What seems to be the problem?
A lot of women in Saudi Arabia attempt suicide. Now there’s a surprise.
Within family circles, boys always get preferential treatment. What is more, there is very little or no communication between girls and their parents. The report highlights many factors that can lead women to consider killing themselves, one of them being forced marriages.
Others probably being things like no freedom of movement, no ability to walk around in public looking at the sky and the flowers and anything else that comes along, no sense of having equal rights and duties. That must get a trifle dispiriting.
Disregarding a woman’s free will and her right to choose her life can simply lead her to desperation.
Well yes. It can.
Did you notice how carefully they chose their poster case?
Re: Suicide
“Whilst it is acknowledged that there is a critical lack of statistics on honour killings, there is consensus that the real figure is far greater than what is recorded. This is because families and authorities collectively act to cover up incidents, referring to deaths and abuse as suicides or accidents.”
http://www.actnow.com.au/Issues/Honour
“Suicide is an enigmatic and disconcerting phenomenon. Because of others’ inability to directly occupy the mental world of the suicidal, suicide appears to elude easy explanation.”
plato.stanford.edu/entries/suicide/ –
Suicide! Cancer! Murder! Death! Mental Illness! Drug addiction! Illegitimacy! Homosexuality! Homelessness! Paedophilia! Sexual Abuse! The list is endless – All are TABOO subjects. People shiver in their shoes, [self-included] at the mere mention of some of them. Discussions on said subjects are by people to be at all costs, avoided – or, if talked/commented upon – one then becomes exceedingly cautious. It is as if one is almost walking on hot cinders. People are so troubled and anxious… The awkwardness displayed in people as they barely touch on the subject matters is all too evident the chillness that these proscribed [in the minds] subjects instills in people is so unreservedly irrational. Why is it – which we humans are not by society trained – from very young ages to take on board matters of the above ilk? We should not have to go through life being ignorant and apprehensive of these perplexing phenomena. We should in essence uninhibitedly be able to express ourselves. There is forever an interdict on these subjects – and it is woefully sad to say the least.