The study mentioned was conducted for less than a year and by an institution associated with gender violence . How many crimes are reported in Somalia ? The study isn’t peer reviewed and is a prime example of confirmation bias .
Why mention FGM if you wont explain how it happens , who is responsible and why it happens ? It’s written in a manner to make it seem like men are cutting women . You can’t distinguish between men and women throughout a paper and not do the same for the actual practice.
On shame culture, the cases she uses are twitter submissions. How many of those cases showed the mother refusing to go to the police ? A majority. To imply men sit there and tell women just suck it up is a lie . Honour is a bs concept that Somali’s rarely follow , how many fathers kill their daughters?
If you’re going to write about a serious issue then be honest and depict the full story. You can’t confuse shame (which men also experience, as she states) or fear of word getting about, for a crazy honour based culture (South Asian). The UK government has realised they’ve pumped money into the hands of idiots who’ve portrayed a situation that doesn’t happen in the UK(FGM) and will now stop. Why can’t you see that the issue here is : the more you misrepresent things, the less help actual victims get ?
So are you denying that there is gender violence in Somalia? Do you believe that women there live in harmony and free from harassment?
There's literally no indication whatsoever that men are the perpetrators of this, the article just blames the social cultural pressure in doing it and their lack of knowledge on the repercussions
The point was that powerful well respected men use their position to exploit women, don't believe so? You can just Google it and receive countless accounts of such incidents, for every crime that's reported ten more go unnoticed and kept in secret out of shame for the victim, why do you believe the mothers don't report them? Do you truly think they're just that sadistic or doing it to avoid social stigma? It's obvious
Shaming culture is definitely there in Somalia, just look at the madhiban tribes or how women are required to wear jilbaabs despite the hot temperatures, you'll have to obey a very strict routine and standard if you're a woman in Somalia, sure you might not get honor killed if you don't fit the mold but that's a very low bar and it certainly doesn't mean you're not free of being an outcast or called a wh0re
Yes, cause being portrayed as barbarians helps Somali’s . Should worry about why you’re larping around as a man online
She's only highlighting injustice which every country has its fair share of, relax, nobody is after you or calling you a barbarian, I don't know why people feel victimized over these things, have you raped someone or carried out FGM? Probably not so stop getting worked up and being so defensive.
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