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In reply to the discussion: Taliban edict to resume stoning women to death met with horror [View all]slightlv
(2,884 posts)I also agree given time, our own home grown xtianist religious extremists will do it to us. Men in the US are every bit as afraid of and hostile to women as these Taliban. In fact if they could get away with it right now, they'd strip us of all our human rights. Like the insurrection, it's a slow moving coup against us... slow until it hits that pivotal point where everything is lost all at once. Just as with these women, many of us have tried for years to raise the slarm... only to be given that old female slur of hysterical... and then they took away our bodily autonomy.
If there were a way to do it, I'd like to see men's levels of testosterone brought down. While it wouldn't change everything for the better, I can't help but think it would bring down the violence in the world by a measurable amount. Hmmm... since they stripped us of our reproductive rights, maybe we should demand this of men in order to live in a little more peaceful world. It might make it a bit safer for women at least... and men could begin thinking of something beyond sex and violence. Just my opinion... after 69 years, a bit of a jaded one, to be sure.