Bob Herbert has once again (swoon) written about misogyny in Punished for Being Female.
Bride burnings, honor killings, female infanticide, sex trafficking, mass rape as a weapon of war and many other hideous forms of violence against women are documented in a report released last month by the United Nations.The report, a compilation of many studies from around the world, should have been seen as the latest dispatch from that permanent world war — the war against women all over the planet. Instead, the news media greeted its shocking contents with a collective yawn.
Yup, that sounds about right. Herbert is sure to address the common argument that stuff isn't so bad for women--after all, men get killed too.
While it’s undoubtedly true that men maim and kill other men in astonishing numbers, what I’m talking about here is the way that women, by the millions, are systematically targeted for attack because they are women. (Emphasis mine.)
Thank you.
Herbert ends the piece with a call to action, bringing up all of the women's movements on the ground around the world that are underfunded and often go unnoticed.
There was a time when activists cried out for our consciousness to be raised. It’s not too late. We can start by recognizing that the systematic subordination and brutalization of women and girls around the world is, in fact, occurring — and that we need to do something about it.
And thus, the crush deepens.
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It's not unreasonable, it's been known in some parts that Bob's the man. One of my only regrets in having some of the Brooks/Tierney excrement safely ensconced inside the premium NYT firewall is missing out on him, although that's what 'connected' blogs are for.
Seems like a very reasonable crush to me. :)
this is great. last time his article was posted on feministing someone of course made sure to comment that statistically more men are killed in violent ways than women. it made me so frustrated and angry, because there's a big difference between men killing each other in wars, in barfights, robberies, etc., and a man killing a woman because she symbolizes all women. there's a difference between a totally random spray of gunfire, and spending days planning to rape and kill a woman or group of women.
good article. but unfortunately so typical of the men who have a clue about women's issues is that they completely ignore all the work done by women and feminists for years and years on these issues. As if he's just discovered this all by himself, and his call to action completely dismisses the loads and loads of hard work done by feminists (which has been ignored, as he now ignores them again). *Sigh* i guess we should be used to it...
Actually, Trish, Herbert does talk about all of the work feminists are doing, and notes that they are woefully underfunded and unsupported.
Brilliant article. A couple of pretty stupid, reactionary comments made there by men though....
Brilliant article. A couple of pretty stupid, reactionary comments made there by men though....