tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21266499.post80492351240601365..comments2023-08-15T09:52:16.785-05:00Comments on RainesKitchen: what do you think...RaineShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11797874960136225669noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21266499.post-13567283421032362372008-04-22T21:55:00.000-05:002008-04-22T21:55:00.000-05:00Yeah, the whole thing made me think "yikes". I gue...Yeah, the whole thing made me think "yikes". I guess my biggest problem with it is that a lot of the girls are married off before they are old enough to think for themselves or have the will to defy their parents. <BR/><BR/>And what happens to the boys? It seems that many of them are effectively banished as they approach adulthood because the elders don't want competition for wives.<BR/><BR/>None of this seems like reasonable and responsible care for children. While I agree that religious practices should be left alone as much as possible, I think society has a responsibility to protect minors, even when the harmful practices are done in the name of religion. <BR/><BR/>And, of course, the whole thing just creeps me out.Suehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17459358042575211418noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21266499.post-75963594836394111262008-04-22T18:48:00.000-05:002008-04-22T18:48:00.000-05:00I think that some of the arguments against polygam...I think that some of the arguments against polygamy came about as a means of protecting young women. Many young women who entered into polygamist relationships were raised in families that told them that it was the right thing to do. They were told that they should bow to the will of their parents and then their husband.<BR/><BR/>I think that there is an assumption that polygamy is unfair to women, and that women who enter into such relationships were either coerced or were not raised to realize that it was unfair to them.<BR/><BR/>I'm of mixed opinion on the Texas situation. While I would normally side with the parents of the children, as long as the children were not exposed to physical harm, I do have a concern about the long term mental harm to those children, particular the girls. I would find it difficult to be comfortable with having female children raised in an environment that teaches them that they should expect to be subservient to a husband who can have many wives.<BR/><BR/>It may be easier for us, as a society, to come down on groups who condone honor killings of rape victims or who insist that female circumcision (re: mutilation) is within their religious rights. After all, we can point to the actual physical harm done to the women in those scenarios. However, those situations are not much far removed from one in which a group condones second-class citizenship for women subjected to the rule of their husbands. <BR/><BR/>It is a very thin line between physical and psychological battery, in my book.Kitten Herderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15723615036218488946noreply@blogger.com