Women should “reduce their sexual desires” because Egyptian men are “sexually weak.”
Posted by Michelle Moquin on September 15th, 2016
Good morning.
Raven: I liked your answer to Eric. Excellent examples. I will just add, because of course Eric and I’m sure other men will agree with him and say there is no such thing as “rape” culture,” don’t ever have to worry about walking the streets in the evening and fear getting raped. Hell, it’s not even about just the evening anymore because nowadays, rape happens in broad daylight.
Society accepts rape. We know this because the punishment for rape is not even close to what it should be for how horrific the act of rape actually is. Not only is the woman blamed (Reread Raven’s points again if you didn’t get it the first time) over and over again, many men get off easily because men don’t think rape is so bad. Remember what the father of the Stanford rapist said? - “That is a steep price to pay for 20 minutes of action out of his 20-plus years of life.” This is “rape culture.” And we’re living in it.
Eric, if you think a society doesn’t encourage rape think again. Men encourage men to “take it” all the time. How many stories have we read where men encourage each other to “take a piece of that meat?” How the many times it has been voiced here in the comments section. That is “rape culture” plain and simple. What part of that don’t you get, Eric?
From WAVAW:
Emilie Buchwald, author of Transforming a Rape Culture, describes that when society normalizes sexualized violence, it accepts and creates rape culture. In her book she defines rape culture as a complex set of beliefs that encourage male sexual aggression and supports violence against women.
It is a society where violence is seen as sexy and sexuality as violent. In a rape culture, women perceive a continuum of threatened violence that ranges from sexual remarks to sexual touching to rape itself. A rape culture condones physical and emotional terrorism against women as the norm . . . In a rape culture both men and women assume that sexual violence is a fact of life, inevitable . . . However . . . much of what we accept as inevitable is in fact the expression of values and attitudes that can change.
The website Force: Upsetting the Rape Culture explains how rape culture is the images, language, laws and other everyday phenomena that we see and hear everyday that validate and perpetuate rape.
Rape culture includes jokes, TV, music, advertising, legal jargon, laws, words and imagery, that make violence against women and sexual coercion seem so normal that people believe that rape is inevitable. Rather than viewing the culture of rape as a problem to change, people in a rape culture think about the persistence of rape as “just the way things are.”
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, “Until women’s health, and her body, including rights of her body, is respected, until rape is not considered “normal,” until the woman stops being blamed for the sick actions of men, and until the punishment for rape remains lenient, we will live in a “rape culture.”
We’re just lucky that the men in our country haven’t gone as far as other CULTures where men not only blame women for being too seductive, or too sexy, or too pretty, or too _______(You fill in the blank), they mutilate her genitals causing her to suffer incredibly, physically and emotionally, and for many the result is death. Why? Because men can’t handle their sexual desires.
So instead of taking responsibility of their lack of control (Hey, how about putting your dick under the knife), they mutilate the women. Yeah, men can still get their thrills, but not the ladies – they have to reduce their sexual desires because the men are “sexually weak.” Truly sick stuff.
Here’s the write from the Wash Po. It shows the reason why Islam is a dangerous cult to women. When a god is used to justify something that couldn’t be legally, or logically, or ethically.
Female genital mutilation needed because Egyptian men are ‘sexually weak,’ lawmaker says
CAIRO — It was an outrageous argument, by any measure: Women should “reduce their sexual desires” because Egyptian men are “sexually weak.”
This is what an Egyptian lawmaker, Elhamy Agina, claimed over the weekend in making an argument in favor of female genital mutilation or FGM.
“We are a population whose men suffer from sexual weakness, which is evident because Egypt is among the biggest consumers of sexual stimulants that only the weak will consume,” Agina said, according to a translation in Egyptian Streets, an English-language local news website. “If we stop FGM, we will need strong men and we don’t have men of that sort.”
So it is better for women, he continued, to undergo the brutal practice to “reduce a woman’s sexual appetite.” And by doing so, he added, women would “stand by their men” and life would proceed smoothly.
Of course, this led to a maelstrom on Twitter and other online sites.
The centuries-old practice involves the partial or full removal of the external sex organs, usually with a knife or razor blade, in a belief that doing so reduces sexual desires. The cutting can lead to urinary infections, menstrual problems, infertility and death, in addition to psychological trauma.
The practice was banned in Egypt in 2008. Since then, circumcising girls has been punishable by a prison sentence of between three months and three years as well as a hefty fine. Still, FGM remains a widespread practice here, as it is in many other African nations and parts of the Middle East.
According to the World Health Organization, Egypt has some of the highest rates of FGM, in company with Somalia, Djibouti and Sierra Leone. A UNICEF study in 2013 found that as many as 27.2 million women in Egypt have been circumcised.
The Egyptian cabinet recently approved a draft law that would impose stiffer penalties for those who force girls and women into FGM. Jail terms would range between five and seven years, and harsher sentences would be imposed if the procedure leads to death or deformity. In May, an Egyptian teenager died of complications after undergoing FGM, propelling the United Nations to urge Egypt to enact stricter punishments. The new legislation is awaiting ratification by the parliament before it can become law.
By this week, Agina was backtracking on his comments. In one local newspaper, Al Masry Al Youm, or the Egyptian Today, he clarified that his rejection of the toughening of penalties for FGM was based on how ”it is hard to apply in Egypt.”
And in a phone interview with TV host Eman Ezzuldine on Mehwar Channel that his comments were to be considered only a “jest.”
“I don’t get afraid, and I meant no offense to Egyptian men,” Agina continued. “Egyptian men are true men, and I am a true man.”
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Readers: The logic of Agina escapes me. Really there is no logic. And then after all he states, he says it was only said in “jest?” Really? Like mutilating women is a joking matter. What did I post above about “jokes?”
This too is “rape culture.”
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September 15th, 2016 at 9:52 am
Michelle, the truth is islam is a cult for men. Women are prisoners in hell. We have no choice but to say we like it. It is that or death.
September 15th, 2016 at 9:54 am
All my life I have been afraid of offending allah. In my mind he is a piece of shit invented by men to cause my terror. I am 23. I will die with this terror in my mind and body.
But if I am sure that I am dying, I will curse the bastards and their phony god out loud.
September 15th, 2016 at 9:58 am
Women of islam are either brainwashed or live in so much fear they will do and say anything to support those and this disgusting cult.
If I were caught writing this, I would be murdered by my mother. Not because she doesn’t love me, but because she never got past third grade education level. Islam is all she knows. It is her security blanket.
I hope some country bombs islam into oblivion.
September 15th, 2016 at 9:59 am
Everything terrible the West hears about islam is nothing compared to being forced to live under its tyranny.
September 15th, 2016 at 10:00 am
Michelle, your blog and the mention of your name can get a female tortured. You are considered the worst of the infidels. But to women here who are educated, you are the Saint we pray to.
Please never forget us.
September 15th, 2016 at 10:03 am
I don’t even dream of a life anymore. I have been promised(sold) to my cousin in marriage. He is coming from the US to pick me up.
It is so shameful that American traffic in sex slaves by marrying us in country after the purchase so they can bring us to America as legal brides.
When I get to America, I will run.
September 15th, 2016 at 10:06 am
Nothing prepares you for life much less sex with a man you have only met when you discover that you will me “marrying” him.
I was forced into marriage with a degenerate creep, who wanted to be sure my Clitoris had been removed so he sent his mother to check.
An underground group got me out of my country and now I am a refugee in another. Constantly aware if I am caught, I will be raped and murdered.
September 15th, 2016 at 10:14 am
Kamran#7, I too thought it would be easy to run when my owner bought me and brought me to America. I was caught by immigration and told that if I did not go back to the animal, that I would be deported.
My advice is to first learn english. Then have a baby. You probably won’t have a choice in this anyway because you will be used as often as he wishes.
Fuck the creature he forces you to have, even if it is a girl. You won’t be able to help any child if you don’t help yourself first.
Leave immediately after child birth. Go to a planned parenthood clinic if you can find one. They will help you. If you can’t find one, go to a christian church. Tell them you believe in jesus (learn as much as you can about this jesus before you go) and that your husband is forcing you to follow the islamic blasphemy. And that you want your child to be baptized.
They will help you because their jesus religion will blind them to the fact that you just want to get out of the terror of your marriage situation.
September 15th, 2016 at 10:14 am
There is no future for any woman forced to worship a man’s cult that makes him her master.
September 15th, 2016 at 10:17 am
Infidel is all i hear from my girlfriends. I have a few at the university I attend her in _______. We are constantly being watched by the religious police, lest we stray from the teachings of islam.
If only there were a god, we secretly tell each other. She would destroy these devils who force us to do their bidding in the name of god.
September 15th, 2016 at 10:20 am
I hate this cult. I had to hide to learn to read and write. Now I am allowed to go to school. But it will be only for a short while because my three sister have been forced to marry after holding out way past their “valuable” years.
Now my father has passed and my younger brother is in charge of the family(meaning the females) he says if I won’t fuck him he will sell me into marriage to the uglies and oldest man who offers him money for me.
I lie awake pretending sleep, thinking of ways to kill myself with as little pain as possible.
September 15th, 2016 at 10:22 am
Three of my sisters her on the WestBank have been forced to were explosives and their belts, coats have beed detonated by gutless men telling us we die for allah.
I will be next. Please if there is a god help me.
September 15th, 2016 at 10:26 am
Here in Iran, women hope that the men who they trust will support them when the change comes. I know better. They will use religion to say “sorry, I would love to help you become my equal, but allah says differently.”
I love my country in my dreams because there it is a utopia of equality. When I wake I hope we have a nuclear accident that destroys this cesspool of a religion once and for all.
September 15th, 2016 at 10:31 am
You lying blaspheming bitches will be caught. Stoning will be too good for you.
September 15th, 2016 at 10:32 am
Lie all you want to the western infidel. It will not help you when we catch you.
September 15th, 2016 at 10:33 am
The internet is not without its watchers. You will be caught.
September 15th, 2016 at 10:48 am
I would advice you to be careful what you divulge to your earth partner because stronger than a lover’s love is lover’s hate. Incurable, in each the wounds they make.
September 15th, 2016 at 3:52 pm
more white boy privilege when abusing women and BABIES! This has got to stop. Women, we have to take a united stand and demand the laws are changed.
A 19-year-old Iowa man who filmed himself molesting a baby girl two years ago plead guilty to engaging in a lascivious act with a child Monday and was given a sentence that could keep the teen out of prison, according to media reports.
Kraigen Grooms, 19, received a 10-year suspended sentence and five years of supervised release after federal agents said he filmed himself raping a 12-month to 18-month-old girl in 2014 and put the footage on an underground pornography website, KTVO reported Tuesday.
But an Iowa prosecutor told the Associated Press that Grooms did not actually rape or cause any physical harm to the child.
The prosecutor told the AP that Grooms was duped into the act and that the sentence was suspended in part because the victim’s parents ask that he not be sent to prison.
‘Merica aint so great
Grooms’ suspended sentence means if he does not violate the terms of his probation and does not break the law during his 5-year sentence, he will not be sent to jail. He will be required to register as a sex offender for life.
September 15th, 2016 at 7:01 pm
Grace, I just read that story yesterday and was fuming about how dismissive the people involved were about that 2 year old girl, fucking unbelievable…he should rot in living hell for what he did. I don’t care about HIS psychological profile, with no mention of the damage to this child physically or emotionally, and yes a 2 year old girl will have PTSD symptoms regardless if she remembers nothing or everything, it’s trauma. Period.
Don’t get me going about FGM it makes my blood boil. I’ve stated it before, if males are ‘weak’ or have issues with handling their carnal desires them THEY should have their eyes covered, poked out or whatever else will assist in containing their ‘problem’ … as evidenced by the comments above men don’t even need mini skirts or anything else provocative to fuel their use of women at their will.
To all of the commenters above, and the ones who have not gotten on yet today, I hope for your release from the ties that bind you and will send powerful positive thoughts that will always have the opportunity to show up here despite those threats from men above ^.
Wishing you inner strength and peace even though you’re all already much stronger than I could ever hope to be.
Rape culture abounds in the west and most rapes are occurring with ‘friends’ I chat with my girl about this a lot because until shit changes she’s got to be aware. Trusting your male ‘bestie’ isn’t always the best idea unfortunately.
CK Lewis, the comedian, said this, I’m paraphrasing, ‘the biggest threat to men is heart disease, the biggest threat to women is men, why do they even date us? It’s a risk to be near us’ and another of his truthful lines, he was talking about time travel…’…as a white guy I can go back in time bc we always run everything but traveling into the future, there’s going to be a day when a white guy steps out and he’ll get his asssss kicked and he’ll have deserved it’ …got that right.
Luv, Zen Lill
September 15th, 2016 at 7:12 pm
Brittany, thanks for the nod on self serving immature Americans yesterday but you mentioned you were republican but won’t vote for trump, does that mean you will vote for HRC because any other third party vote is wasted. I hate saying that bc I am a registered independent but without a viable third party voting outside the 2 parties is useless.
I’ll say it again, even if you do not like Hilary Clinton got whatever reason, Trump will b dangerous for the US, you can stay stuck on her emails or any number of things but I would strongly suggest you background check your guy trump much deeper, that rabbit hole will tell you a story and I hope you’ll read between the lines like an intelligent person…not a sheople.
~ ZL
September 15th, 2016 at 8:42 pm
ZL so right you are about rapes being committed more frequently by friends – or at least those we know. That’s my personal experience.
Sometimes it’s hard for me to not see all men as opportunistic creatins. I think there may be more creatins than not in the world.
September 16th, 2016 at 7:04 am
SuzyQ#21, I, too have to agree with Zen Lill. Most of my bad experiences have been near rapes by male “friends.”
September 16th, 2016 at 7:09 am
I was told that all infidels loved sex the way dogs do because the women keep their clitoris. This blog has taught me that there are strong women who have opinions they can voice without fear of death.
September 16th, 2016 at 7:11 am
When my clitoris was removed I was 7 and my mother told me that a bug had crawled inside of me and it needed to be removed. I will never forget the pain. I am 41 years old.
September 16th, 2016 at 7:17 am
SuzyQ#21, I don’t know what country you are from. I am russian. I am 24 and have been raped 7 times by men I knew or trusted. The first time I was raped by my uncle when I was 8.
I don’t trust any man. My mother says it is the curse of being beautiful. She says she has been raped more than 30 times. I have wanted to get out of this country so bad because I thought it was the men here.
Listening to you and Zen Lill, it seems that it doesn’t matter, I will never be safe anywhere.
September 16th, 2016 at 7:27 am
I have had my share of near rapes by men I trusted too. The latest was September 8, 2016 at 7:45 pm. A very good friend who was also a co-worker took me home after a office party in which I had had one drink too many. I am basically a one drink girl. But I felt safe at my office party with only friends and associates.
He took me home, removed my panty and proceeded to have sex with me. My pit bull Lucky, attacked him as soon as he got on top of me. I stumbled to find my cell while Lucky was bitting him.
The police arrived and he claimed that the dog just attacked him, but he couldn’t explain why he had his pants down and a condom on his penis.
Surprisingly the girls at my office said that I shouldn’t press attempted rape charges because he is in the hospital from the severe bite by Lucky. The men said that he should not be fired. We are senior accountants for a major company.
I have been offered a big sum by his lawyers and the firm’s lawyers to let it go.
September 16th, 2016 at 7:29 am
You infidels think that you can influence our women to deny the word of Allah. You influence only those who have lost their way. They will be punished in this world or the next.
September 16th, 2016 at 7:31 am
I live in Cairo. It is a nightmare for any women as soon as the sun starts to set. The men are out like a pack of dogs looking to grope, or rape any woman who is alone.
September 16th, 2016 at 7:32 am
I live in India. This is the worse place on earth for a woman. I don’t know a single working girl who has not been raped by her boss or some male associate.
September 16th, 2016 at 7:40 am
Bilal#27, you can stick your allah bullshit up your punk ass. I escaped to France to avoid being forced into a marriage to one of you sick sexual deviates.
You couldn’t get a woman to look twice at you so you set up that forced marriage crap. My cousin just arrived here in England after she jumped ship in a port with my help.
I will help any woman who has an opportunity to escape the terror you force upon us in order to satisfy your sexual perversions.
I am not afraid of you and your non existent god.
الله تمتص وكذلك أنتم وبقية تحيد الكريمة.
September 16th, 2016 at 7:46 am
We will not be terrorized by you men, Bilal. There is no god that would demand that half his children be subservient to the other half.
Education of females is the greatest fear of the muslim male. He knows that once a woman has learned to read any book other that that phony religious cult book, she will yearn to be free of male lies and control.
September 16th, 2016 at 7:48 am
Daisha, you evil bitch. You dare say that Allah sucks! All the Heavens shall spring to His defense as we search for you.
September 16th, 2016 at 8:00 am
نحن سوف تجد لك وقطعوا رأسك. Daisha.
September 16th, 2016 at 8:03 am
All you sick muslim men can just piss off. I live in the UK now and they have laws that keep you animals at bay.
Don’t worry Daisha, the creep is all mouth. The head that needs to be removed is the tiny one between his legs.
September 16th, 2016 at 8:04 am
Diya al Din you wish.
September 16th, 2016 at 8:19 am
#25 Svetlana, all hope is not lost, there are good men in the world.
I had one run in with attempted rape only in my teens, my own adrenal kicked in, I moved the behemoth and ran fast…(long story) but his own uncle got word of it, I worked for the uncle and he just thought I was something else so he called him out and gave him the best threat ever right in front of me, to make a point…I won’t ever forget that. It was perfect.
When the pig died face down in a pile of cocaine a decade later, I’m sure I wasn’t the only woman who said good riddance.
~ ZL