this is why we have castration

recently, an islamic militia in somalia stoned a 13 year-old girl to death. the militia members forced her into a pit in an athletic arena, buried her upto her neck, and stoned her. at least once, nurses dug her out to pronounce her still alive, so she could be reburied and the stoning could resume.

this girl's brutal murder goes beyond anything i've heard of in just plain barbaric cruelty, and i live in a country with more than its fair share of serial killers. no other record of human depravity has stayed with me like this has. it's the young age of the victim, her poverty, her powerlessness, her vulnerability versus these powerful, armed, grown, intolerant, hateful men. she never had a chance.

the motive is pretty clear, at least to a woman's libber like myself: the girl had reported to this militia, which is a substitute for any actual government in the area, that several militia members had raped her. the militia killed her, in a brutal way, to silence her and intimidate every single female still living. don't report rape, the militia has told every woman under their "jurisdiction".

i think of this poor girl, named Aisha Ibrahim Duhulow, slowly, painfully, degradingly dying by people throwing rocks at her. i think of how much blood, bone, and brain matter must have been splattered all over before she died. i think what kind of mindless piece of shit can actually submit a child to such a thing, a child who had already been horribly wronged. it is actually quite plain- it is themselves these militia members really hate, and violence against women and girls is a convenient substitute for taking out their self-loathing on themselves.

misogynist literature is full of references to women tempting men, bringing their downfall, emasculating men, etc. men are especially repulsed by the "power" women have over them sexually. men hate that they can be attracted to women who they hate, or who don't want them. men hate how difficult it is to control their sexual urges. men feel less than human in lust- they constantly refer to sexual attraction as throwing off their civilized, "human" selves and feeling like beasts. men have always resented women for this feeling, because men have always blamed women for the feeling. that it originates in them is irrelevant. that a man can learn self-control is irrelevant. it is woman's fault he feels lust, and less than human. it is woman's fault that he can lust after a woman who doesn't want him. and woman must pay. that 13 year-old girl who died a bloody, painful, horrible death represented to these miltia men everything they hate about themselves. she was somebody to blame, so her rapists could deny being animals not only to the public, but also to themselves. in the end, based on the press this is getting, they have only fooled themselves, and only until the next girl comes along.

so here's a little poetic justice, because this particular group of dickheads is muslim. how ironic and yet perfectly fitting is it that we call men who treat women and girls this way pigs?