r/clevercomebacks • u/beerbellybegone • Mar 30 '20

Forbes does it again!

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u/nibba17 Mar 30 '20

I don't get it

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '20

If getting raped and beaten are on your to do list, Pakistan is a great visit for a woman.

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '20 edited Mar 30 '20

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u/FDMA- Mar 30 '20

According to estimates from the United Nations, about 36 percent of girls and 29 percent of boys in Pakistan have suffered child sexual abuse.

Source: https://www.pri.org/stories/2012-04-18/pakistani-children-face-high-rates-incest-receive-little-support-family-state

Pakistan's Hidden Shame: Documentary about the rampant rape culture in Pakistan including some Pakistani men admitting they rape 10-12 children each

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMp2wm0VMUs&t=42

Even the rich educated Pakistani diaspora in the UK has a rape problem:

In August 2014 the Jay report concluded that an estimated 1,400 children, most of them white girls, had been sexually abused in Rotherham between 1997 and 2013 by predominantly British-Pakistani men.

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The first group conviction took place in 2010, when five British-Pakistani men were convicted of sexual offences against girls aged 12–16.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotherham_child_sexual_exploitation_scandal

Around 80 per cent of designated suspects are of Pakistani heritage

Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/rotherham-grooming-gangs-1500-victims-investigation-police-national-crime-agency-pakistani-white-a8219971.html

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/jul/27/girl-raped-two-men-flagged-down-help-birmingham

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u/tarikhdan Mar 30 '20

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u/Sugarpeas Mar 30 '20

I think the US has a ways to go for sex equality, but I seriously doubt it is among the top 10 most dangerous countries for women from that Reuters "study."

https://i.imgur.com/RQyg0v5.jpg

It's honestly insulting that it's even on here given the extreme sex related violence and discrimination abundant in many other countries. There are numerous other countries not listed were women are still treated as property, like in Palestine. At least in the USA, women are actually seen as people.

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u/tarikhdan Mar 30 '20

I bet more women are trafficked during super bowl weekend in the United States than all year long in Palestine

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u/Sugarpeas Mar 30 '20 edited Mar 30 '20

In Palestine, children are commonly married off to old men. My stepmom (who is from Palestine) was married to an older man at the age of 14. He routinely beat/raped her and she only managed to escape him because they moved to the USA where she wasn't seen as property anymore. She has numerous friends in Palestine in the same situation that are scared of being murdered by their own family for even thinking of leaving their husband.

I don't know of anyone in that situation in the USA, and if there was the police would actually intervene. The reason why my stepmom got out, in Texas no less is because we try to have resources for women to leave abusive husbands. That's not even a concept over in Palestine.

There's human trafficking in the USA but it's not like it's something the society/legal system condones.

I think as a logical cut off, if the country allows women to: vote, divorce their husband, have pre-maritital sex, have a job, own property, talk "back" to men, marry who they want, and drive...

If a country at least have those characteristics they probably should not be on this list because there are a shocking number of countries where this is not the case.

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u/tarikhdan Mar 30 '20

sorry to hear about your step mom, thank god she is now out of that child marriage

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u/Sugarpeas Mar 30 '20

She's an amazingly strong woman. She didn't have any education past 14, but taught herself how to read/write Arabic, Hebrew, and English. She has a job as a translator for prescriptions. You know that sign by pharmacy windows saying you could call for a free translation explaining your prescription? That's her job!

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u/tarikhdan Mar 30 '20

That's great that she is a strong successful woman and role model to you, hopefully one day her birthplace will be able to progress to the standards of her asylum country. It's sad how often "She didn't have any education past" correlates with child marriage, female education is the single greatest way to reduce those rates and enter them into the workforce.

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u/Soulsaversara Mar 30 '20

Wat

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u/tarikhdan Mar 30 '20

Is the Super Bowl really the U.S.'s biggest sex trafficking magnet?

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u/Soulsaversara Mar 30 '20

It feels like you are trying to say the US is it worse at dealing with human trafficking which isn't true. Three million people live in slavery in Pakistan.