Love laughs at locksmiths...

[ajva]

...oh - unless the locksmiths happen to be antediluvian fucking barbarians unworthy to be alive in the 21st Century, of course.

Can't we do more about this? Please?

Can't we find a way to be more interventionist that won't also be counter-productive? How can this keep happening in our country? Time and time again we hear if it. I'm sick of it.

Comments

[jhg.livejournal.com]

I should point out, of course - echoing one of the correspondents on the page which asrana links to - that I in no way suggest that abuse is peculiar to Kurds, Muslims, or any other particular cultural or racial groups.

But abuse in such quarters, within the UK, is especially hard to deal with due to a whole load of issues too numerous and obvious to list right now.

[ajva.livejournal.com]

No, abuse in general is obviously not peculiar to one cultural or racial group.

However, this particular *kind* of abuse is peculiar to particularly misogynistic cultures and we should not be afraid to say so.

The CPS website says:

Delegates heard that most honour crimes in the UK involve South Asian families but cases have also featured Middle Eastern, West African, Turkish, Bosnian, Kosovan and Roma families.

OK, so sexism is endemic in most, if not all, human cultures. However, as a freeborn white Scottish woman, I am totally free to be as goddamn adulterous as I please, and not risk death. This is liberty. There is a huge bloody elephant in the room here.

[jhg.livejournal.com]

Yay! I want a pet elephant!

By the way, what is the locksmith reference?

[ajva.livejournal.com]

It's not a reference to anything in particular; it's just an old adage in the Omnia vincit Amor line.

[jhg.livejournal.com]

Righto.

Do I go to hell for thinking, just for a second 'Gene Hunt would sort the buggers out'?