U.S. State Dept.: "International Day of the Girl, October 11"

Submitted by Minuteman on Fri, 2014-10-10 23:54

Link here. Excerpt:

'Unfortunately, we live in a world where girls are often not valued. Today, 250 million girls live in poverty, one in three girls in the developing world will be married before turning 18, and 62 million girls are out of school--deprived of an education that would lead to positive health and economic outcomes. Worldwide, an estimated 150 million girls have experienced sexual violence, and nearly half of all sexual assaults are committed against girls younger than 16 years of age. In 2013, nearly 80 percent of all new HIV infections among those ages 15 to 24 affected adolescent girls and young women. Thus, the consequences of failing to adequately invest in girls are enormous.

The United States understands that when a girl is kept from achieving her potential it is a loss not only for that individual girl, but also for her family, community, and country. We know that empowering girls, keeping them free from violence, and providing them with an education is one of the best ways to ensure that societies thrive. Nowhere is this more true than in Afghanistan where women and girls have persevered despite seemingly insurmountable obstacles, and made incredible gains over the past 13 years to help put their country on the path to peace, prosperity, and security.
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It is not a coincidence that girls and women are targeted by these groups like ISIL and Boko Haram. We must stand against those extremists groups that have arbitrarily targeted women and girls and subjected them to sexual violence and forced marriage. Their plight underscores the challenges we face to ensure girls grow up in a world where every girl lives a life of dignity, free from violence.'

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Have no prob at all w/ such things since indeed, girls are targeted by groups by ISIS, al Queda, etc. for specific forms of persecution. But so are boys and men. When ISIL/ISIS/al Queda show up, they start rounding up and murdering men and boys for whatever reason(s), or forcibly conscripting (enslaving) young boys. What happens to females is indeed very bad. But so's what happens to males. So where's the State Dept's "Int'l Day of the Boy"?

Naive question, yes?

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Submitted by Matt on Sun, 2014-10-12 16:17

. . . but notice that in that excerpt, they engage in typical feminist rhetoric tactics.

1) "We know that empowering girls, keeping them free from violence, and providing them with an education is one of the best ways to ensure that societies thrive. Nowhere is this more true than in Afghanistan where women and girls have persevered despite seemingly insurmountable obstacles, and made incredible gains over the past 13 years to help put their country on the path to peace, prosperity, and security."

So, the demographic that suffered the majority of deaths to make this happen had nothing to do with it, eh?

The tactic being employed here is: erasing male contributions towards social achievements

2) "It is not a coincidence that girls and women are targeted by these groups like ISIL and Boko Haram. We must stand against those extremists groups that have arbitrarily targeted women and girls and subjected them to sexual violence and forced marriage. Their plight underscores the challenges we face to ensure girls grow up in a world where every girl lives a life of dignity, free from violence."

Oh, so the reporters who spoke of the boys and men being murdered and in one case I heard, sexually tortured (circumcised w/o anesthetic against their will) by these groups must have got the genders wrong!

This tactic is: Erasing male victims of a genderless issue in order to create a monopoly of symapthy for females.

They use this BS so frequently I often find myself yelling "oh STFU" at my screen, Big Red style!

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Submitted by xtrnl on Sun, 2014-10-12 19:33