Swapping Connections
Over the weekend I sent Sunday’s India Knight to RC2 to file under “It’s Only Women” (it wasn’t a time for grim subjects for me, given what I was preparing to catch a plane for), and she just put up a post on the subject, making this connection:
Neither Allen nor Knight makes the connection between “do it yourself” –hidden– abortion and the enabling of sexual abusers, so I will. That’s the main problem with making the “morning after” pill an OTC medication, too. Great news for abusers
Which made me make a connection that I wouldn’t have ordinarily thought of:
A couple years ago the British government decided to make it easier for people to vote at home, because so many Muslim women were being disenfranchised, since their husbands wouldn’t let them out of the house to vote. So rather than start a campaign to tell the husbands they were being anti-social, undemocratic cretins and jerks, they let the wives take their ballots home, where of course they still can’t vote, but where their husbands tick the box for them. Well done. Not exactly sexual abuse, but the same concept. They’ve made the cretinous jerk husbands twice as powerful, politically, and made the women that much more hopeless about their situation. Ridiculous.
October 17th, 2007 at 1:01 am
That’s very good ninme. Levels of voter fraud in areas with large numbers of Pakistani immigrants were appalling. Of course, because the Labour party was the chief beneficiary, the government’s done as little as possible to rectify the situation.
October 17th, 2007 at 5:03 am
Fraud of what type? Where I used to live, the Labor Party would go through the death notices to check for the recently deceased who had not yet been taken off the voter register.
October 17th, 2007 at 7:13 am
That’s very helpful of the labour party where you are. Very civically-minded.
But in this case it’s not that they’re not doing anything, they’re making it worse. And they’re kicking the women in the teeth doing it.