{"id":4550,"date":"2007-07-05T18:52:36","date_gmt":"2007-07-05T23:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=4550"},"modified":"2007-07-08T18:21:37","modified_gmt":"2007-07-08T23:21:37","slug":"come_back_here_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/05\/come_back_here_1\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Come back here, man. Gimme my daughter.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Safe.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/Safe.jpg\" width=\"158\" height=\"234\" hspace=10 vspace=5 align=right \/><\/p>\n\n<p>I&#8217;m swamped at work, but I&#8217;m also outraged, because of Fuerza Dulce&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/south_asia\/6275770.stm\">latest submission<\/a> to our news tab&#8211; I can&#8217;t let this go.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/004548.html\">CNN<\/a> may be a bunch of assholes with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/004548.html#comment147607\">sensationalism on their minds<\/a>, but their story and this one are essentially about the same thing; <strong>we do not value the lives of women<\/strong>.  Via the BBC:<\/p>\n\n<blockquote><strong>A two-day-old baby girl in India has survived after being buried alive<\/strong> in a field by her maternal grandfather in the south of the country. <strong>The baby, who had apparently never been fed, was discovered by a farmer<\/strong> near a village some 150km south of Hyderabad.<\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote><strong>He said he only spotted her because her tiny hand was sticking out of the soil<\/strong>.<\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote>Police say they have arrested the baby&#8217;s grandfather, 52-year-old Abdul Rahman, after he confessed to trying to kill the newborn by burying her alive.<\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote>&#8220;I am yet to marry off four daughters and cannot take responsibility for a fifth one, even when she is only a granddaughter,&#8221; Mr Rahman was quoted as telling police.<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>The article went on to state that he may have taken his grandchild without his dauther&#8217;s consent.  <strong>His unnamed grandchild.  Whom he buried.  Alive.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p>I am so livid, I can barely type.  Because of this immutable fact, I will warn you that I will shut this thread down if:<\/p>\n\n<ul>\n<li>If &#8220;Maximum City&#8221; gets mentioned.  I beg you, this is not the place.<\/li>\n<li>I get asked, &#8220;<em>why didn&#8217;t you post about immigration\/terrorism\/the story I sent in four times, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/004548.html#comment147599\">instead of<\/a> this predictable infanticide story<\/em>?&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>If one of you says this makes us look bad.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p>I really don&#8217;t care if all of the above makes me a pain in your ass or if it proves that the trolls are right and I am a bitch, after all.  This doesn&#8217;t make us look bad, this IS bad.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>A baby.  Buried alive<\/strong>.  Yes, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/004548.html#comment147622\">it&#8217;s happened for centuries<\/a>, but that doesn&#8217;t mean that reading such a story five minutes ago didn&#8217;t send a searing dagger in to my heart.  We each blog about whatever moves us; there are no assignments in the bunker, no requirements or expectations.  <em>This<\/em> moved me to despair.  There will never be a point when we bless someone by saying, &#8220;May you be the mother of a hundred <em>daughters<\/em>&#8220;, and we are lesser for it.<!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m swamped at work, but I&#8217;m also outraged, because of Fuerza Dulce&#8217;s latest submission to our news tab&#8211; I can&#8217;t let this go. CNN may be a bunch of assholes with sensationalism on their minds, but their story and this &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/05\/come_back_here_1\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4550"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}