The daughter of a family from West Africa was recently sexually assaulted by four neighborhood boys, aged 9 through 14, who admitted to authorities they planned the assault. Child Protective Services has her under their care currently while the boys are under arrest.
The police came to the scene after the happening, which was about 10 to 15 minutes long. The boys tricked her coming into shed with gum, then assaulted her. Calls were made when people heard her screaming and saw her run out with only a few of her clothes. One boy was caught by the police; the three others were later identified.
The police are saying the parents blame their daughter for the attack (a relative said that isn’t a true statement) and don’t want anything done to the boys. The father is on record saying he wants nothing done to the boys, only that he wants his daughter back. CPS will have her in custody for three months minimum.
AZ Central reports,
Phoenix police Sgt. Andy Hill, a longtime public-information officer, described the case as “one of the worst crimes we have come across in Phoenix in quite some time,” given the ages of the victim and the suspects, as well as the circumstances of the reported attack.
The girl and the four suspects are refugees from the war-torn West African country of Liberia, which, according to investigators, would complicate authenticating names and dates of birth.
Arizona Child Protective Services took custody of the girl after the July 16 incident at the apartment complex after her parents disowned her.
Hill said the parents blamed her for being victimized and bringing shame to the family.
This reaction from the father stirs up some trouble. Her mother’s reaction is in the video. The shame culture of parts of Africa are alive. Admittedly, the father explained he doesn’t understand the criminal justice system in the States as he’s only been here for five years, but his family consistently explain to interviewers how they will scold the girl for being raped and causing trouble She’s eight.
Cute girl to drunk friend sitting provocatively with a miniskirt on: Sit up, Beth, your coochie’s hangin’ out.
Drunk friend: I can’t get up. (yelling) Does anyone on this train have a problem with my vagina hanging out?
(train is silent)
Drunk friend: See? No one cares. Vaginas are like modern art these days.
Cute girl: I guess.
Drunk friend: You could take a picture of my snatch right now, frame it, make it look like Warhol, and it would sell in the MoMA for five thousand bucks. Hell, I should be charging admission fees right now. Anyone who comes to see my snatch exhibit and doesn’t buy a copy is a misogynist.
Philias and fetishes recited by Florida representative Alcee Hastings. He’s explaining the difference between being punished for acts of hate and acts of love/lust.
Everybody and their mom got pissed about this (except me because i JUST read about it sighface but maybe my mom knows about it) and now it’s on hold.
The British Government expressed alarm at the law, which applies to the 15 per cent of the Afghan population that is Shia Muslim. President Obama called the law “abhorrent” at the Nato summit in Strasbourg last week.
The Afghan Government is a signatory to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which enshrines equality in dignity and rights regardless of religion or sex. Article 22 of the Afghan Constitution also explicitly reiterates the equality of men and women before the law. The Times, 2009 April 7
The Times had a copy of a draft, who knows how legit it is, but if it is…
the law explicitly sanctions marital rape. “As long as the husband is not travelling, he has the right to have sexual intercourse with his wife every fourth night,” Article 132 says. “Unless the wife is ill or has any kind of illness that intercourse could aggravate, the wife is bound to give a positive response to the sexual desires of her husband.”
Article 133 reintroduces the Taleban restrictions on women’s movements outside their homes, stating: “A wife cannot leave the house without the permission of the husband” unless in a medical or other emergency.
Article 27 endorses child marriage with girls legally able to marry once they begin to menstruate.
The law also withholds from the woman the right to inherit her husband’s wealth.
Good thing Karzai was just kidding because that law would allow girls as young as eight to marry and start doing the hippity dippity regardless of what they want to do because their husbands want poon.
Okay, even Newsweek is talking about it: female American kids being super duper obsessed with the way they look and getting treatments to look more attractive is the norm. Apparently it is now standard for little kids to get haircuts that cost the same as 20 comic books. That’s 50$ to normal people. That is lunch for a work week spent on getting your ten-year-old’s hair did.
Consider this: according to a NEWSWEEK examination of the most common beauty trends, by the time your 10-year-old is 50, she’ll have spent nearly $300,000 on just her hair and face. …today’s girls are getting caught up in the beauty maintenance game at ages when they should be learning how to read—and long before their beauty needs enhancing. Twenty years ago, a second grader might have played clumsily with her mother’s lipstick, but she probably didn’t insist on carrying her own lip gloss to school.
Is it really that bad now? Just in the big cities or everywhere?
I admit I was totes intrigued by the idea of keeping lip-covering substances on my person at all times, but I didn’t actually put it on because it tasted bad and rubbed off in a few minutes time. When kids go beyond the comfort of being okay with their own body into the world of never being good enough before their bodies are developed — mentally as well as physically — how do they create a stable self-image? Appearance continues to change over time, and when something isn’t “right,” when something happens to tip the little microcosm in their brain to instability, how are they going to react? Is this a simple case of retail therapy training, or are we going to push the kiddles into the brain meds a bit more quickly due to the incomplete feeling created by the ideal image? How are people managing their bodies? How attainable are their beauty or health goals? Is health even part of the equation?
MANY QUESTIONS THAT I CANNOT ANSWER.
Both men and women have enough body issues and insecurities without the addition of a huge body inferiority complex. It’s called being a teenager — wanting to fit into society. There are those who pointedly go the opposite of mainstream acceptance and end up being put into the category of (extreme) counterculture or (lightly) going through a phase. Either way, we all fit somewhere. As far as I experience, that’s what normal is. It can be an active or passive process.
Being okay with the way oneself appears is an indirectly learned thing. Idk if it’s being taught well if at all. I’m guessing it’s becoming a “do as I say, not as I do” type of lesson. Saying everyone should like their own body sounds great, but when the same people saying it spend an hour on makeup in the morning, or covering their graying hair with color while making a fuss about it, it sounds a tad disingenuous.
This other part of the article makes me wonder how much is amped up anti-media propaganda and how much is real. But what if it is real… this sucks.
these days, body dissatisfaction begins in grammar school. According to a 2004 study by the Dove Real Beauty campaign, 42 percent of first- to third-grade girls want to be thinner, while 81 percent of 10-year-olds are afraid of getting fat. “When you have tweens putting on firming cream”—as was revealed by 1 percent of girls in an NPD study—”it’s clear they’re looking for imaginary flaws,” says Harvard psychologist Nancy Etcoff. [link added]
I want to know how big these studies are and where they happened because I refuse to think it’s actually going on. Da Nile. I’m in it. This commercial, however, continues to rock.
Further digging reveals some fun articles on body image and how little girls are learning how to interpret body hair. This article on MSNBC talks about ten-year-olds getting bikini waxes and one salon’s “virgin” wax deal. People are getting their kids dehaired early on to “permanently” remove pubic hair because their mothers tell them it is ugly. It becomes considered a deformity. Half the time the kids probably aren’t fully developed or aware of how their body acts in adult form.
Isn’t it enough to accept a body as being imperfect, and the imperfections give it interesting parts to learn and explore? Telling her the way her body grows is gross seems like an awful lot of stress to put on a kid. Idk. I’m throwing a lot of loaded questions out here.
Shit like this is easier said than done when kids really do have a lot of body hair early in life. Any time in life really… additional hair can give people complexes. Me and my full face of hair know that. I keep it in check. I pluck, shave, and wax random parts of my body so that I look good according to the accepted concept of attractive. I’ve had laser facial hair removal six times only to have it grow back with a vengeance. Really the only hair that bugs me is on my face. The rest I leave alone half the time. My body was programmed to have it. But then, my ovaries are programmed to create multiple large cysts that create their own painfests of inconsistent popping, literally making my body sick until it passes. Maybe the programming isn’t always right.
Who am I to tell an eight-year-old to not worry about the hair on her legs when she’s as middle eastern as I am and getting made fun of for looking different? Besides somebody speaking from experience, just another adult trying to fight the good fight. While waxing my tummy.
There’s an in between somewhere in all of this.
I have room for one diva in my life, and she is covered in hair.
So, let’s pretend it’s pretty late and you’re doing a little light reading before bed, as you sometimes do. This book is one that you bought used probably fifteen years ago and it has sat on your shelf since then. Now, you’ve decided to read it and within the first page you realize it’s one of those fantasy novels, written by a man who wants to idolize his fantasy princess dream woman. But after he gets past describing her in chapter one you think, okay. Maybe there’s a good story in this book anyway.
I don’t want to put up the scan of the book because I think my mom might read this fucking thing — HAY MOM — but you can go to lj user vandovan’s entry on the bless’ed two pages of describing what a naked Bronwyn looks like to the aroused Spikenard.
DETAILS CONCERNING THE FAIR BRONYWN
leopard’s tongue
tears of dragons
potter’s kiln
candelabra legs
snails with shells of tears
citrus and soapstone
Vandonovan’s friends did a dramatic reading of the pages, which you can download here and enjoy as I have. Even better: drawing of what this woman would look like up in hurr. Yay kids.
(11:28:32 PM) MACHELLLE: it is pubes WAS.
(11:28:42 PM) MACHELLLE: VERB AND NOUN AGREEMENT PLEAAASE
(11:29:01 PM) SJ: that is more insulting than his description of the female
(11:29:11 PM) MACHELLLE: ??
(11:29:47 PM) SJ: the lack of verb and noun agreement
(11:29:50 PM) MACHELLLE: yes
(11:29:52 PM) MACHELLLE: ABSOLUTELY
(11:29:57 PM) MACHELLLE: THE ENGLISH GEEK IN ME IS DYING
(11:30:03 PM) MACHELLLE: actually every part of me is dying
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