Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, the 43-year-old Iranian, is dead, although her execution, either by barbarian stoning or by a “merciful” hanging hasn’t yet taken place by the Iranian theocracy.
This and very many other women, Catholic, Muslim, or whatever their religion may be, it doesn’t matter, as no difference make their ethnicity, die every day, cut by the sharp blade of discrimination, by clitoral ablation at tender age.
Even in the abject stoning they are in disadvantage, with their hands buried, so that they can’t even try to protect their heads, unlike men.
The human species’ female is the only to be treated as inferior by the opposite, dominating sex. The way it is perpetrated may vary according to cultural roots, but not the turpitude, the perversity whose origin hides in the shades of a, say, “consuetudinary” psychopathy.
But appearances are what really count, and guilt is expiated on Woman’s Day, Mother’s Day, Valentine’s, and still – novelty of modern marketing in Brazil – Secretary’s Day. In this submission game, saints are celebrated, Holy Maries, and, still, who knows, Mary Madeleines, once they subject themselves, are beaten, have their faces disfigured with acid in some countries, and nothing happens to their aggressors.
Unfortunately, they almost always retrocede, withdrawing complaints against their men, not for pity, but because they became used to living this way, in this devilish symbiosis.
As usual, there are, indeed, the powerful ones, those with whom no one messes, either because they learned how to grab the savior buoy of politics, richness, of an intellectuality that, miraculously, could come to surface amidst the aridity of a sanctimonious indifference transvestite in mercy, or were saved after a political calculation pointed a positive balance, in the end.
Iranian Sakineh, Brazilian Maria da Penha and lawyer Mercia, one way or another, didn’t manage to get rid of the epithet of “fragile sex”, a sophism, after all.
Their men have never deserved them, Catholic Church has never honored them as equal to men. Or as complementary to them – “contraria sunt complementa”. How come is it possible to look down on and discriminate someone else who generates life, suffering the pain in parturition, while man just comes?
Eventually, discrimination and gender violence – whose worst form is rape, even among couples - once every sexual act not consented is violation, and it’s not fair obliging a woman to get pregnant, even if married – are equivalent, at least, to racism.
The Hitlerite logic that postulates a superior “race”, Arian, is the very same one that makes women earn less, and at the same time, be ridiculously celebrated as the first woman who became this or that, as it’s use to say , with an accent of false astonishment, under which a racist bias hides - “John Doe is the first black person to ascend to some social-political-economic position.”
What would Hannah Arendt say about this endless status quo? Any intelligent thing, for sure, but she would never be surprised by its perpetuation.
©Luiz Leitao is journalist in Brazil
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http://detudoblogue.blogspot.com
P.S.: Citing George Orwell, “Political language is designed to make lies sound true, murder respectable, and to give the appearance of solidity to pure wind”.
Now, let’s not forget American President Barack Hussein Obama, who supported those CIA’s boys who practiced waterboarding, and that Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney will never be punished, and we will record, again, Hannah Arendt.
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