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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: 4, Informative) by Grishnakh on Friday May 22 2015, @06:03PM
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. However not every man wants to marry.
This is a bunch of sexist, misogynist crap. There's tons of women who don't want to marry, or are just so un-marryable that they can't find a husband throughout their fertile years. Just go on OKCupid in a major city (preferable a liberal one) and look at all the women around 40 years old who have never been married in their lives, and are just now saying they want to have kids. Of course, there's lots of men like this too, but it's worse for women since they have a built-in time limit for fertility, unlike men, and it's pretty short. There's also plenty of women who don't want to have kids at all and never did (again, you can find plenty in the big cities on OKC); these women just aren't very maternal. And on top of that, there's tons of women who DO have kids (mainly because society and relatives push them to), and then they're lousy mothers because again they're not very maternal or nurturing. The really horrible ones end up in the news for sticking their kids in a car and pushing it into a pond, but there's countless more who are just lousy parents without murdering their kids.
Well, not every woman either - but even fat, lazy and mean women want a husband; they are in the market.
No, actually, they don't. First off, there's a bunch of women who are lesbians, so they don't want a man at all. Then there's a bunch of women who would simply rather be alone. Some of those hook up with men out of financial necessity, but not all do. They used to have a word for these women 100+ years ago: "spinsters". These women don't need a man either, either because they're independently wealthy (heiresses for instance) or are able to earn a sufficient living on their own. These days, that's pretty easy if a women has an education; marriages out of financial necessity (on the woman's side) are becoming less and less common as women rise in the workforce. These days, there's tons of youngish women working to support their loser boyfriends who just sit on the couch and play Xbox all day or hang out at a tattoo shop.
At the same time nearly every girl wants to marry their "prince on a white horse."
Sexist stereotypical bullshit.
The point of all this is, just like there's all kinds of different men, there's all kinds of different women. Yes, a lot of women in our American society these days are spoiled brats who dream of being a Disney princess and having Prince Charming, but that does not mean that all, or even the vast majority, are like this. And the idea that all women want a kid is patently ridiculous. Lots of women have no desire to have kids, just like lots of men have no such desire.