Day-um, but Teh Internets are slow today. Anyway, today’s roundup includes:
- A heaping dose of patriarchal craptacularity
- Satanists for Jeebus
- Dildo cozies
- Beam me up, Scottie
- Those wacky Texans
- Coo-coo for Jeebus
First, via Feministing, an article about a family in Pakistan, whose daughters were married off as young children, in compensation for one of their relatives murdering a member of the rival family.
A village council in Pakistan has decreed that five young women should be abducted, raped or killed for refusing to honour childhood “marriages.”
The women refused to honor the agreement, so the village council have decreed that they be abducted and raped or murdered. That’s seriously fucked up. Leaving aside the awfulness of forced marriage and using rape as a form of punishment, why on earth should those women have to pay the price for someone else’s transgressions? They did nothing wrong. Well, aside from being women, that is.
Pat Robertson, that wacky Jesus Fetishisht, flashes the debbil’s gang sign. And, he’s not the only one. It looks like Lucifer has a Posse!
Craftgrrl crochets herself an adorable Flying Spaghetti Monster dildo cozy. You should go look at it–unlike Pat Robertson, it’s actually really cute.
(above) Our, um, petulant leader, trying to beat a hasty retreat from a news conference, after a reporter asked him a question he didn’t feel like answering. But, alas, the doors were locked, so he was unable to escape until an aide came to his rescue.
And, to prove that the wacky presidential nut didn’t fall far from the wacky tree, Texans appear to have banned marriage, full stop. Not that I think that’s necessarily a bad thing, mind you, but it seems like a drastic move just to rid themselves of Teh Gay Menace
Last but not least, did anyone watch the recent episodes of Trading Spouses? The one with the ignorant woman who was coo-coo for Christ? She got completely bent out of shape because the family she stayed with had mandalas, a star, Buddha statues, and gargoyles in their home. She accused the family of being “of the dark side.” Very peculiar, I thought. First, she’s Catholic. Apparently, she doesn’t realize that many Catholic cathedral and churches are adorned with gargoyles. She refused to listen when the father tried to explain to her that the things she was worried about were not, as she claimed, satanic. I can’t imagine what sort of a hole she’s been living in if she really thinks that Buddhists are some sort of Satanists. And stars? Has she actually read the Bible?
Later, she pulled the kids aside and tried to witness at them. I was shocked. I can’t imagine trying to convert someone else’s children. How presumptuous and rude! The kids weren’t interested, and the woman got upset that they were not open to exploring her religious beliefs. The kicker was that, when the two mothers met, at the end of the show, the christian woman accused the non-christian mother of trying to convert her kids! Ah, the irony.
It gets better, though. Each family gets US$50,000 as compensation. The visiting mother gets to decide how the family will spend the money. The christian mother tore up the letter from the other woman, and refused to accept the money because it was supposedly “dark sided.” She changed her tune when she found out that a large chunk of the money had been earmarked for her own use. Nice principles, eh?
red paper boat 