High and Dry, by Martha Thomases – Brilliant Disguise | @MDWorld

August 14, 2015 Victor El-Khouri 7 Comments

It has been a discouraging week to be a woman, or at least the kind of woman who likes to feel like a complete human being and not a walking receptacle for sperm.

There is this, explaining how ISIS turns captured women and girls into sex slaves, a source of revenue and an enticement to new recruits.  It’s not like ISIS is so great to captured men and boys.  They kill them.  However, ISIS kills them because men are peers.  They are foes and must be stopped.

Females are just to be fucked.

A captured woman is more than a simple sex toy, however.  She is also someone with a womb, which can be developed to manufacture more soldiers.  As the article says, “Just about the only prohibition is having sex with a pregnant slave, and the manual describes how an owner must wait for a female captive to have her menstruating cycle, in order to ‘make sure there is nothing in her womb,’ before having intercourse with her.”

This, clearly, is an extreme view.  The vast majority of Muslims don’t believe that women — even infidel women — exist to be property.  It’s not something most Americans believe.

At least not at that extreme.  There are still far too many people in the so-called “civilized” West who think women are put on this earth solely for the pleasure of men.  We can’t be trusted to take charge of our own bodies, but need a Nanny state to intercede with our medical care.

And through it all, we must be beautiful, or at least not offensive to a man’s eye.

To me, the most unhappy part of Donald Trump’s campaign (and there are so many) is that his method of debate is to bully.  If you disagree with something he says, he calls you “stupid” or “a loser,” rather than actually discuss the ideas.

For example, Trump wants to build a wall between the United States and Mexico.  I might point out (as several have that most undocumented immigrants entered the country legally, so a wall wouldn’t make any difference.  Or I might point to these facts that undocumented immigrants aren’t really the most pressing problem we face.

Donald Trump doesn’t address facts that disagree with his opinions.  Instead, he calls you a name.  And, if you are female, the name he calls you will probably reflect his appraisal of your physical desirability.

Rosie O’Donnell disagreed with him.  He called her “fat” and “a slob.”  Megyn Kelly dared to ask him a question.  She had blood coming from her “whatever.”  Hillary Clinton “can’t satisfy her husband.”  This isn’t something new for him.

Does Donald Trump sell women into slavery?  Are religious people who want to control women’s reproductive rights the same as head-chopping terrorists?  No.

But they share a lot of the same perspectives.  And we ignore that at our peril.

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