V-Day anyone?

[Hoovie]

Does anyone get involved with V-Day?

http://v10.vday.org/

There are guys now going to these events even though this started as a "girls only" fundraiser/support group.



V-Day is a global movement to stop violence against women and girls. V-Day is a catalyst that promotes creative events to increase awareness, raise money and revitalize the spirit of existing anti-violence organizations. V-Day generates broader attention for the fight to stop worldwide violence against women and girls, including rape, battery, incest, female genital mutilation (FGM) and sexual slavery.


There is alot of info on the site, but I found this part interesting. It seems to agree (at least partially) with a Prolife perspective.
Female Infanticide
As defined by UNICEF
Female infanticide is defined as the abortion of a fetus because it is female or the killing of an infant by a relative because it is female. Infanticide has been practiced as a brutal method of family planning in societies where boy children are still valued, economically and socially, above girls. Anecdotal evidence suggests that outright infanticide, usually of newborn girls, takes place in some communities in Asia. Medical testing for sex selection, though officially outlawed, has become a booming business in China, India and the Republic of Korea.

[CC1]

I have pledged not to beat my wife on V day.

[Cindy]

Sad but true Stephen. A lot of people don't realize what goes on in the world. And what some probably don't realize that people that come to the US bring their culture's with them good and bad. So along with our own homegrown violence against women, we now have some new beliefs being practiced here. And it's that it is just tradition so that makes it ok.

[Sherri]

I read a book a few months ago entitled "Slave" about a girl from Sudan who was captured and enslaved for years in Saudi Arabia and then in London before she escaped. I am now reading "Disposable People" about the new global slavery around the world. It is fascinating, but horribly sad! The interesting thing is that the new slavery is not based (usually) on racial divides, but on economic destitution. Very interesting book!

[Sherri]

Ok, the further I get in this book, the angrier I get. I am wading through the section on Thailand now, and it is unbelievable that parents will knowingly sell their daughters into sexual slavery to get about $2,000. The women there are considered lower than just about anything, just objects to be owned. I think it's worse there than in Africa!

Anyone know any missionaries in Thailand?

[Cindy]

Isn't it horrible Sherri, and some of them are not even teenagers, the youngest I heard about was 9 I think. It is very common in Asia and I think some in the Phillipines.

[Hoovie]

Originally Posted by Sherri

Ok, the further I get in this book, the angrier I get. I am wading through the section on Thailand now, and it is unbelievable that parents will knowingly sell their daughters into sexual slavery to get about $2,000. The women there are considered lower than just about anything, just objects to be owned. I think it's worse there than in Africa!

Anyone know any missionaries in Thailand?

I have not read that book but know there is a place called Phuket, Thailand is well known to provide sexual escapades with very young boys and girls for wealthy Americans.
It is also a haven for transexuals and doctors performing sex change surgery.

Sick sick sick.

[Cindy]

This has happened some in the US Sherri, but not to that extent. Some addicts sell their babies and children to strangers for drugs, or I guess that would be using the barter system. And some american girls and women are even going to some foreign countries thinking they are getting a good paying job and it is really sexual slavery. I have seen some documentaries that will make you so angry and sad about how some children boys and girls are treated. But girls seem to be singled out more than boys.