My 15-year-old relative was killed for refusing to marry her cousin. My family celebrated by dancing in the street (www.theguardian.com)
from Wudi@feddit.uk to world@lemmy.world on 01 Jun 11:08
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YtA4QCam2A9j7EfTgHrH@infosec.pub on 01 Jun 11:48 next collapse

The YPJ needs to be everywhere

TheRealKuni@piefed.social on 01 Jun 12:04 collapse

I had not heard of the YPJ before. Remarkable group!

curbstickle@anarchist.nexus on 01 Jun 15:21 collapse

…minus the child soldiers part.

TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today on 01 Jun 16:29 collapse

Tbf the labeling of child soldiers is kinda misleading considering that the vast majority of them are 15-17 years old. At that age you can join most military organizations around the world with parental permission. Alternatively most countries have military schools, where active duty military personnel are training teens to become soldiers.

sbbq@lemmy.zip on 01 Jun 12:04 next collapse

That is horrific.

Grimy@lemmy.world on 01 Jun 14:09 next collapse

After running away from her first marriage (she was married at 13). She finally got a divorce and then was told to marry her cousin who was literally coming out of prison.

How can someone care so little for their own kids. Absolutely vile.

FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world on 01 Jun 15:51 next collapse

For the same reason that American Christians would beat a gay person to death and then argue the gay panic defense in court.

They’ve been raised to believe that these made-up rules for their imaginary friend are a more important consideration than the reality right in front of them.

rekabis@lemmy.ca on 01 Jun 17:02 collapse

And gay hate is even explicitly laid out in the quran. It’s not a “fringe” thing in the least.

Viceversa@lemmy.world on 01 Jun 15:58 collapse

That’s islam for ya

raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world on 01 Jun 16:13 collapse

No, that’s people brainwashed by ideology “for ya”. You don’t seem to have the mental capacity to process that, so just try to talk to people you disagree with more, and widen your horizon.

Viceversa@lemmy.world on 01 Jun 16:49 next collapse

No, that’s people brainwashed by ideology

What do you think islam is?

raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world on 01 Jun 16:59 collapse

As I said, you don’t have the mental capacity to process what’s wrong with your comment. Try to evolve a bit.

TootTootComingThru@lemmy.world on 01 Jun 17:12 next collapse

You’ll understand one day instead of whatever this is you’re doing here.

one_old_coder@piefed.social on 01 Jun 17:13 collapse

Stop being in denial, it’s all over most holy books, and especially the one that condoned this specific murder.

TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world on 01 Jun 16:54 next collapse

Religion is an ideology that brainwashes.

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Treczoks@lemmy.world on 01 Jun 14:29 next collapse

That’s the amount of control over women that American conservatives dream of.

BillyClark@piefed.social on 01 Jun 14:33 next collapse

I sort of feel like if you choose to dance to celebrate the death of your innocent teenage relative, then you, along with whatever culture spawned you, don’t really deserve to exist.

Nomad@infosec.pub on 01 Jun 17:00 collapse

I feel you, but nobody can lose his right to exist because nobody should be allowed to make that decision. You are criticizing that they decided she was not allowed to exist and in the same sentence you take that right upon you top decide they should not exist.

To be frank: they need to be locked up, educated and reformed to protect society from them.

BillyClark@piefed.social on 01 Jun 17:23 collapse

nobody can lose his right to exist

Rights apply to everybody, even people who don’t deserve them. I said they don’t deserve to exist, not that they didn’t have the right to exist. It’s an important distinction.

A person who doesn’t deserve to exist should thank their lucky stars that they were born in a time and a place when society will let them exist, anyways.

Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world on 01 Jun 15:27 next collapse

“… in that car with three men from the family that was supposed to be her circle of safety.” In that society, no, they are not supposed to be her saftey net. Men aren’t even the same species in that society. People ask how could they… They don’t consider women as people.

Even in the western society, women generally have to live multiple lives. In public they are supposed to be beautiful and smiling all the time. In the bedroom they are supposed to be slutty (but only for their man). With children they are supposed to be saintly. In the home they are supposed to have the managment skills few CEOs possess.

Men these days are supposed to have only two personalities. At work and mixed company they are supposed to treat women like people and respect them. In the locker room, with their buddies, or behind closed doors, not so much.
That is why in some places, unmarried women are not supposed to be alone with a man. Because the men want to remove the “at work and mixed company” part so that they can drop one of those personalities. This murder is the result of taking away the time when women are supposed to be treated like people, and letting the men lean into the worst personality they can have.

ZC3rr0r@piefed.ca on 01 Jun 16:00 next collapse

While I can’t speak for the female perspective personally, nor can I pretend to speak for all men, I find the perspective you are presenting to be quite the generalization. There’s a reason people were outraged about Trump’s “locker room talk” excuse for his remark about “grabbing women by the pussy”, it’s certainly not the societal standard for men to become misogynistic molesters when they are in a safe space.

TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today on 01 Jun 16:31 collapse

There’s a reason people were outraged about Trump’s “locker room talk” excuse for his remark about “grabbing women by the pussy”, it’s certainly not the societal standard for men to become misogynistic molesters when they are in a safe space.

I mean… It does seem at least half the voters in American society were not that upset by it.

ZC3rr0r@piefed.ca on 01 Jun 17:09 collapse

If we assume that everyone who voted Trump in the 2016 elections were either okay with this or not offended enough not to vote for him, that percentage is actually more like 25-26% (He got about 63m votes in 2016 out of a voting eligible population of 243m). Still way too high if you ask me, but at least it’s not that bleak.

corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca on 01 Jun 16:06 collapse

Even in the western society,

That article is sus.

women generally have to live multiple lives. In public they are supposed to be beautiful and smiling all the time. In the bedroom they are supposed to be slutty (but only for their man). With children they are supposed to be saintly. In the home they are supposed to have the managment skills few CEOs possess.

Men these days are supposed to have only two personalities. At work and mixed company they are supposed to treat women like people and respect them. In the locker room, with their buddies, or behind closed doors, not so much.

Absolutely false in my country. Absolutely no one forces anyone to be different than they are, unless their normal state is impolite. No one says you must be a slut or a chauvinist or any of that, and I refuse to accept peer pressure as an external force guiding anyone’s behaviour past adulthood. I am sorry you live like you do, where you do, and I hope you know a better world one day.

FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world on 01 Jun 15:52 next collapse

Our species is the worst.

minorkeys@sh.itjust.works on 01 Jun 17:02 collapse

Thankfully, we seem to be intent on ensuring our environment makes us extinct.

FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world on 01 Jun 17:05 collapse

Indeed. I’m so glad I never had kids.

Naive@lemmy.world on 01 Jun 17:04 next collapse

Damn! on the one hand, humans are doing innovation in science and technology and on the other hand, such barbaric things still exist in this world.

HubertManne@piefed.social on 01 Jun 17:12 collapse

these are so far out of my experience as to seem unreal but then I see the path my society is going and this appears to be a destination that some people want.