Honor and sacrifice

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Honor is a curtain that surrounds each individual. A curtain woven with the threads of social and moral standards defined for each community.
In some cases the tissue is dense and in others quite clear. And the curtain may be very close or very far away, making the existence of the individual is developed in an atmosphere oppressive, tyrannical, intolerant and distressing, or in an atmosphere lax, informal and relaxed.
Trespassing this curtain is dishonor to the individual. Dishonor that sometimes transcends the family and the other members of their community.

Consider for a moment in the clarity of the tissue and the proximity of the curtain that surrounds us. Is it not true, and universally accepted that the curtain that surrounds women in any society is more dense and is closer than that surrounding the men?

Trespassing the curtain for a woman is synonymous with sacrifice.

© Siegfried Modola/IRIN 

Tear the curtain and facing the world has never been, nor will be, an easy battle for women. Free themselves from oppression and tyranny to achieve equal rights and freedoms than man has been a historic struggle not without sacrifices.

But all curtain hides secrets, especially when the man from the outside is the one that breaks and pierces the dense tissue surrounding the women in some societies. When the victim becomes guilty, and the transgressor enjoys impunity, is when the sacrifice of the woman reaches its peak.

Women raped that are disowned by their husbands and forced to leave their communities. To the physical and psychological trauma of rape joins the circumstance of having to live away from their family because of the dishonor of having been raped. Abandoned women in a society in which a woman alone has little or no chance to survive, without rights, without the means to earn a living, and often, caring for the son or daughter result of the violation.

Women raped that hide in silence their grief to prevent rejection.

Women raped that are forced to marry the rapist. Fatal fate that forces them to live together with the sex offender and live with the stigma of having been raped.

Women killed to repair the honor of a family.

Society of perverse moral that to compensate for the lost honor requires a sacrifice whose victim is always the woman. Twice a victim: of aggression and of sacrifice.

An unjust system that blames the victim and protects the attacker. That is satisfied only with an extreme sacrifice: the death or a sentence for life.

Let us be even more the transgressive men who tear curtains that surround women to free them from the oppression and the tyranny of customs.

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