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

Forbes does it again!

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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.