that there is not even a modicum amount of hard data on any of this stuff from the Middle East? So how can you compare?
The data SHOULD be ratio based since the populations of various countries is vastly different. The US is a country of over 300 million...I wouldn't be surprised if we had more rapes than, say, Saudi Arabia. But proportionally to the size of the population? That would be interesting to know...
Even if you WERE able to survey women here, I doubt you would get accurate info because women here probably think it's impossible to be raped by your husband, that sex with his wife is his RIGHT...so even if their husband forced them, they would never describe it as such.
And c'mon, advocatefk....are you seriously trying to pretend that the female domestic workers here don't get men pawing at them and taking advantage of them sexually? I personally know of this happening several times here in Qatar, one of those time even with a MALE worker and a male sponsor...so don't get me started on the messed up situation here regarding sexuality and power/control in the sponsorship system here.
Puleeez!!
AND if we're going to talk about teenage pregnancies, I would definitely think the Middle East is heads and shoulders above most western nations, seeing as they marry at such a young age here.
My point is, as others have said, the US and Europe and the entirety of the western world is NOT less civilized, less moral than the Middle East. We talk more openly about our problems, and you're taking pot shots at us because of that fact.
Play fair.
"Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise."
-- Maya Angelou
that there is not even a modicum amount of hard data on any of this stuff from the Middle East? So how can you compare?
The data SHOULD be ratio based since the populations of various countries is vastly different. The US is a country of over 300 million...I wouldn't be surprised if we had more rapes than, say, Saudi Arabia. But proportionally to the size of the population? That would be interesting to know...
Even if you WERE able to survey women here, I doubt you would get accurate info because women here probably think it's impossible to be raped by your husband, that sex with his wife is his RIGHT...so even if their husband forced them, they would never describe it as such.
And c'mon, advocatefk....are you seriously trying to pretend that the female domestic workers here don't get men pawing at them and taking advantage of them sexually? I personally know of this happening several times here in Qatar, one of those time even with a MALE worker and a male sponsor...so don't get me started on the messed up situation here regarding sexuality and power/control in the sponsorship system here.
Puleeez!!
AND if we're going to talk about teenage pregnancies, I would definitely think the Middle East is heads and shoulders above most western nations, seeing as they marry at such a young age here.
My point is, as others have said, the US and Europe and the entirety of the western world is NOT less civilized, less moral than the Middle East. We talk more openly about our problems, and you're taking pot shots at us because of that fact.
Play fair.
"Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise."
-- Maya Angelou