Kudos to Time Magazine
The Taliban pounded on the door just before midnight, demanding that Aisha, 18, be punished for running away from her husband's house. Her in-laws treated her like a slave, Aisha pleaded. They beat her. If she hadn't run away, she would have died. Her judge, a local Taliban commander, was unmoved. Aisha's brother-in-law held her down while her husband pulled out a knife. First he sliced off her ears. Then he started on her nose.
This didn't happen 10 years ago, when the Taliban ruled Afghanistan. It happened last year.
Read more: http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2007238,00.html#ixzz0v63izry9
Thank you Richard Stengel for having the guts to hit America in it's collective gut. His reasoning and preparation are a study in a journalistic thought process. Click Here for his message to readers.
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I’m glad that Time decided to become a news magazine this month instead of selling Obama 24/7. This story is important and the more people that see it the better.
HOWEVER, we need to set the record straight. The story was told earlier this year by a WOMAN named Atia Awabi, who works for CNN as an international reporter. The photo below was taken from that story.
The CNN story included:
Awabi, the CNN correspondent who first told the story earlier this year is based in Kabul. She says "If you are moved by [this] story you can help by donating to womenforafghanwomen.org." (The story was later picked up by ABC.)
Women for Afghan Women has posted info on her story, including :
You can watch a video about Aisha here:
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2010/03/17/iyw.afghan.bibi.aisha.cnn
You can read the CNN story here:
http://afghanistan.blogs.cnn.com/2010/03/18/shaming-her-in-laws-costs-19-year-old-her-nose-ears/
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http://feministing.com/2010/07/30/on-times-courageous-cover/
Civil Discourse - ERA - A Mother President - Women's Rights - Primary Reform
with the argument that women's bodies shouldn't be displayed to justify military aggression.
By that reasoning it's okay to ignore brutalized women. Well, maybe not okay to ignore them but they should remain hidden in the interest of an unemotional response. Women's pictures, evidently, should never be published unless they're dolled up to the nines. If they're disfigured they have no business on the front page of a magazine. Hearing a little snark here, are you?
Waste of Feministing's webspace if you ask me. Congratulations (for a change) to TIME. You don't suppose they're going to come crawling back to the real world where most of us live?
It reminded me of the feminists that defend the wearing of the burqa. Somewhere, somehow, the movement took a sharp downhill turn.