WOMEN...OUR BLOOD FLOWS THROUGH EVERY MAN

We are your mothers , your sister's your babies, your wives, your friends and our blood does flow through every man !!! There has been so much attention given to the story of Rhainna and domestic abuse lately and a lot of anger directed to her partner, and now towards her for her decision to stay with him. I totally agree with all the voices out there shouting out "don't teach our daughter's this is okay", while at the same time thinking she is still a person who deserves a bit of privacy while she contemplates her future. But I am so very sick of a society that allows women to be disrespected, smashed back down every time they try and rise up, and the humiliating way some of us are treated by men. Why do we allow ourselves to be treated this way? In every society around the world in many different ways, it is obvious to me that even though the customs may be different, the thoughts of many men are the same, to keep women in thier place whatever it takes. I am not a manhater, I am not a lesbian (thats usually a man's first line of defence if you dare attack them) but I do think that the treatment of women is getting worse and men need to acknowledge this instead of being defensive. Maybe then we can make some progress. Men, we need your help. We need you to know that being your equal is not a threat, that killing and maiming us will not make us love you more, that every time you heap physical or verbal abuse on us, you are also heaping it on your babies, and we need your respect. I have seen my own mother beaten down with vicious words so nasty any intelligence or wisdom she possessed was kept to herself. I have stood by and watched silently as my friends have been humiliated in front of people by the men who are supposed to love them, because they dared offer an opinion that might make more sense than the one offered by thier partner. Not long ago while trying to have an intelligent conversation with the partner of someone close about men that kill thier children I was angrily told "women drive men to it". To me this was the most childish, unintelligent reasoning I had ever heard, I was and still am apalled. To me this is nothing but an act of spit and hate, another tantrum if you will, because men can't have the woman they want they will hurt her by taking the things they value the most, thier children.Abuse in Australia is now out of control and apparently in America the same thing is happening. 1 out of 4 women are being abused in some way . 1 OUT OF 4.......that's outrageous. What or who gives men the right to treat us this way ?.Themselves, that's who !! Are they so threatened by women that control and abuse is the only way can live with a female. Doesn't that prove that women have brilliant potential....or why else would men be so threatened by us? It is disgusting that a mother is left cowering in a corner in front of her children, that young girls have thier clitoris cut out because men don't want them to enjoy sex, that girls are not allowed to get an education in some parts of the world, that females are raped and that we are held in such low esteem by males. And then we have the world's press clamouring over bimbos like Paris Hilton who offer's our girls nothing but cheapness and stupidity. Girl's this is NOT what being a woman is about !!!! As for men......being a man shold be about the size of your heart not your penis, the compassion you have for humanity, and the maturity to accept what you cannot change.....not to smash down everything you are supposed to love because that's how you keep control.