What an "honour"

[eumelia]

Joss Whedon on the "honour" killing of Dua Khalil

For the story on the "honour" killing of Dua Kalil go here. There's a video of the attack, I haven't watched it.
I don't think I want to.

In addition, the genocide in Darfur must be stopped.

וכמו כן, צריך לעצור את רצח העם בדרפור.

Comments

[hakuzo.livejournal.com]

Sick, sick, SICK. =(

[eumelia.livejournal.com]

Absolutely nauseating.

[gonzo21.livejournal.com]

Did CNN actually air this footage?!?

[eumelia.livejournal.com]

Looks that way.

[gonzo21.livejournal.com]

No doubt claiming it was 'in the public interest' or somesuch.

Sigh.

[thecityofdis.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much for posting this. It was both warming and heart-breaking to read Joss's response, which I've reposted both here and elsewhere.

[eumelia.livejournal.com]

I know... I'm glad it's going around.

[cziganybriella.livejournal.com]

Joss' psuedo-feminism makes me sick.

"What is wrong with women?

I mean wrong. Physically. Spiritually. Something unnatural, something destructive, something that needs to be corrected."

I don't know. Maybe there's something wrong with the people that torture, stone, and rape as opposed to the people they do it to but what do I know?

I think his idea of womb-envy is petty at best and corners men in the same way Freud conceptually shanked women with penis-envy.

[eumelia.livejournal.com]

I don't think Joss is a pseudo-feminist and what he wrote there was irony and he was showing (in his convoluted way) that it IS the perpetrators who are at fault and not the victims.
Just MHO.

I'm with you on the womb-envy thing, don't agree with Freud or a Freudian backlash.

I think the problem with Joss' feminism is that he always seems a little smug about it, as though it's a novelty or something like that. I'm fan and I'm glad that I admire someone whose ideals are admirable, but sometimes his privilege does get in the way... then again so does mine, so *shrug*

[talash.livejournal.com]

what a bunch of barbarians.
also see this (http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,21603740-663,00.html)

barbarians, did i say it?

[richmondhillgal.livejournal.com]

OMG! That is awful!! Killed for being seen with someone outside your faith? For just being seen??? Thank God I live in the US. I feel so sorry for those people.