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Feminists have protested in Georgia after reports that a national institute was charging fees to carry out virginity tests ahead of traditional marriages.
The group demonstrated outside the National Forensics Bureau in Tbilisi after a TV channel reported that it was performing up to 200 virginity checks a year.
When the state encourages discrimination against women and abusive treatment its unacceptable. What else is it when a human being has to get a certificate confirming virginity. It means theres no trust in her, shes subject to psychological pressure and violence, a victim, said protester Tata Tsopurashvili, a member of the independent group of Georgian feminists.
The report on Imedi TV said most women who came for virginity checks were brought by relatives. ... Critics say the obsession with virginity before marriage is driven by the Georgian Orthodox Church and causes social problems.
http://www.euronews.com/2013/07/31/protests-in-georgia-at-state-virginity-checks-for-brides-to-be/
This is in the country of Georgia but let's hope our own Georgia, run by republicans, does not get any ideas from this. Yet another way to conduct the GOP's war on women.
AndyA
(16,993 posts)Because I wouldn't be too surprised to find something like this happening in the state of Georgia. Women are being abused by the right wing political machine all across the country right now. If the Republicans in some state thought they could pull this off, I have little doubt they wouldn't do this here.
Men, of course, can do whatever they want to whoever they want (as long as it's not another man), but women don't have the same rights. So much for all being created equal. I can't believe ANY woman would vote Republican after the outright attack on women the GOP has endorsed.
eissa
(4,238 posts)in this country that my first reaction was "WTF are the GOP doing in the state of Georgia now?!"
JPZenger
(6,819 posts)JPZenger
(6,819 posts)RC
(25,592 posts)such bad lovers that they don't want their new bride to have anything to compare to.
Me? I like the woman in my life to have had some previous experience. If it is OK for men to be experience, why not women too? Ignorance sucks.. so to speak.