I never understood why they were called "honour killings". I still get angry when people write about them in articles without quote marks, because. Because then there's nothing to draw attention to how wrong they are, nothing to call them into question; without the quotations, they seem normal, something people have acclimatised to, accepted. And it's not normal, it's wrong, because these are their families and no family should ever think that justifiable, they're supposed to be the people who love you and protect you.
I'm heartsick. I'm shaking so much, I use the delete key more than I'm actually typing anything. She was sixteen. So many more are younger still. Why is this still happening? Why do people think it's okay?
We as a society have a responsibility to these women, because fuck everything, this isn't the world I signed on to live in. Hear fucking hear.
♥ It will get better. Because it has to. Because I don't want to bring children - bring daughters - into a world where this happens. I don't want them to ask me why, and have no answers for them. I don't want to have to watch them learn that these things happen in the world. Because they shouldn't. I have only a basic understanding of Islam, but this - this isn't in the Koran. This isn't any anything I ever read about Islam. Those pieces I read couldn't praise women enough. So what happened?
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Date: 2010-02-08 10:25 pm (UTC)I'm heartsick. I'm shaking so much, I use the delete key more than I'm actually typing anything. She was sixteen. So many more are younger still. Why is this still happening? Why do people think it's okay?
We as a society have a responsibility to these women, because fuck everything, this isn't the world I signed on to live in. Hear fucking hear.
♥ It will get better. Because it has to. Because I don't want to bring children - bring daughters - into a world where this happens. I don't want them to ask me why, and have no answers for them. I don't want to have to watch them learn that these things happen in the world. Because they shouldn't. I have only a basic understanding of Islam, but this - this isn't in the Koran. This isn't any anything I ever read about Islam. Those pieces I read couldn't praise women enough. So what happened?
*hugs*