8-14-06 Women's Rights

Aside from any other glittering generalities that infest the public forum these days, one thing that I think can be used as a true test of a society's backwardness would be how they treat their women.

Here's one spin on this generally acknowledged yardstick...

http://time.blogs.com/daily_dish/2006/08/those_goatdiape.html

The post is about Iraqi shepherds being required to put diapers on their goats (I kid you not!), and how this (among several other things he mentions) can be viewed in terms relating to prohibitions regarding sex. It sheds a very bright light on why the treatment of women in any culture can be used as a pretty clear indicator of how backward they might be.

The future of any culture rests entirely upon how the children are brought up, and indeed, how the women who will give birth to those children are treated. The present-time state of any culture can also be measured by how much repression there is regarding sex.

Basic human rights begin with women's rights being exactly the same as men's rights. Wherever there's any difference, and the US government is backing the government that keeps such inequities in place, then there's most definitely no adherence to any policy purporting to support "democracy" OR "freedom".