Women's holocaust

WTF are you talking about? The stork brought me!

Back to the subject at hand......

If I remember my European history (and I do ) the TOTAL number of witches executed (usually hanged, BTW) was somewhat less than 150,000 in Europe AND the Americas over the 300 year period between 1400 and 1700. Between 75 and 85 % of these would have been women.

A "women's holocaust"? Hardly. Idiotic, nasty, tragic, ignorant? Yes.

I have to say that it is also a mistake to compare the oppression of Jews to any other genocidal occurrance in modern history. Jews were not only murdered by the Germans in WW II, they suffered immensely throughout modern history in Europe. The Polish underground generally refused to help in the uprisings by Jews against German oppression. When asked why, one resistence leader answered "After the war, we won't have a Jewish problem."

Jews were plagued in eastern Europe by repeated pogroms, their ghettoes were be assaulted for no reason by gangs intent on robbery, rape and wholesale slaughter. Jews were blamed for everything from infanticide to crop failure, and Jews often paid with their lives. When the Black Death came to Europe (killing at LEAST 35% of the population between 1347 and 1351) jews were held responsible over a large part of Europe, and many places completely expunged their Jewish population with fire and sword.

This repeated itself as the pandemic continued in 10 or 20 year cycles.

No other people I know of has suffered such oppression over so many centuries.......and that should not be belittled.

Martyr



Do you see the irony?

And what are you doing later?

Very cute, Toro!!!lol!

Hey man, it's not my body!!!Like I've said before "product of environment".Have you noticed any other peticular avatars???

Anywayz, It appears that either I have misunderstood or been unclear about somethin'.

As for the "over-sexed" thang , if I was gonna have children(which I wouldn't dare to do in this world at this point and judging by my posts' response you'll all be happy ), they would be having sex by the time they are 5 yrs old . If you don't see a problem with that...

The Martyr

Not much has changed. In the Arab world the women are teated badly and if the Born Again Christian crowd had their way the women of this country would once again be ruled with the iron fist of the Lord.
The problem is not with politics, or religion really, it has everything to do with a great number of insecure men who feel powerless if women have an equal say in anything. I have always told my daughters and grand daughters to stand up for themselves, don't let men or circumstance or tradition define you to a secondary role in anything.
Imagine today anyone saying things like Behind every great man is a wonderful woman.....what a load of crap.
I believe we must achieve, neither mens nor womens right we must still fight on to secure human rights in this country that are equal.
What the hell I have seven kids and eighteen grand children what do I know.

Women will never be equal until they take their proper place in the frontlines of our armed forces. Canada has lost a female soldier in Afghanistan this year. Unsettling but proof there is movement in the right direction. You can't expect to be equal if the sacrifice expected is not.