While it is Memorial Day out here in the sand box and we had no fireworks, no bbq or a day off I believe there was still reflection. Reflection that after so long trying to bring change and help a struggling society, there is still a mortality rate of 1 in 5 women giving birth in some parts of Iraq. Why? Because they would rather their wife die then let a man touch them or treat them. The ideal that a nurse is considered "a loose women". Because she works at night and has to be in contact with other men. Doctors and nurses that have to have body guards at work because so many of their compatriots have been killed or just left. This is yet just one example of the struggle of an overbearing and sometimes ignorant society. So why are we here? You know....I would like to think it is for the children and the people in this society that are just trying to survive. Some of these people claiming religious laws ....I wonder just how much of it is over political power struggles.
We have lost friends, brothers and sisters, fathers and mothers for them......
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Nurses are 'loose women'! Bah... as a woman (and a feminist) this raises my hackles of course.
But...history bears this out on our side of the pond as well. Prostitutes were recruited and trained as nurses to get them off the street in the late Victorian era in both the US and the UK.
Amazing how much willful repression there is in our modern world in almost every country on the globe.
Willful is such a strong statement! In the middle east, a woman gets her cabbie license. It makes headline news.....however, she must wear the full head burka while operating her vehicle. A man can and will cut in front of a woman in line at the grocery store. Of course, we will not even talk about the pay issues. So, be thankful America that we do not live in or tolerate such a society on our home front!
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