WTF South Africa? WTFF?

[danalwyn]

If you were wondering if the world is still a fucked up place, well then I have your answer; it still is.

The survey size is small; the survey itself is geographically limited, but still. One in four? One in four? And more then once? I don't have to crunch the ugly statistics for you to get an idea of what this means on the victim side of the equation.

Witty and scathing are both failing me here. Maybe arson would be more apt method of demonstrating my opinion.

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[danalwyn.livejournal.com]

I'm familiar with the virgin curing AIDS one, and it's always ugly.

I think it would help if there was some kind of consistent authority; without it I doubt if a better situation is going to get better. But I don't know the answer on a scale that doesn't involve the word "generations".

One of the problems with sexual politics is the conundrum that it seems, historically as well as now, men are just better at the direct application of violence, and they're holding onto their advantage into the age of firearms. Until you restore some measure of rule of law, there will be no time to establish any sort of the institutions that in the developed world that allow for correction of excesses. Women's rights can only improve in these places if there is some force that can stand up to the violence (organized or disorganized) that will be directed against it, and I don't know where that can come from.

The problem is that I don't see how this order can be projected from outside except by a process that takes centuries, and I don't see that being viable.

This makes my head hurt, and makes me remember why everyone hates African strategy.