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Ha! All true! Puritans were some hardcore bastards too remember. What kind of twisted minds want to patrol and control women’s bodies?

The GOP (the party of American Taliban) have stepped in it bigly here.

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Oh, an easy question finally. The minds of those who believe in mythological creation stories portraying a woman as made from man and the bringer of original sin.

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"Just yesterday I arrested a girl for looking at me, only later to realize she was my niece", very funny. But seriously, this is just horrifying. Nevermind that women are basically slaves, but their society will just sink deeper into the stone age. And allowing multiple wives is really bad for men, too. What do the young men do when they are not enough women to go around, that is bad in itself. But they then join military and terrorist groups. They certainly do not just go get a cat. It is about an unhealthy social system as you could imagine.

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When mythological creation stories are no longer taught describing women as the bringers of original sin, it’s possible progress can be made. As for the young men with raging hormones, I think JD Vance has started selling CouchMates.

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At least Sofas are fairly peaceful!

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Other than handwringing, what can we do?

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I’m sure ‘we’, our government, does not want to be involved in Afghanistan again, but little voices like ours could call out such state sponsored misogyny.

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