I am scared for the kids and I am PISSED OFF at society's shunning of the raped women.
It pisses me off that some NGOs are more concerned with making raped women whose families were destroyed and shunned by their communities and are now HIV positive to forgive, but not actually, you know, trying to help them. The patronizing disregard for the livelyhood and welfare of the survivors is nothing less than sickening.
I believe the obsession with forgiveness is more about upholding the status quo than preventing more killings, because it's better for the ruling class to shut oppressed and victimized people up than address their grievances. Better to look down on someone who angry over being screwed over by the system than changing a damn thing that could make their lives better.
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Re: It sounds like its on the pro-side
Date: 2011-05-10 12:29 am (UTC)It pisses me off that some NGOs are more concerned with making raped women whose families were destroyed and shunned by their communities and are now HIV positive to forgive, but not actually, you know, trying to help them. The patronizing disregard for the livelyhood and welfare of the survivors is nothing less than sickening.
I believe the obsession with forgiveness is more about upholding the status quo than preventing more killings, because it's better for the ruling class to shut oppressed and victimized people up than address their grievances. Better to look down on someone who angry over being screwed over by the system than changing a damn thing that could make their lives better.