#child bride

[crownspeaksblog]

Marriage in general is fucked in the middle east..

I hate hate HATE living in a country where girls being married off at 15 is seen as something to be envious of.. is seen as something to be admired for..for fuck sakes! That's a fucking child!! I remember a classmate talking about i think a cousin of hers who's 15 who's married to a 29/30 year old man and how MUCH he LOVES her and how everyday he does her FUCKING HAIR FOR FUCKING SCHOOL!!!!

i saw a video of a 26 year old mother selling food on the street to make money and the top comment on that video was a man (sincerely) offering to marry her and he had like 100 replies of people asking him if he did it already and praising him for it..

And you know what's annoying is when i try to point out how fucked up those things are.. I'm almost always in the minority, I'm almost always argued against and people try to justify something like this by being like "this is our culture"....

fuck this culture and religion because you know damn well this shit is rooted in religion.. girls married off when they hit puberty to men twice their age is seen as an accomplishment.. men being encouraged to grace widows and divorced women with their kindness and marry them like they're broken or used (even if it meant getting a second, third or a fourth wife)...

And i know to most people reading this shit it sounds like I'm making it up but I'm not and you have no idea how much i wish i was..

#God i hate living here #middle east #feminism #atheist #marrige in islam #ex muslim #child bride #religous trauma #womens liberation #arab women #womens rights #just a rant #👑

[radicalfacts]

radical facts - short feminist facts

#patriarchy

• Forced Marriage & Child Brides

Forced marriage is still a very prevalent violation of human rights worldwide, especially for women and girls. 88% of victims were women and girls.

37% of victims were under 18 at the time of the marriage. Of these, 44% were under 15 at the time of the marriage.

Each year, 12 million girls under 18 are getting married off. Most of these scenarios consist of the girl getting married off to a much older - adult - man.

The UN report (linked below) states that globally, in 2021, nearly 1 in 5 women aged 20-24 were married before turning 18.

(UN - Report "Gender Snapshot 2022"; general report on women's rights & equality worldwide)

#radicalfacts #feminist facts #forced marriage #child bride #human rights #women's rights #patriarchy #androcracy #patriarchal society #female reality #female exploitation #female oppression #vawg #mvawg #un women #report #gender equality #gender snapshot

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Edward "Daddy" Browning and his not-quite-16-year old bride, Peaches, shown on June 19, 1926. They donated a special cup to be awarded to the winner of the World's Charleston Contest at the Polo Grounds. Their marriage was one of the biggest scandals of the 1920s. It didn't last long: wed in April, separated in October.

Photo: Associated Press via the St. Louis Post-Dispatch

#vintage New York #1920s #Peaches Browning #Daddy Browning #Peaches & Daddy #scandal #June 19 #19 June #child bride

[muxamora]

in my imagination, what Je#ff manGUM does instead of like ever doing more music is Make memes like this on hE phone about his child bride

#dont worry about it #in my nhm phase for the first time in 2024 for some reason #child bride #bunny hat #Neutral Milk Hotel #in airplane #in airplanes NeutralmilkHead

[horizon-verizon]

I sent that post about Greenies crying about Alicent being a child bride/maritally raped/sexually assaulted.

I don’t understand how the point of my ask went completely over the head of darkblackgalaxy but I guess I shouldn’t be surprised at this point with Greens nonsensical defences. My point was that Alicent made Helaena a child bride - key word being child bride. Alicent very well could have just betrothed Helaena to Aegon and waited till she was older for them to marry but she doesn’t. Instead she subjects Helaena, her only daughter, to the same abuse Greens constantly cry about Alicent suffering.

Also, if Greens are going to cry about ‘Rhaneyra wasn’t any better for trying to marry her off to Jace’ (I’m basing this purely off of the show). Rhaenyra proposes a betrothed but proves she likely would’ve waited instead of marrying them as quickly as Alicent did Helaena/Aegon. Between the time that passes in Rhaneyra’s return to King’s Landing and the final episode Jace/Baela and Luke/Rhaena are still betrothed and not married. I can’t claim to know the book very well but it seems she didn’t try to marry them hastily in that either.

So, yeah, Rhaenyra is better than Alicent.

Anon refers to this POST.

Yeah, in the book/canon lore they were betrothed long before the Dance and never married. They were still betrothed when the two boys died.

Rhaenyra announced their betrothal in 118 A.C. while Baela/Rhaena (twins) were born 116 and Jacaerys was born in 114. Lucerys was born 115.

(Jace died when he was 15-16. Luke died when he was 14....just saying.)

#asoiaf #a song of ice and fire #asoiaf asks to me #character ages #fire and blood comment #fire and blood #the velaryons #jacaerya velaryon #lucerys velaryon #baela targaryen #rhaena targaryen (daemon's daughter) #rhaena targaryen #jace and baela #luke and rhaena #westerosi marriage #westerosi betrothals #rhaenyra vs alicent #alicent hightower #character comparison #child bride #aegon and helaeana

[misespinas]

“Worldwide there are 51 million girls between 15 and 19 years who are married. In West Africa, South Asia, East and Central Africa 30 per cent or more of girls aged 15–19 are already married. The percentage of girls who are married before age 18 in Niger is 82 per cent, in Bangladesh 75 per cent, in Nepal 63 per cent, in India 57 per cent and in Uganda 50 per cent.”

Sheila Jeffreys, The Industrial Vagina (2008)

#quote #book quotes #sheila jeffreys #child bride #child marriage #trafficking #radfem #radical feminism #radical feminist #liberal feminism #liberal feminist #libfem #feminism #marxist feminist #marxist feminism #intersectional feminism #intersectionality #intersectional feminist #gender roles #gender #women #woman writers #Bengali #Ugandan #Nigerian #nepali #indian #s*xual abuse

[celestialseawitch-ff]

Hey, Wondering if you are planning to finish Child Bride?? I love this story and re-read it multiple times. Thanks, Sky

Oh, boy, okay, so... I haven't made any posts about it or done anything to the stories but Child Bride is maybe, sort of, technically... going to be archived. It's not being abandoned though, but I'm sure that will be of little consequence to all the people who love the story.

To clarify, I mean that I am finished with Child Bride and am unlikely to ever update it again. I'll most likely change the title to be "Child Bride [Archived]" and then label it as complete with an author's note at the end to explain. The reason I don't consider this abandoning the story is that I'm actually maybe, sort of, technically... rewriting it?

For those of you who don't know, I started this story so many years ago. And while I was very happy with it for a long time, it's been a while since I could even look at it without being upset about a lot of different things. Part of that was community expectations. People kept asking when something would happen or something else would change when I never intended to do those things in the first place? And so I felt compelled to please so many people asking for the same things and it just radically changed the direction of the story in ways I didn't like. I felt upset when I worked on it. I didn't like where it was going.

Now, so much time has passed that the story is of what I consider to be a lower quality (in comparison to my current writing style). That always upsets me -- one of the issues I have with "As It Should Be" is this same problem. I also just, would have done so many things differently in this story if I were to write it now? Like, there are so many glaring issues with it that I just... to fix them, I'd have to start from scratch. And it's honestly a really appealing idea to me.

So, I have in fact started a re-write of Child Bride that is already so much better than its predecessor. It involves ritual magic, a better laid-out idea of pure-blood dynamics, and some other changes that I'm really excited about. It has a new name, new art. And I might do some AU one-shot spin-offs of it -- sort of like "What If" scenarios. What if Older Sirius had gone back in time with her? What if Hermione had married Remus instead? What if she hadn't gone back in time at all? There are just so many possibilities and I'd like to play with them in a bunch of different ways.

That being said. The re-write is also only ten pages, so I'm unlikely to post it any time soon.

I know how much people love Child Bride. I have no intention of deleting it at any point, but in my opinion, that story can't go anywhere from where it is. I do have a good fifteen to thirty pages that haven't been posted yet. So one day, once the re-write is posted, I'll probably put that up on tumblr (the re-write is still using some things from the OG version, so I don't want to post spoilers!).

Anyway, I'm sure this is not news anyone wanted to get today and I'm very sorry! If it makes everyone feel better, maybe I'll post a tidbit from the re-write on here?

xx

#celestialseawitch #asks #child bride #I'm so sorry #i should have expected this to happen #someone was going to ask eventually #welp #here we are

[werkboileddown]

#child bride #shirley mills

[sympathywreath]

#child bride #inland

[anythingeverythingm]

For some unknown resons, big age gaps still surprise me when it comes to history. Like when I see the ages of the bride and groom I still get shocked. I will never not be surprised and enraged at them.

#thoughts #history #women in history #medieval history #child bride #children

[thefoxsbookofdays]

24th February

#child bride #birthday

[aneddoticamagazinestuff]

Luc Descheemaeker: Moglie bambina

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Luc Descheemaeker: Moglie bambina

Facebook sta affrontando critiche negativissime  dopo che il social network stesso è stato utilizzato da una famiglia nel Sud Sudan per mettere all’asta una sposa bambina, anche se è illegale in Sud Sudan sposarsi prima dei 18 anni. Leggi articolo originale

#Child Bride #Luc Descheemaeker #Luc Descheemaeker fumettista #Luc Descheemaeker illustratore #Luc Descheemaeker vignettista #mettere all'asta #moglie bambina #sposa bambina #Sud Sudan

[horizon-verizon]

Has been pointed out often already, but I heavily doubt anyone on that side of the fandom is motivated by actual feminist ideals to support Alicent because of caring for her show-only child bride storyline. They easily deny empathy to canon child brides when they fall into "Targaryen foe" status in their eyes, as it becomes horribly obvious in their treatment of Dany. They cynically see it as bargain chip to shut down criticism of their trad/anti-Targ fav and IMHO that's what it was written for.

#asoiaf asks to me #asoiaf #a song of ice and fire #asoiaf fandom #hotd fandom #green stan nonsense #green stans #child bride #hotd #house of the dragon #fandom commentary #fandom critical #targ antis

[misespinas]

“Some fathers from the Lebanese community in Australia traffic their daughters to Lebanon, where they are married to relatives at ages from 14 upwards (Harris, 2005). The girls do not know the purpose of the visits.

Some manage to get to the Australian embassy, demanding to be returned home. In one case that was reported in the media a 14 year-old girl turned up at the embassy with her suitcases saying she had been married against her will at 13 and imprisoned.”

Sheila Jeffreys, The Industrial Vagina (2008)

#feminist quotes #quotes #sheila jeffreys #the industrial vagina #radfem #radical feminism #radical feminist #libfem #liberal feminist #liberal feminism #marxist feminist #marxist feminism #uk feminism #us feminism #trafficking #child bride #australia #misogyny #s*xual abuse #s*xual assault #child r*pe

[wolfythoughts]

Book Review: Elvis and Me by Priscilla Beaulieu Presley and Sandra Harmon

The King of Rock and Roll’s first (and only) wife’s controversial memoir of their time together. Summary:Decades after his death, millions of fans continue to worship Elvis the legend. But very few knew him as Elvis the man. Here in her own words, Priscilla Presley tells the story of their love, revealing the details of their first meeting, their marriage, their affairs, their divorce, and the…

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#book #book review #child bride #elvis #elvis presley #memoir #presley #priscilla #Review

[ex-cogtfi]

In this excerpt from "Not Without My Sister", Celeste Jones recounts how David Berg (CoG founder) married himself, on his bed, to a group of pre-teen girls, including his own granddaughter. Karen Zerby (Maria Fontaine), his wife and the cult's current leader, "sat and watched" while her husband "married" and violated the children.

#cogtfisurvivors #child grooming #child bride #cult leader #karen zerby #david berg