11/20/2005: Woman is your friend
 

http://cellar.org/2005/womanfriend.jpg

This appeared a while ago, and I might have even posted it elsewhere. It's more of a "WTF" thread image than IotD, and I don't have any further information on it. Anyone else...? Anyway, there's a Sunday image for you.

They may be oppressed, abused, &ct., but don't they have beautiful teeth!

It was part of an antiabuse campaign in Monrovia, IIRC. :neutral:

Monrovia huh?

Certainly a model of former american culture.

I've seen posters like this in Vanuatu. They are displayed in the police station there. Quite funny with the broken english "You Betta the wiffe you staya ina here", we had a little giggle.

beating her with the buckle end of the belt while she has one tit hanging out...is that considered abuse?
The toddler's about to grab him by the cahones anyway.

Just noticed it say "A woman...", not A Wife...
Does that mean it's OK to beat your wife or is woman inclusive? :rolleyes:

The sign must mean if a woman is your friend and you have a child with her, it's improper to beat her ass with a belt and rip her clothes off*.

It doesn't say anything about a wife.

* - Unless of course, she's into that sort of thing.

Kind of disturbing. Brings up all kinds of feelings--the most prominent one is the feeling that if some man hit me, it'd be the last time he'd hit me.

The cultural tolerance of abusing women in some parts of the world is unbelievable. The "right" to abuse women exists at a very deep cultural level in some places and is not a function of attitudes as it is here in America.

So I think the remedy that works in America (an attitude adjustment) will not be effective in certain other places. IMHO, the "right" must be revoked at the cultural level before one can expect any change at the attitude level.

Ironically, the message in the sign almost does nothing to address either the attitude or the cultural tolerance/justification. Its not much different than telling a man to stop beating his dog but instead to take better care of it while offering no motivation for doing so. So sensitive to the feelings of the woman beater, it does not even go as far as saying that its wrong. Not a terribly effective campaign I don't think.

Its very bizarre. What admonitions are they going to post next? "Your child is smaller than you! Beating on it is not fair!" or "Your husband is a person, too. Do not poison his food!" or "Nice people don't kick their dogs!" ?

What are we coming to when we have to put up signs admonishing people to behave as normal human toward one another?

And depicting the woman with breast bare? :eyebrow:

Oh, yes. We want to excite our audience, no? Imagine he beats her until she begs him to f*** her, or, he simply rapes her--isn't that what is behind all of this? The sign-maker/"artist" of the work seems to be slyly winking, doesn't he?

Yes, Brianna I think you've caught what is disturbing about that sign! It slyly equates violence with sex! Give the little woman a good beating, then kiss and make-up. After all, you can get a woman to do whatever you want in bed if she's terrified of you. Oh, barf!

Maybe.

I've read this thread and viewed the picture every time there's been a reply, and frankly, that vibe never occurred to this man. Maybe it's the insensitive male chauvinistic pig blinding me to the message you're describing...

But I don't think so.

Would that be considered "flirty"? If so, 1 in 3 Britons believe she would be partly or totally responsible if she were raped.