Nice! If you don't get a greenlight for that, something's wrong

Cougary goodness:

So she's single now? hawt. I wonder if they gave her back to her parents.

penthesilea: So she's single now? hawt. I wonder if they gave her back to her parents.

clicking the link would sate your curiosity

/she's now being molested by her uncle

In California she would have got his house.

penthesilea: So she's single now?

I bet the biatch gets half his shiat too.

Is the 'sick' tag broken or something?

That girl pretty much rocks my world.

/got let out of the kitchen long enough to write this reply

It appears that ABC is rapidly becoming ad-whores and moving towards a revenue model that puts (click for page 2) every (click for page 3) word (page 4) on a (page 5) separate (page 6) page.

Fluff Girl: Cougary goodness:

That's bad. I laughed anyway.

Yemen sounds like a really unpleasant place.

For the record, Dora the Explorer is hilarious when stoned off your ass.

/end threadjack

Muhummad would have been proud, well right up to the part where she was allowed to get a divorce.

Worthless polygamous pedophile.

Ikam: Is the 'sick' tag broken or something?

this.

Is this one of those times where we need to respect Yemen's culture?

Meanwhile, the age of consent in the U.S. is gradually working it's way up to 25. How about a happy medium?

Anybody else read the second page?

The girl's lawyer is trying to get the legal minimum marriage age moved all the way from 15 to 16. I thought she might actually get some good done until I saw that she thinks that laws matter in Yemen.

Seriously, they do some farked up shiat over there.

/Religion of Peace
//that last line would make a nice bumper sticker

StillH2O: Meanwhile, the age of consent in the U.S. is gradually working it's it is way up to 25. How about a happy medium?

/feral peeve

Oh god thats horrible. I mean your tryign to enjoy your marrage and all the wife wanted to do is play with her coloring books.

No seriously though, this article disgusted me. I think the sick tag would have been more approprate

Nuke the region from the orbit. There is nothing wholesome about marrying anyone below the age of ten.

8 years old??? What is this world coming to? Used to be you could marry a 10 year old and expect your bride to be a virgin.

meh, the earlier she learned, the better. marriage is for saps.

/fishing for marriage pros/cons to make this thread less pervy

Cue Pedobear wearing a shimagh.

lilbordr
Is this one of those times where we need to respect Yemen's culture?

Nope. Not in the slightest.

Traditional ethnic holiday celebrating some antiquated event nobody remembers anymore = good (provided it's not an excuse for a lazy afternoon of ethnic cleansing because everyone *does* remember the antiquated event).

Misogyny and child abuse = bad

Listen, she clearly didn't love Jesus enough in the beginning of this ordeal, but you can rest assured and rejoyce in the Lawd that this happened for a reason, and that clearly she has found Jesus and was able to pray just hard enough to be delivered.

Bondith:

One could argue that many aspects of "celebrating some antiquated event nobody remembers anymore" are in fact, child abuse.

WTF? The cultures where menstruation = marriage are scary enough, this is just plain farked the fark up.

nutkick_42: The girl's lawyer is trying to get the legal minimum marriage age moved all the way from 15 to 16. I thought she might actually get some good done until I saw that she thinks that laws matter in Yemen.

I think (but I could be wrong) that she was trying to make 16 a legal minimum for all marriages. 15 is the legal minimum without parents' consent, but this 8 year old's marriage was legal under current law.

The Flexecutioner: meh, the earlier she learned, the better. marriage is for saps.

/fishing for marriage pros/cons to make this thread less pervy

Well, I for one believe that if marriage were a twelve year old boy....

/Compound could not be reached for comment...

Wow. what gets me is the parents sold their kid for only $250. i thought those uuurbs were supposed to be good at negotiating.

ultraholland: I bet the biatch gets half his shiat too.

She was butt-naked on a zebra last month?

Sadly, since she has now dishonored her family I expect that we'll be reading about her as the victim of an honor killing in the next few weeks or months.

This is a bigger problem than those polyhamists out in Texas. The UN needs to round up all those girls who are child brides and send to foster homes in Europe and North American except for Mexico.

Boddhisatva: Sadly, since she has now dishonored her family I expect that we'll be reading about her as the victim of an honor killing in the next few weeks or months.


I hope not

was she married to Jesus Quintana?

/8-year olds, dude!

YixilTesiphon: WTF? The cultures where menstruation = marriage are scary enough, this is just plain farked the fark up.

Augh. I'd've gotten shipped off at 10.

/damn right i have a uterus
//damn right that's a double contraction

Bith Set Me Up: ultraholland: I bet the biatch gets half his shiat too.

She was butt-naked on a zebra last month?

"what have you done for me lately?!?"

Surely in order to get divorced implies, initially at least, informed consent? For an eight year old, that's just not going to happen.


Shouldn't this alleged marriage be annulled?

Pextor: Bith Set Me Up: ultraholland: I bet the biatch gets half his shiat too.

She was butt-naked on a zebra last month?

"what have you done for me lately?!?"

You have to have a J-O-B if you want to be with me.

Mehh she's hideous. If I was married to that I'd want a divorce too. I guess for the ex husband it was either her or a camel.

Zyng: For the record, Dora the Explorer is hilarious when stoned off your ass.

/end threadjack

Everything is hilarious when stoned off your ass.

This is ridiculous.

Eight is way too old to still be watching Dora the Explorer.

"My father beat me and told me that I must marry this man, and if I did not, I would be raped..."

usually a simple "time out" would be appropriate, but...meh...

ultraholland: I bet the biatch gets half his shiat too.

Don't be so sure about that. As part of her divorce, she still had to pay him a dowry. Odds all, all she'll get is shiat for divorcing him and breaking with the culture.

FTFA: "But there are some people who are very traditional, very cross. They do not believe in rights for women."

It seems that America does have something in common with the Middle East after all. This can be our common ground to start negotiations.

Really, though, as far as I know, no country on the planet has criminalized indoctrination and brainwashing of children, which is a far more damaging and long term form of abuse. Unless you disapprove of people who teach their children their religion as truth (instead of as religion), you don't have much of a right to protest this. Either you approve of actions which hurt children and impair their development, or you don't; anything in between is just "that's what I think is ok."

Either way, the problem isn't the marriage, it's the physical and mental abuse. And by that, I don't mean any specific thing (hitting, sexual contact), but the general violence towards her. Again, unless you disapprove of teaching children religion, you really have no right to say that a marriage is anymore scarring than, say, a baptism or attending church and so on.

And moving up the marriage age (having a marriage laws at all; frankly. There is no reason there need to be ANY laws concerning marriage anymore than we need laws concerning how we celebrate holidays) is just asinine. Those laws just hurt people who have legitimate reasons; whether you think people should or shouldn't marry that young is no more your choice to make than it is their choice how much beer you should be allowed to drink. It's government babysitting, and can be far better served by having stricter laws (and enforcement!) against the types of abuse that happen within them, instead of outright bannination.