Anne Hathaway is celebrating Valentine’s Day by dancing. (One Billion Rising)
We, too, are invited to rise up from our jobs, duties,
tasks, and dance, demanding an end to the terrible violence perpetrated against
women and girls. Apparently the
United Nations, even, will suspend their deliberations, depart the building and
go out into the streets of New York City and dance to draw attention to these
horrific acts. If dancing were all
it took for us finally to open our eyes and see the broken and battered bodies,
then shame on us for not recognizing this sooner. Go Anne!
In itself, permitting these acts to go on attests that we
have not climbed too far from the “soup” out of which some hypothesize humans
slithered.
Nevertheless, many folks are doing what they can to stop it.
(International Justice Ministry) It’s never
enough for the ones who have been brutalized today, though.
Violence against women is an evil epidemic, also destroying
the humanity of the men who do such things. Ms. Hathaway’s portrayal of a young woman brutalized by life
and other men and women illuminated the anguish long borne by millions upon
millions of women. The numbers
of humans harmed by our ignoring the atrocities is overwhelming!
But I don’t get the connection that dance parties will
succeed in raising awareness and inciting action against personal perpetrators
of domestic violence. Will the people who brutalize others now restrain
themselves because women dance? Or, will many of us enjoy the dance parties,
then congratulate ourselves for caring about hard issues without actually
having to stop a beating?
Oh. Would this be a good segway into the topic of
sex-selection abortions? (Wiki link)
background on one billion rising
background on one billion rising
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