I was hoping to see a much larger response to Alise's article.  I've always said that you can tell the degree of civilization of a group of people just by how women are viewed and treated.  I never got why it is always the women that need to be controlled.  But since we have wombs, and population could not continue without us, maybe that's why.

My husband once asked me about the veils in eastern countries.  He said jokingly, "Are their women so ugly that they have to hide their faces?"  I explained to him that women are seen as the temptress, that even a glimpse of wrist is considered so dangerous to a man's ability to control his impulses that she must be fully covered.  And when a woman is raped, it is because she tempted the poor innocent man and is often executed.

Not long ago, I was watching my favorite true crime channel and they aired an "honor killing" segment.  This guy killed his sister because she was raped and that shamed the family, hurt them so much that he had to kill her for the good of the family.  He got three years for that.  When asked if he felt his punishment was just, he waid absolutely not, he did nothing wrong.  He compared a woman to a glass or a dish and said when it's broken, it's useless, same for a woman.

I believe that there's more behind the "War on Women" than meets the eye, and it all goes along with other things I see happening.  If poor women don't have easy access to birth control, they will have more children.  Going to war with Iran seems to be popular among the GOP.  The corporations that moved their factories overseas because they didn't want to pay a living wage to Americans now want to come back to the states because they see their profit margins slipping, but they have gotten spoiled paying slave wages and they do not want to pay more over here. Otherwise moving back to save shipping costs wouldn't even make sense profit wise.  At the same time, there is a push to abolish unions, and some are even suggesting abolishing minimum wage.  So, if more poor children are born, there will be more young people to fight their wars and to work in their factories for pennies.  Mark my words, it's not just a "war on women" but a war on poor people and they want more to use and exploit.