Posted on 04/25/2005 4:33:15 PM PDT by Lorianne
Quit talking about my wife!!!!
"...she is holding a book-signing event today in room 180 of the Law School at 12:30 p.m."
Well,well...
LOL. Be careful of your keyboard.
If vacuum was an energy source you could fly her brain to Jupiter and back.
Continuing perseverations of paranoid sexual credenda from the feverish brow of America's aging Midol-deprived oracle.
This statment is downright terrifying.
To all you men out there, I'm sorry women out there like this exist and I am not one of them.
Women had the keys ot the kingdom! They controlled the makeup and the psyche of the country by raising the next generation. But instead, the man-hating feminists told the impressionable young women that they were dirt, that they were nothing unless they competed with men. That they should not be a home maker and that they would only be "equal" if they shared the feminist goal. They need to stick together they said. A typical liberal tactic.
They convinced an entire generation to give up the keys and become a "professional" woman. They even convinced the country that women had a right to kill an unborn child in the name of convenience or career.
The result of the feminist movement has been countless murders of unborn children, children being raised by television sex & violence, children being dumbed down by the public school system, and children getting whatever they want because their parents don't want to put in the effort to fight with them. The children became a burden instead of a blessing.
In the end, women and men, find out that the most important thing all along was their children. They retire and wonder why their children do not know them and they regret the lies that the feminists told them and there final dying wish is to have more time with their children.
And as it pertains to this topic, the result has been a reduced value placed on the lives of women leading to an increase in the destruction of women.
Thank you feminists. You have done a world of good. You have officially killed chivalry and ruined a large chunk of the gen-x population.
Well, I agree with her position that pornography is degrading and humiliating to all women.
Hmmm... she's 58, and a Yale law grad. She had to have been in the class, or thereabouts, of Bill and Hillary. I'm sure Bill is very empathetic regarding the degradation of women. Maybe she and Bill can pow-wow with some of Bill's Hollywood mogul friends regarding the abuses of pornography.
Wait feminist are against pornography now? they were "for it" awhile ago. Oh well, no one cares what they think anyway.
An excellent post. The old saw, be careful what you wish for.
When the feminists decided to kill with impunity - (their babies), they unleashed a complete and total disregard for human life.
The violence against all citizens in this country is deplorable. How did we get here? Catch 22. Why would she expect men to value life when she doesn't?
All they need to say is that she graduated from Smith. That's enough for you to write your own story featuring moonbats and Women's Studies and the Mother Ship and exotic signals from her tooth fillings. Nobody will be able to tell the difference between your story and MacKinnon's real bio.
Just in case we needed any more evidence of the decline of American civilization.
You know it takes a lot of work to make a living today in the US so I think the real issue is how does this woman make a living, if not a successful career, being a professional idiot? I mean lots of people are idiots but this woman is getting paid. Please someone enlighten me.
You know it takes a lot of work to make a living today in the US so I think the real issue is how does this woman make a living, if not a successful career, being a professional idiot? I mean lots of people are idiots but this woman is getting paid. Please someone enlighten me.
Donna M. Hughes Professor & Carlson Endowed Chair Women’s Studies Program University of Rhode Island
A measure of Islamic fundamentalists’ success in controlling society is the depth and totality with which they suppress the freedom and rights of women. In Iran for 25 years, the ruling mullahs have enforced humiliating and sadistic rules and punishments on women and girls, enslaving them in a gender apartheid system of segregation, forced veiling, second-class status, lashing, and stoning to death.
Joining a global trend, the fundamentalists have added another way to dehumanize women and girls: buying and selling them for prostitution. Exact numbers of victims are impossible to obtain, but according to an official source in Tehran, there has been a 635 percent increase in the number of teenage girls in prostitution. The magnitude of this statistic conveys how rapidly this form of abuse has grown. In Tehran, there are an estimated 84,000 women and girls in prostitution, many of them are on the streets, others are in the 250 brothels that reportedly operate in the city. The trade is also international: thousands of Iranian women and girls have been sold into sexual slavery abroad.
The head of Iran’s Interpol bureau believes that the sex slave trade is one of the most profitable activities in Iran today. This criminal trade is not conducted outside the knowledge and participation of the ruling fundamentalists. Government officials themselves are involved in buying, selling, and sexually abusing women and girls.
Many of the girls come from impoverished rural areas. Drug addiction is epidemic throughout Iran, and some addicted parents sell their children to support their habits. High unemployment – 28 percent for youth 15-29 years of age and 43 percent for women 15-20 years of age ‑ is a serious factor in driving restless youth to accept risky offers for work. Slave traders take advantage of any opportunity in which women and children are vulnerable. For example, following the recent earthquake in Bam, orphaned girls have been kidnapped and taken to a known slave market in Tehran where Iranian and foreign traders meet.
Popular destinations for victims of the slave trade are the Arab countries in the Persian Gulf. According to the head of the Tehran province judiciary, traffickers target girls between 13 and 17, although there are reports of some girls as young as 8 and 10, to send to Arab countries. One ring was discovered after an 18 year-old girl escaped from a basement where a group of girls were held before being sent to Qatar, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates. The number of Iranian women and girls who are deported from Persian Gulf countries indicates the magnitude of the trade. Upon their return to Iran, the Islamic fundamentalists blame the victims, and often physically punish and imprison them. The women are examined to determine if they have engaged in “immoral activity.” Based on the findings, officials can ban them from leaving the country again.
Police have uncovered a number of prostitution and slavery rings operating from Tehran that have sold girls to France, Britain, Turkey, as well. One network based in Turkey bought smuggled Iranian women and girls, gave them fake passports, and transported them to European and Persian Gulf countries. In one case, a 16-year-old girl was smuggled to Turkey, and then sold to a 58-year-old European national for $20,000.
In the northeastern Iranian province of Khorasan, local police report that girls are being sold to Pakistani men as sex-slaves. The Pakistani men marry the girls, ranging in age from 12 to 20, and then sell them to brothels called “Kharabat” in Pakistan. One network was caught contacting poor families around Mashad and offering to marry girls. The girls were then taken through Afghanistan to Pakistan where they were sold to brothels.
In the southeastern border province of Sistan Baluchestan, thousands of Iranian girls reportedly have been sold to Afghani men. Their final destinations are unknown.
One factor contributing to the increase in prostitution and the sex slave trade is the number of teen girls who are running away from home. The girls are rebelling against fundamentalist imposed restrictions on their freedom, domestic abuse, and parental drug addictions. Unfortunately, in their flight to freedom, the girls find more abuse and exploitation. Ninety percent of girls who run away from home will end up in prostitution. As a result of runaways, in Tehran alone there are an estimated 25,000 street children, most of them girls. Pimps prey upon street children, runaways, and vulnerable high school girls in city parks. In one case, a woman was discovered selling Iranian girls to men in Persian Gulf countries; for four years, she had hunted down runaway girls and sold them. She even sold her own daughter for US$11,000.
Given the totalitarian rule in Iran, most organized activities are known to the authorities. The exposure of sex slave networks in Iran has shown that many mullahs and officials are involved in the sexual exploitation and trade of women and girls. Women report that in order to have a judge approve a divorce they have to have sex with him. Women who are arrested for prostitution say they must have sex with the arresting officer. There are reports of police locating young women for sex for the wealthy and powerful mullahs.
In cities, shelters have been set-up to provide assistance for runaways. Officials who run these shelters are often corrupt; they run prostitution rings using the girls from the shelter. For example in Karaj, the former head of a Revolutionary Tribunal and seven other senior officials were arrested in connection with a prostitution ring that used 12 to 18 year old girls from a shelter called the Center of Islamic Orientation.
Other instances of corruption abound. There was a judge in Karaj who was involved in a network that identified young girls to be sold abroad. And in Qom, the center for religious training in Iran, when a prostitution ring was broken up, some of the people arrested were from government agencies, including the Department of Justice.
The ruling fundamentalists have differing opinions on their official position on the sex trade: deny and hide it or recognize and accommodate it. In 2002, a BBC journalist was deported for taking photographs of prostitutes. Officials told her: “We are deporting you … because you have taken pictures of prostitutes. This is not a true reflection of life in our Islamic Republic. We don’t have prostitutes.” Yet, earlier the same year, officials of the Social Department of the Interior Ministry suggested legalizing prostitution as a way to manage it and control the spread of HIV. They proposed setting-up brothels, called “morality houses,” and using the traditional religious custom of temporary marriage, in which a couple can marry for a short period of time, even an hour, to facilitate prostitution. Islamic fundamentalists’ ideology and practices are adaptable when it comes to controlling and using women.
Some may think a thriving sex trade in a theocracy with clerics acting as pimps is a contradiction in a country founded and ruled by Islamic fundamentalists. In fact, this is not a contradiction. First, exploitation and repression of women are closely associated. Both exist where women, individually or collectively, are denied freedom and rights. Second, the Islamic fundamentalists in Iran are not simply conservative Muslims. Islamic fundamentalism is a political movement with a political ideology that considers women inherently inferior in intellectual and moral capacity. Fundamentalists hate women’s minds and bodies. Selling women and girls for prostitution is just the dehumanizing complement to forcing women and girls to cover their bodies and hair with the veil.
In a religious dictatorship like Iran, one cannot appeal to the rule of law for justice for women and girls. Women and girls have no guarantees of freedom and rights, and no expectation of respect or dignity from the Islamic fundamentalists. Only the end of the Iranian regime will free women and girls from all the forms of slavery they suffer.
The author wishes to acknowledge the Iranian human rights and pro-democracy activists who contributed information for this article. If any readers have information on prostitution and the sex slave trade in Iran, please contact me at dhughes@uri.edu
Dr. Donna M. Hughes is a Professor and holds the Carlson Endowed Chair in Women’s Studies at the University of Rhode Island
Absolutely. Hughes is a formidable intellect who has been working in the trenches for years ... and actually getting things done ... to better the lives of women around the world.
By the way, will you post the source for that piece?
I received it in an E-mail from a friend. I'll find out where he got it.
Here is one source:
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=13717
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