CHILD MARRIAGE - THIS IS INSANE
How can a child
that is not fully mentally developed
be given to an adult
a man
how can a child
that is not fully emotionally developed
What they do to one of us, they do to all of us women. Today we get killed, we get trafficked, get raped, get burned, get pregnant very young, and get our dreams stolen.
A shoemaker. A fortune teller. Even in present day India, one rarely associates these professions with women irrespective of economic status. And those women who do these jobs are barely visible.
If a man stands side by side with a woman, you will easily see the difference: testosterone. We've been told that we can do anything men do, and we misunderstood.
Think about your location, geographically and mentally. You may be in America, but your mind may be in Afrika. That's what happened to me today by reading a widow's story from Afrika.
My Journal's name is Active Life. My first post's title intends to be somewhat agressive. It intends to make you think about your gender. Being a woman is pretty busy, right?.
There is an amazing man in our midst. A man so astonishing I start to tear up if I even begin to think of him. A man who has made everything possible for all of us on PulseWire.
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