Comments on Womanist Musings: The Role Of The Hymen In French Marriage

You might as well get off your ignorant high horse...

2008-11-23T03:12:33.214-05:00

You might as well get off your ignorant high horse because the christian bible is filled with many acts of violence against women.

Why do you think Anon # is Christian, or thinks well of Christianity? What do the relative merits of Christianity have to do with the moral failings of the Koran, anyway? I agree with Anon 4's sentiment, and insofar as Christianity is guilty of the same things, that just means we should oppose it as well. But that's not the religion we're talking about here...

@anon #4You might as well get off your ignorant hi...

2008-11-22T11:00:16.383-05:00

@anon #4

You might as well get off your ignorant high horse because the christian bible is filled with many acts of violence against women.

@mzbitca neither side is happy to find that they a...

2008-11-22T10:57:53.030-05:00

@mzbitca neither side is happy to find that they are once again married. Both lawyers are not frantically searching for grounds for an annulment to preclude having to get a divorce. Even if one individual woman is happy the case has larger implications because it could be applied to all women. Sexual purity demands for one sex and not the other are unequal and no secular state should demand that of women based in religion.

I dont know much about this story? Was the wife sa...

2008-11-22T10:41:33.394-05:00

I dont know much about this story? Was the wife satisfied with the annulment. There could be an issue of monetary benefit that you could get in a divorce but not in an annulment?

Anon 4...your suggestion is problematic at best. Y...

2008-11-21T19:26:07.407-05:00

Anon 4...

your suggestion is problematic at best. Your statement seems somewhat islamophobic and ignorant.

Also, your translation of the Qur'an is limited at best. If you are going to speak out against something, at least know what you are actually speaking out against.

What's more, this blatantly disrespects the fundam...

2008-11-21T17:27:06.702-05:00

What's more, this blatantly disrespects the fundamentalist Muslim religious traditions of wife-beating and honor killing...

As for those [wives] from whom you fear disobedience, admonish them and send them to beds apart and beat them. (Koran 4:34)

I remember this story from the summer when I comme...

2008-11-21T15:46:12.054-05:00

I remember this story from the summer when I commented on it in my French class.

While I'm glad to hear that the fuck-all case wasn't held up in court... it's unfortunate that the marriage is still on and they have to go through all that crap again. My thoughts are with that woman.

While I fully agree on the problematic political i...

2008-11-21T14:45:54.260-05:00

While I fully agree on the problematic political implications of the annulment, what do you think should have been done? Any marriage where the husband cares that much about the hymen is pretty much guaranteed to be bad, and for a lot of these women divorce is a permanent black mark in their community (but somehow annulment isn't...).

So, for the woman's sake, what do you think should have happened?

The annulment was overturned and now they're legal...

2008-11-21T13:20:47.353-05:00

The annulment was overturned and now they're legally married and have to do this all over again? Bitter/Sweet. I'd personally rather not be trapped in a marriage I didn't wont to be in.

-Ben