Two women found guilty of attempting to have sex have been caned in Malaysia’s conservative north-eastern state of Terengganu, in the first punishment of its kind.
The two women, aged 22 and 32, were caned six times each in the Terengganu sharia high court just after 10am, after the sentence was read out.
The caning was carried out in the courtroom and was witnessed by up to 100 people, including the public.
While women in Malaysia have been caned for sexual offences in the past, such as adultery, rights activists say this is the first time two women have been caned for attempting to have sex.
“The punishment was shocking and it was a spectacle,” Thilaga Sulathireh, an activist from the Malaysian rights group Justice for Sisters who was in court on Monday told the Guardian, “For all intents and purposes it was a public caning.”
Dress modestly and cover yourself appropriately. Don’t buy into the myth that modesty is relative to culture, or that modesty has nothing to do with clothing. You are worth more than sexualization and objectification, and our brothers are worth more than needless temptation.
women and girls are sexualised and objectified no matter what we wear, stop victim blaming it’s fucking gross
interesting how males are never told to be modest. only women deserve to be sexual objects if they don’t dress in a bed sheet.
If women dress modestly then men fantasize about ripping away her modesty and get off on the shame and embarrassment she feels from being exposed. Absolutely everything can be fetishized by men. There is no winning, no magic trick that will change their behavior.
great addition. there’s no lifehack to keep yourself safe from male violence.
“Don’t buy in to the myth that modesty is relative to culture” how can OP be this stupid? Of course culture is where our ideas of modesty come from, that’s why it is different in different cultures and not something we are born with.
Does OP think modestly dressed (usually Muslim) women are not objectified? She’s spewing exactly the same nonsense you hear in a mosque.
Modesty is absolutely a cultural construct. The parameters of modesty are dramatically different from culture to culture and throughout time. There are countless peoples who were forced to cover themselves and adopt Christian mores (of that time period) surrounding nudity. Even within christianity and its numerous sects, ideas about nudity vacillate.
There are literally countless examples that prove modesty is relative, but here’s a tiny few.
Himba women
Khoisan woman
Yanomami family
In 17th and 18th century Europe, having ya tiddies full out or covered only by sheer lace was very fashionable.
Celtic/Pictish people purportedly went into battle nude and were tattooed/painted all over.
In the 15th and 16th centuries men wore codpieces to basically give the appearance of a weird perma-boner.
“Samantha, I noticed that your “fun-o-meter’ is stuck in the middle. Why is that?
“Well the robots are cool, but why aren’t there any girls?”
“Why couldn’t the long lost brother be a long lost sister?“
“And how are all their disparate technologies able to connect to each other?”
“Doesn’t like boys!”
“Doesn’t understand robots!”
“That’s”
“That’s not what I said!”
Damn.
Cartoon Network is getting too damn real
That’s pretty goddamn ironic from a network which cancelled a superhero show because it was watched by too many girls, due to belief that it’s impossible to market superhero merch to girls
I’m fairly sure that’s the joke.
(Also the network doesn’t make the show – people may not realize that Cartoon Network isn’t a giant conglomerate cartoon factory and actually consists of tens of thousands of individual creators, many of whom spend a significant portion of their day wondering what can we sneak past Cartoon Network?)
At least that’s what I’m like when I write for them. Zing!!
the internet can be a terrifying place for young girls. A lot of what you see online is stuff you cant process until you’re older, and now that I’m an adult I look back and I realize how fucked up the interactions I had online were, and how those incidents had real life repercussions when I was still a minor. Protect girls.
It’s terrifying how much of girlhood is looking back in retrospect and realizing how inappropriate it all was.
Big Mean Sweaty Dyke 