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eonweheraldodemanwe · 8 months

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Something is deeply wrong in ASOIAF when the most normal couple in terms of age is the Stark/Tully betrothal.

Ned and Cat were one year apart (Brandon two) and they waited for Cat to be at least 18.

#asoiaf #a song of ice and fire #child brides #george went overboard with them

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vague-humanoid · 9 months

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SACRAMENTO —

The marriage certificate appears unremarkable — another piece of government paper. But Mandy Havlik keeps a copy of it as proof of her past.

It was issued by the state of Arizona in 1999, a week after her 17th birthday. Her parents, strict Pentecostal Evangelical Christians, had pressured her to marry a 23-year-old suitor, an aspiring preacher at their church, she said.

Engaged at 16, Havlik had tried everything to avoid the marriage, she said, including running away from home. She was too young to be married under state law without parental consent, so her mother granted it despite her allegations of abuse against her now ex-husband.

“I was told I was ruining God’s will for my life and ruining my ex’s destiny with God as well,” she said.

She and about 20 other women traveled to Sacramento this summer, wearing white wedding dresses outside the state Capitol. Some of their mouths were taped shut and chains were wrapped around their wrists; veils blowing in the wind. They were there to call on state lawmakers to outlaw child marriage.

In California, the age of sexual consent is 18 without exception, and anyone over that age engaging in intercourse with a minor can be charged with statutory rape. But the state’s definition of unlawful sexual activity between an adult and a minor only applies if they are not married. That creates what some advocates see as a loophole in which the act of marriage can sanction what would otherwise be a crime.

While child marriage is recognized as a human rights violation by the United Nations, there is no minimum age requirement to become married in California. For minors seeking to wed, however, the state requires approval from a guardian and a court order.

The policy comes as a surprise in liberal California, home to some of the strongest sexual violence protections in the nation. What’s more surprising is that opposition to a prohibition on marriage under 18 has not been driven by Republicans as in other states but by progressive groups including the ACLU and Planned Parenthood — both of which have sway in the majority-Democrat Legislature.

Among their concerns is that a total ban on marriage of minors could be a slippery slope and impede constitutional rights or reproductive choices, including access to abortion.

“That pretty much made it clear I was not going to be able to do this,” former Democratic state Sen. Jerry Hill, who attempted to ban underage marriage in 2017, said of the unexpected opposition from the influential groups.

Another attempt to ban marriage until 18 without exceptions will be introduced in the Legislature early next year.

Hill, of San Mateo, called discovering that child marriage is allowed in California — and the fight against his attempt to ban it — “the big shock of my life.” He became involved in the issue when a young constituent told him about a 13-year-old at her school who was engaged to be married to a 28-year-old in another country.

“I was amazed and appalled and frankly ashamed of California, that we had not done anything about this,” he said.

In Havlik’s case, the pressure to be in a relationship with her ex had been on since she was 12 years old and he was 18, she said — a move she believed was done so that her family could have more prestige in the fundamentalist church.

Church officials did not return a request for comment.

#child brides #cw csa mention

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horizon-verizon · 11 months

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White Americans calling Muslim countries barbaric and backwards when child marriage is literally legal in most US states. 300 000 children were married in the United States between 2000 and 2018, the vast majority of whom were underage girls married to older men. Approximately 60 000 occurred at an age or involved a spousal age difference that should have constituted a sex crime. Some were as young as ten.

Great points. People going after trans people and drag queens when they are the same ones trying to get the minimum age requirement lower in many states show clearly their priorities and interest in controlling female bodies of any age.

#not asoiaf #abortion rights #misogyny #child brides #us politics #us society

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geezerwench · 1 year

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Republican groomers

#typical republican #gop groomers #Granny Bobo #lauren boebert #matt gaetz sex trafficker #matt gaetz #west virginia child brides #west virginia #child brides

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mooniethings16 · 1 year

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Today me and my mother were talking about the fact that a couple of decades ago, many women would get married at 16 and my mom mentioned she knew a girl who got married at 12 (in my country at least)

I was disturbed, obviously cause That's fucked up

And then she started saying "well that's better honestly" and i was like wtf .. and then she said "well at least like that she can satisfy her sexual needs and then nobody will talk shit about her or call her a slut as she grows older"

I got so upset and told her how wrrong she was but her words kind of broke smth inside me cause... what the hell? I know mom isn't perfect, not as a mom ant not as a person but i didn't realise that she actually agreed with child maryying

Then she started saying that if i didnt had academic talents she would had married me to smoeome??!! (Im 16?!)

And i hate it cause every time i try to convince myself maybe she isnt bad she says shit like this

#mommy issues #child abuse #i don't know how to tag but fuck my mom at this point #fml #child brides

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canadianabroadvery · 1 year

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“... Hers was neither a love marriage nor an arranged one. Nazima was kidnapped from her home state of West Bengal and transported 1,600km (1,000 miles) to Kashmir, where she was forced to marry a man 20 years her senior who had paid her traffickers $250 for a bride.

With his death, Nazima has been left to support her children alone as she contemplates an uncertain future...”

#slavery #child brides #human rights #childrens rights #human trafficking #india

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harvestheart · 2 years

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The allegations facing the Kingston Group come after the state of Utah effectively decriminalized polygamy between consenting adults in 2020, making plural marriage an infraction similar in gravity to a speeding ticket. However, if a spouse is coerced or underage in a plural marriage in Utah, it becomes a felony.

#Utah #polygomy #fundamentalist mormonism #religion and spirituality #religions #slavery #indoctrination #child brides

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springsteencore · 2 months

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what the fuck is happening to all my friends. 24 is too young to get married…

#child brides

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carolinemillerbooks · 1 year

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New Post has been published on Books by Caroline Miller

New Post has been published on https://www.booksbycarolinemiller.com/musings/the-story-of-wicked/

The Story Of Wicked

We know how it feels…to be a non-being, confined in a cage..to always be known by the name of our father, brother or husband, and have no identity of our own. This lament from an Afghan girl could be chiseled on the gravestones of most women throughout human history. Female oppression is so pervasive, it seems normal in many societies. When prejudice is common, it becomes invisible even to the oppressed. Some women may see the evil yet defend the practice. Low status is better than no status. India’s attempt to rid itself of child marriages illustrates the dilemma. Mothers living in poverty see the reform as threatening. How are they and their offspring to survive if their daughters are no longer assets but additional mouths to satisfy? There is no one to feed us. I don’t know if my family can survive, one mother wailed despite her knowledge that child brides die in greater numbers than older women. Treating women like cattle takes a subtler form in western cultures. In this country, state legislators think nothing of proposing bills that intrude upon a woman’s privacy. Abortion bans are common, but in one state, women not only must carry a fetus to a term like a dairy cow but their menstrual cycles are subject to public record. Few women, rich or poor, educated or uneducated escape the patriarchy. When a Fox news reporter fact-checked Donald Trump’s claim that Arizona’s voting machines had “rigged” the election in 2020, she exposed his statement as a lie. To her surprise, her male colleagues took umbrage and demanded that she be fired. Management listened. Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott said the reporter had a serious nerve doing this and if this gets picked up viewers are going to be disgusted. In the end, the reporter withdrew her statement and gave the truth to a lie. Another case concerns CNN newscaster Don Lemmon’s recent comment about Nikki Haley. When she announced her decision to seek the presidential nomination of her party, his reaction gave women of all persuasions a reason to blanch. Nikki Haley isn’t in her prime, sorry. A woman is considered to be in their prime in 20s and 30s and maybe 40s When he linked a woman’s worth to her reproductive years, he sounded like a member of the Taliban. Recently two female heads of state resigned from their high office. Scotland’s first minister Nicola Sturgeon gave her reason. …the brutality of life as a politician had taken a toll on her New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Arden’s made a similar confession. She hadn’t enough in the tank to carry on. Helen Clark, Arden’s New Zealand predecessor understood. … in this era of social media, clickbait. And 24/7 media cycles, Jacinda has faced a level of hatred and vitriol which in my experience is unprecedented in our country. Were these women of weak character? Their circumstances weren’t amiss. Neither faced strong opposition in an upcoming primary or were touched by scandal. Yet, they turned their back on power and took a stand against the growing meanness in the world. Perhaps these women are outliers of a feminine way, one that rejects the will to power and the shibboleth that might is right. If we listen, we can hear those savage drums, too. To protect the young in a crumbling economy, one Yale professor proposes to euthanize Japan’s elderly. Texas, legislators plan to strip Chinese American citizens of their right to own land, even a home. The wickedness leveled against women over the centuries has taken its toll. Discrimination, once it’s legitimized, seeps into every corner of society. A civilization that draws strength from this form of hate and fear lacks cohesion and will implode. That’s what Scotland’s Sturgeon and New Zealand’s Arden want us to see. Power for the sake of power corrupts. Power used for the common good heals. One day, should this truth find a wider audience, women will find themselves at the forefront of change. Having freed themselves, their instinct will be to achieve that freedom for others. What will it be like, this world with no aliens? Without wars of conquest, insurrections, or mass shootings, what might we witness? I suspect what we will see is children laughing in the rain.

#abortion laws #child brides #Chinese Americans stripped of land rights #Donn Lemmon'sNikki Haley comment #enthanizing Japan's elderly #feminine values #Fox News #Hellen Clark #India's move against child marriages #Jacinda Arden #menstrual cycles as public record #Nicola Sturgeon #Nikki Haley #patriarchy #prejudice against women #Suzanne Scott #Taliban #the rigged Arizona 2020 election

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madpatti · 4 months

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Some slasher art I did in 2023 :)

Hope yall have a nice new year❤️

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selenevassos · 7 months

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY, BRIDE OF CHUCKY!!!

#cinema was born on this day 25 years ago #yows #bride of chucky #chucky #child's play #sims cat breakdancing #tiffany valentine #jennifer tilly #animation

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ventiswampwater · 8 months

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I didn't become the greatest actress of all time and win multiple Oscars, but I'm super happy where I'm at. Not a lot of people have had this kind of longevity, and there's not many parts out there for women my age that are as rich and varied. I get to have sex scenes and kill people and pretend to be a master criminal. I mean, can you imagine me playing a grandma?

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JENNIFER TILLY (September 16th, 1958)

#luv u mumther 💗#jennifer tilly #tiffany valentine #child's play #filmedit #horroredit #chuckyedit #bride of chucky #seed of chucky #curse of chucky #mine #september birthday girlie supremacy!!! u love 2 see it #she's everything forever. tbqh

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jim-webster · 2 years

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No older than you need to be

I was lying in bed one night, I had somehow drifted awake. I lay there listening to the rain drumming on the roof of the barge. Before I drifted inconsequentially back to sleep, one name occurred to me. Madam Nita Horsefall.Madam Nita was, and here I must insist, is, somewhat older than me. I was a young poet when I first met her and confess that somehow we ‘hit it off’ from first meeting. She…