Aw, gee, look how enlightened and sensitive and generous the man is when he explains why husbands have to beat their wives. It’s interesting, though, that he doesn’t also explain why wives have to beat their husbands, or even say they do have to beat their husbands. Apparently it’s just men who get to do the beating and women who get to be beaten.
The purpose of the beating, he says earnestly, is to warn the wife that the family is in danger. He doesn’t explain why that can’t be done just by saying it, or how he knows the family is in danger, or in danger from what. Also that the marital relations are in danger, he goes on. It’s odd that he thinks beating her will remove the danger. We secular weirdos think that marital relations should be based on affection, not beating. Beating doesn’t promote affection.
The beating is to tell her to be cautious.
Well, yes, the way fire burning is to tell you to be cautious. The beating might tell her to get the hell out of there if she can.
The beating should be symbolic, he says.
Symbolic of what, dude? The fact that you are always right and she is always wrong? What if that’s not the case? Eh? What if she’s right and you’re wrong? What if you have irreconcilable differences and there is no right or wrong, there’s only disagreement? Where do you get off assuming you’re always right and she’s always wrong?
We know where, of course. The Prophet Station.
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11 responses to “The purpose of the beating”
Ophelia, who are you talking about? Is there a link missing?
Whoops! Yes there was; sorry!
“I’m beating you to warn you of the danger to our family. The danger is that I might beat you to death.”
Fill in the blank test.
“Wife beating should be ________”
The correct answer is “non-existent.”
Anything else is domestic terrorism.
Somebody should check on his wife. And the rest of his family.
Maybe just get him away from them altogether.
And revoke his medical licence.
He’s in Gaza, what medical license do you think he has to revoke?
Love how the Twitterer is nakedly posting in a “see how bad these people are” with the implication that the Israelis aren’t. No, the Israelis are not as morally deficient as the Gazans, but as a Westerner I view that as a low fucking bar to clear, so not by nearly enough.
Birds of a feather with old testament Bible / current testament Tanakh. The whole pack of ideas makes my skin crawl.
All right, Ahmed, I am going to write you a prescription. Beat your wife twice and see me in the morning.
@Holms:
Well the Mohammedans and Papists stole most of their bad ideas from the [insert anti-religious but non-ethnic slur for members of the Jewish faith] though they definitely invented a few of their own.
Amazing, huh, how many of the replies here utterly ignore the intent of the entire post, and take it as a chance to attack Jews. There are a lot of really sick people in the world, and these are some of them.
Two, from one poster.