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Chechnya's leader Ramzan Kadyrov has urged men to stop their wives from using WhatsApp after anger over a police chief's forced marriage to a 17-year-old spread on the messaging service:
"Lock them in, do not let them go out, then they will not post anything," Ramzan Kadyrov was quoted as saying. Mr Kadyrov had earlier backed a police chief's marriage to a 17-year-old, even though he was already married, in apparent violation of Russian laws. His chief of staff has since proposed legalising polygamy in Chechnya.
Mr Kadyrov, an authoritarian leader and close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, has in recent years outlawed the abduction of brides and underage marriage. He is also thought to be in favour of polygamy. His top aide Magomed Daudov said: "It all has to be in keeping with Sharia: But if a man can support more than one wife, then why not?"
Before Saturday's ceremony, local media reported that police chief Nazhud Guchigov, 47, had prevented Kheda Goylabiyeva from leaving her home and threatened her family with reprisals if they did not hand her over.Mr Kadyrov denounced discussion of the marriage on WhatsApp in comments broadcast on local state-run TV. "Stop. Behave like Chechens," he was reported as saying. "The family honour is the most important thing. Do not write such things. Men, do take your women out of WhatsApp." Last week he took to his Instagram account to criticise Russian media coverage of the marriage as "this fuss ordered by some liberals". "The girl's parents gave their blessing to this marriage," he claimed, arguing that reports to the contrary were filled with lies.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 22 2015, @05:21PM
> The reason is that nearly every woman wants to marry. This is caused by her need to have a child, and that requires significant financial and other support.
> I, personally, never met a man who'd be dreaming of marriage.
Another unintentionally revealing post by a misogynist.
Most men want to have a family. Maybe not those red pillers, but normal men do. Even in backwards cultures where the stereotype is that men aren't involved with their kids the stereotype is also that they do care deeply about having an heir to continue the family name.
(Score: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 22 2015, @07:37PM
You don't get it. "Those red pillers" as you say, are often men that were married and were treated so badly that their actions are purely reactionary. Nobody blames a Jewish man for not wanting to live in Germany even though there are plenty of good people in Germany. The emotional scars are too deep for reconciliation. In western personal relationships right now women have all the power and men have none. Is it so abnormally wrong to opt out of servitude when the benefits do not exceed the costs?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 22 2015, @10:05PM
Hhhm, comparing a bad marriage to the holocaust.
You are definitely on to something there. Or at least on something.
Like a red pill perhaps?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 23 2015, @01:25AM
Instead of ad hominem you could contribute to the conversation. Think and help, or be catty and make things worse. Choose.
My point is that a negative experience is likely to be avoided in the future. As anyone with a college education is accustomed to, extreme examples that still fit the mold make for better analogies.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 23 2015, @02:14AM
> Instead of ad hominem you could contribute to the conversation.
Pro-tip - ad hominem is "you are wrong because you are an idiot."
I am saying "you are an idiot because you are wrong ... so ridiculously out of proportion wrong"
> As anyone with a college education is accustomed to, extreme examples that still fit the mold make for better analogies.
Yes, because comparing marriage to the holocaust is totally the same mold.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 22 2015, @07:53PM
>Most men want to have a family. Maybe not those red pillers, but normal men do. Even in backwards cultures where the
Nope. Men want a cute young girl or a pretty woman.
That's as far as it goes. Nature dose the rest.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 23 2015, @02:16AM
> Nope. Men want a cute young girl or a pretty woman.
> That's as far as it goes. Nature dose the rest.
Speak for your own, developmentally stunted, self.