Actually, you really didn't Pathfinder. The sad thing is that in a lot of third world countries a daughter is just another mouth to feed. They are sold to brothels to support the family. Hell, Thailand (though they've gotten better) and Cambodia sell junkets for peadophiles to come sleep with (read rape) 12 and 13 year olds. Calling them whores offends me. They didn't choose this crap. Hell, even here in the good old USA, I defy you to ask any middle school student if she wants to be a prostitute. I'll pay a Glock a head for positive answers. Yet the term whore lingers, as though the woman is to blame for men valueing her just for pussy. Why didn't she wear a bhurka (my real beef with Islam)? Its the johns that should be stuck with the disgusting name. Men who pay to use women's or grls bodies are purely scum, and it just points to the sexism in society that there isn't a word for them. Femininist, Christian, Libertarian, former aid worker rant over.
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We're all aware of how screwed up many of the world's cultures are - one of the big reasons people try to flee there and get in here - but honestly, should we weep for 10,000 years of prostitution in all of its ugly forms? It is a part of human history. Should it be? I ain't going there, pointless discussion.
Yours is a classic mindset that sees things through filters - as we all do - but dysfunctionally so. It reminds me of the Marxist Anthropologist I heard back in the very early 70's. Every cultural artifact was analyzed through the communist filter - everything. Absolute nonsense and even as a grad student it was obvious even to me just how nonsensical it was. Your so-called feminist sensibilities are blinding you to the realities of the world, the lifestyles they live. Yes, the Chinese kill thousands of baby girls ever year. Yes, the mooslim world treats its women disgustingly badly. Yes it is abhorrent. And yes I think the death penalty is only a start for people who molest a child - for any reason. I am aware of my filters, and if it is important, I can view events and minimize (not eliminate) the effects of the filters.
But, the points of all this are:
- the world is screwed up - always has been, always will be
- people are screwed up - ditto; and it's only slightly your parent's fault
- deal with those facts best you can - all you can do is to try hard not to be what you despise, although as Mel Brooks once said in his 2000 year old man routine - we mock the things we are to be
- try not to force others to drink your particular brand of tainted kool-aid
- bho and Congress are screwing up this country, turning us into a 3rd world country with many of the 3rd world's problems coming within 10-15 years tops
- America is standing by and watching it happen
- even at my advancing age, I would hope to be a 3%-er somehow
- I hope, but mostly pray, that I will never have to
be a 3%-er