Sounds pretty pro-woman to me...

Not surprisingly, there's been a lot of commentary about the idiotic court ruling that found in favour of a 12-year-old who petitioned to overturn her father's punishment by grounding:

"The girl's parents are divorced, and after she had an alleged row with her stepmother, her father barred her from going on a school trip to mark the class's graduation from elementary school, the newspaper reported.

"When he said, 'OK, it's final. You're not going,' she smacked the door, left and went to live with her mother," the father's lawyer, Kim Beaudoin, told CBC News.

Last Wednesday, the father received a motion petitioning the court to overturn the punishment.

Two days later, the judge ruled the punishment was too severe because the girl had already been sufficiently disciplined, Beaudoin said."

Acrimoniously-divorced parents, one of them playing the kid like a pawn to stick it to the other. It's an ancient game that gets played by both sides -- in this case it just happens to be the mother's hand on the joystick. Anyone with their head completely screwed on can see this petty, vicious bullshit for what it is; whether it's being done by a mother or a father isn't the issue.

Unless you're a fetus fetishist. The *gals* at "Pro-Woman Pro-Life" were rolling their eyes over the case just like I did, but couldn't resist flashing a little misogyny with this exceedingly pro-woman comment:


Right. And behind every Catholic altar boy is a... aw, fuck it, what's the point.

A little good news

The Saudi Arabian woman recently sentenced to 200 lashes and 6 months in prison for "allowing herself" to be gang-raped (but of course!) has been pardoned:

"Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah has pardoned the victim of a gang-rape whose sentencing to 200 lashes caused an international outcry, a Saudi newspaper said on Monday." [...]

"The 19-year-old Shi'ite woman was abducted and raped along with a male companion by seven men last year in a case that piled international pressure on the government to step in.

Ruling according to the strict Saudi reading of Islamic law, a court sentenced the woman to 90 lashes for being alone with an unrelated man and the rapists to jail terms of up to five years.

The Supreme Judicial Council last month increased the sentence to 200 lashes and six months in prison and ordered the rapists to serve between two years and nine years in prison."

Apart from the ridiculously oppressive law that led to a victimized woman being charged for what amounts to her own rape, the court seemed to miss the fact that she wasn't there by choice -- she was abducted. Well darn her for allowing herself to be abducted. Oh well: in places like Saudi Arabia, women take their tiny victories where they can.

Now if we could hear about a reversal of the non-sentences handed out to the rapists of a 10-year-old Aborigine girl in Australia last week, and the firing of the racist pigshit of a judge who claimed the child "probably agreed" to it, my week would truly be made. Maybe there's a chance, now that the case has drawn worldwide attention to a widespread culture of abuse.

(h/t: bastard.logic)