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November 16, 2007, 1:09 pm PST
 Quote From: dezra_93 Poor Katherine and her family. My two older cousins did the same thing. They married two Muslim men who took them completely away from their families. Years later and after eight children (each!) they are extremely miserable. One of my cousins, who was not moved to another country, finally, was able to separate from her husband, but all her children went through a lot of drama. My other cousin, in Saudi Arabia, HAS to stay, or else she loses her children, and can NEVER have contact with them again.
I hope Katherine really takes a hard look at herself in the mirror. Being a mom, I couldn't even imagine what it would be like to give birth and not have my own mother there to share in the joy of bringing a child into this world. The worst part; they HAD to marry off their beautiful teenage daughters to older men. Eeew...Katherine think about what you are going to get yourself into...this is a life changing event, not a power play for freedom against your parents.
From my perspective, it seems like the men overseas have a very cold way of treating women and consider them to be "possessions" and NOT partners. This hit me when my cousin was "allowed" to come back about four years ago, (without her children), and was describing her "mansion" that has two complete and separate kitchens. That tells me that there are two separate households in this "mansion". Obvisously, she's old and can't produce children, so the guy went and got someone younger and is producing more children! "from my perspective, it seems like the men overseas have a very cold way of treating women and consider them "possessions" and not partners"....how ignorant of you. Your perspective includes your two cousins right..my oh my what a wide perspective and experience you've had! So according to you, just because your two cousins were unfortunate enough to meet with two men who have no clue as to how to treat a woman, that ALL middle eastern men have that same outlook to women. Well let me clarify some things for you my dear. I know many women who are happily married to a middle eastern man and who treats them with the outmost respect. Just because the media potrays middle eastern people as barbarians and so on, doesn't make it true. You should think about making less uneducated construed judgements about another person's culture and maybe pick up a few books and find out what the middle eastern culture is all about. Maybe if we had fewer people like you who blindly accept what we hear in the media and who spread their hatred about a culture based on a couple of experiences, maybe then the world wouldn't be such a horrible place. Maybe then people wouldn't judge one another the way you obviously have without so much as an ounce of intelligent researced opinions. p.s. the only mistake your two cousins made was that they married men who they knew nothing about. maybe next time they will take the time to find out who they're really marrying. Whether they are middle eastern, chinese, american or british! |
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