Message from rosanna_elgohary

[Anonymous]

Deceiving an innocent and naive community can and is profitable. It is unfortunate that women are puppets in a man’s world. Men who make the rules based on their perceptions, beliefs, needs, and desires.

The question about using women to prostitute, young women in particular, and why not older women was discussed. It was said that the fear of aids was one reason, and older prostitute has had sex many times compared to a virgin. However, the most important reason was that men had to protect their heirs to inherit their land. Everyone needed to know who their sons were. These traditions continue today.

Push-pull factors are real and strong, they are the reason why people become victims and are forced to chose, sometimes even if they know it is morally wrong. Mostly, these people are so closed off from the world and don’t know what’s really out there. Glamour, money, power, and position win over morality, traditional and religious values.

A discussion between colleagues today was split if we need to know the “why/cause” of a situation/problem. In this case it was about trafficking. I believe it is important to know the “why.” We need to know so that it doesn’t keep happening over and over again, plus we have to know what cause the problem so that we can solve it. I also believe that trafficking has been so profitable to men through monetary and sexual pleasures; they have received all the benefits on this one. Trying to justify it by saying that it has happen for so long you can’t change it is a cop out. Another excuse was that men work so hard and long hours that they can use women who are trafficked in by other men is also a cop out. Get married men, or is the responsibility to much? Maybe it is easier for SOME men to use women and throw them away after they get what they want from them. It is really sick that a man who knows right from wrong, and who practices Christianity, Islam, Confucianism, and other religion or ideology that says one should be loyal to his family could go out and do this with someone as young. Men should think about their sisters, or young daughters, and if they would want them to be trafficked. Men should start to reevaluate their purpose here on earth and if they are really protecting the human rights of women and children.

Sorry, I have to disagree about criteria on what makes a resource valid. We teach our kids to find reliable sources and its importance to do so. We also teach them to think critically. I often go against the grain on things like this. If we are teaching our kids to think critically and question authority, how can we do that if we only accept scholarly hierarchal resources? How about the dirty little secrets that are kept under the rug that are found out by people who have moved the rug to sweep them out? I’m talking investigative reporting, people with personal experiences, or just a regular common person. As a photographer, I have learned many tricks, both on the camera and on computer software. I can erase a person from a picture or add in people, backgrounds, change what the person is wearing, etc. Example we took by authority what Rumsfeld, Powell, and even Bush endorsed on those photos of so called massive destruction in Iraq. Without people questioning it the truth would have never been investigated and found out that there were no massive weapons of destruction. Those are authoritative resources and we take it for granted that what they say is true. So if we’re really teaching our kids to be thinking critically and questioning authority we need to accept other sources than those they say we are supposed to.