{"id":222003,"date":"2022-10-17T12:00:39","date_gmt":"2022-10-17T11:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=222003"},"modified":"2022-10-15T05:18:20","modified_gmt":"2022-10-15T04:18:20","slug":"millions-of-girls-abused-in-the-name-of-fake-toxic-masculinity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2022\/10\/millions-of-girls-abused-in-the-name-of-fake-toxic-masculinity\/","title":{"rendered":"Millions of Girls Abused in the Name of Fake, Toxic Masculinity"},"content":{"rendered":"

13 Oct 2022 – <\/em>A common feature to religions \u2013 including the monotheistic ones \u2013 is that groups of males have self-proclaimed themselves as the source for interpreting the \u201cWord of God,\u201d shaping them, and spreading them among the peoples of good faith.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Girls are primarily victims of sexual exploitation (72% of detected girl victims), while boys are mainly subjected to forced labour (66% of detected boy victims)<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/div>\n

Consequently, any given \u201cgod\u201d has been historically presented as a man. And some say that God created the first woman (Eve) from the rib of a man (Adam). According to this, women are just a \u201csub-product.\u201d<\/p>\n

This way, the Taliban in Afghanistan \u2013and their influence in other Muslim neighbouring countries like Pakistan\u2013, the Boko Haram in Nigeria, the Shabab in Somalia, the Jihadists in the Middle East, just to mention some, continue to subject women to all sorts of brutality.<\/p>\n

But such acts of male dominance are not limited only to Muslim societies. Indeed, women were seen as creators with no soul by some Christian male leaders during the decades of mediaeval times.<\/p>\n

Even in modern times, girls and women are exploited, abused, raped and also killed in Christian majority States.<\/p>\n

Now, the rising right and far-right parties in all societies, including and perhaps above all in the Western ones, are steadily heading to abolishing girls\u2019 and women\u2019s basic human rights.<\/p>\n

Additionally, in all patriarchy-dominated societies, women continue to be major victims of brutality: violence, stereotypes, exclusion, and discrimination.<\/p>\n

Tragically, it is also the case for girls.<\/p>\n

In fact, every day, hundreds of thousands of girls around the world are harmed physically or psychologically<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n

Horrifying facts<\/b><\/em><\/h3>\n

See just some of the facts that have been exposed on the occasion of this year\u2019s International Day of the Girl Child<\/a> on 11 October, among other sources:<\/p>\n