The Rape of Congo
Stumbled across this article in NY Times via boingboing just now.
Violence and discrimination against women, during war time or not, is not something exclusive in Africa only. It’s widespread everywhere. You hear about things like rape victim in Saudi getting sentenced to additional punishment for appealing previous court ruling, or even worse, rape victim in India being killed by her own family members for being, uhm, raped. And if that doesn’t make you lost faith in humanity yet, a political figure in my beloved country, a slightly more civilized country you might say, once said this and this is a direct quote: If you cannot fight rape, better lay down and enjoy it. It is after all, the women’s fault.
Don’t just feel bad. Do help.
Sometimes I wonder whether things will be different if Jesus is a woman, Led Zeppelin is a girl band or if Cleopatra/Mark Anthony beat Octavius in the Battle of Actium. When one traces back to the timeline of human evolution, or the theological history of ones own religion testament, when exactly did any knowable occurrences even remotely state or merely suggest that a man is more superior than a woman?
