,000 young women participate in the eight-day reed dance ceremony in which they sing and dance, usually bare-breasted, as they bring reeds to reinforce the windbreak around the royal residence. During the reed dance, the king often selects one of the young women to become one of his wives. Swaziland is polygamous and the king has more than a dozen wives.

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The punishment is rape!
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/08/india-village-council-orders-rapes-sisters-150829145847675.html

The unelected all-male village council in Baghpat, Uttar Pradesh, on July 30 ordered that a woman, 23, and her sister, 15, be raped and paraded naked with their faces blackened after their brother ran away with a woman from the village's dominant Jat caste.

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10 ways you can tell if you’re a ‘feminazi’

1. Like Charlotte Proudman, who legitimately challenged irrelevant remarks made about her appearance on LinkedIn, you don’t take sexist comments with a pinch of salt. You can tell the difference between a compliment in a social setting and an unsolicited rating of your appearance in a professional context from a man more than twice your age, even though this is apparently a hugely complex and baffling distinction.

2. You find the term feminazi mildly offensive (given that it seems to equate the quest for gender equality to the Holocaust and all).

3. As a casual observer you once commented (perhaps lightheartedly) on social media about a sexist comment someone made, only to see media outlets doorstep his wife, publish Facebook photos of his daughter, whip up a publicity storm and then blame it all on the fact that you and five other people expressed your opinions on Twitter. You dirty Twitchforker, you.

4. You think it’s pretty unfair that women effectively work from 4 November until the end of the year for free because of the gender pay gap; and that female managers “work for free” for nearly two hours a day; and that the pay gap is even wider for women of colour and disabled women.

Oh, and that 54,000 women lose their jobs to maternity discrimination each year.

5. You’re concerned that in 2015 women still make up fewer than a third of MPs, fewer than a quarter of professors, and one fifth of high court judges, write just one in five front page newspaper articles, and lead fewer FTSE 100 companies than men named John.

6. You’re angry about the 85,000 women raped and 400,000 sexually assaulted in the UK every year.

7. It troubles you that 26% of all sexual offences reported to the police are recorded as “no crimes”, that rape victims face public blame and ridicule, and that conviction rates for rape in the UK are among the lowest in Europe.

8. You’re outraged that two women every week are killed in England and Wales by a current or former partner. You don’t feel like outrage is too strong a word to use in this context.

9. It strikes you as irrational that you live in a country where one in three girls experiences unwanted sexual touching at school, yet the curriculum doesn’t guarantee that young people will learn about healthy relationships and sexual consent.

10. You believe that in a world where women routinely face discrimination, sexual assault and violence it makes sense to challenge every instance of gender inequality – even the “minor” ones, because they are part of the wider imbalanced structure and help to maintain the attitudes that allow the larger transgressions to flourish.

But whatever you do, don’t you dare speak out. Because that’s what really makes you a feminazi.

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My, that makes the UK sound like a paradise! Have to point out this stellar example next time there is country bashing going on in the forums as proof of how superior the UK is over every other country on the planet.

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My, that makes the UK sound like a paradise! Have to point out this stellar example next time there is country bashing going on in the forums as proof of how superior the UK is over every other country on the planet.

Pointing out problems in one country does not negate the problems in another country. Hence, trying to deflect criticism of country A by pointing out that country B isn't perfect either is little more than a logical fallacy.

1. Like Charlotte Proudman, who legitimately challenged irrelevant remarks made about her appearance on LinkedIn, you don’t take sexist comments with a pinch of salt. You can tell the difference between a compliment in a social setting and an unsolicited rating of your appearance in a professional context from a man more than twice your age, even though this is apparently a hugely complex and baffling distinction.

3. As a casual observer you once commented (perhaps lightheartedly) on social media about a sexist comment someone made, only to see media outlets doorstep his wife, publish Facebook photos of his daughter, whip up a publicity storm and then blame it all on the fact that you and five other people expressed your opinions on Twitter. You dirty Twitchforker, you.

I'm sorry but 3. is just total bollocks. The writer seriously suggest that Proudman was such an innocent little flower that she didn't realize the potential consequences of posting that stuff on Twitter? Where has she been the past 10 years?

Apparently some people are still under the idiotic delusion that social media are private and that what you say only gets shared with friends. No, social media are not private, anything you say is publicized on the internet for EVERYONE to read. Consider posting on social media about as private as going to a busy shopping mall and yell your private thoughts through a loudspeaker.

If you are to stupid or to naive to think otherwise, well thats your problem, but you most certainly deserve the blame when you (un)intentionally whip up a twitter induced media storm.

And in the Proudman case in particular, was it really necessary? She wrote a very eloquent response to his sexist comment and she had informed his employers. Adding public shaming to that response was overkill, and not thinking through the potential consequences was just terminally stupid.

That all said, she does not deserve to be called a Feminazi or any of the abuse that comes with that. No one deserves that.

10 ways you can tell if you’re a ‘feminazi’
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Feminazi:)
New word to me. But apparently used in Scandinavia as well.

10 ways you can tell if you’re a ‘feminazi’
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Feminazi:)
New word to me. But apparently used in Scandinavia as well.

Unfortuately that term is used at any women who speaks her mind. I have been called a feminazi on many occasions (mainly here on seti) and I assure you that I don't fit any of those descriptors.

However, that little dig about these women doing it because they are ugly, is actually really sexist and shows you exactly why we need feminism. The implication is that ugly women have no worth and therefore are bitter because men don't want them.

I've been told that I must be ugly because I am feminist. Isn't that a dumb thing to say to someone?

So your cartoon is sexist, which proves my point about people who have coined the term.

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So your cartoon is sexist, which proves my point about people who have coined the term.

Thats nonsense.
The cartoon depicts Feminists v/s Feminazi!
There is a difference.

So your cartoon is sexist, which proves my point about people who have coined the term.

Thats nonsense.
The cartoon depicts Feminists v/s Feminazi!
There is a difference.

Except there is no such thing as a feminazi by its own definition.

Women don't become man haters because they are ugly. That is just nonsense.

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