Feminists call for book in Spain to be banned that tells wives to be submissive to their husband

[davidn3600]

You wouldn’t believe what Spanish women are reading – and ripping up in protest – these days.

A new book that urges wives to be submissive to their husbands has become an unexpected bestseller in Spain, even as women’s group have staged protests and politicians, on both sides of the political spectrum, have denounced it.

This has not stopped it from selling like hotcakes on Spain’s Amazon website, since there is nothing like a good controversy to drive book sales, as ridiculous and misogynistic as the content sounds.

In one memorable section, the book, called Cásate y sé sumisa, which translates to Get Married and Be Submissive, observes that “we (women) like humiliation because it is for the greater good.”

Or this special nugget: “When your husbands tell you something, you should listen as if it were God speaking.”

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/the-hot-button/the-message-to-women-in-this-bestselling-book-be-submissive/article15983615/?cmpid=rss1

One reviewer on Amazon commented: 'What an insult, a real setback for the struggle of women and men in favour of equality.'

What has riled many even more is that the book is written by a woman - Italian author Costanza Miriano, 43.

A devout Catholic married with four children, her book is based on the teachings of St Paul and has been published by the Archbishop of Granada's printing press Editorial Nuevo Inicio.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2524628/Guide-wives-based-Old-Testament-teachings-St-Paul-bestseller-Spain.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490

[seabeyond]

1. “we (women) like humiliation" can someone tell me where in the bible it states women like

humiliation?

[davidn3600]

2. Im no expert on the Bible

But it probably works like Nostradamus's writings....you can make it say whatever you want it to say.

[el_bryanto]

3. I don't know if it's coming from the actual Bible or just a generalized sense of what it says?

I don't speak Spanish but it's possible that Humiliate doesn't sound quite as awful in Spanish/Italian as it does in English?

Pretty awful either way though, in all honesty.

Bryant

[lunamagica]

4. It sounds just as awful and it means exactly the same thing...

in Spanish. I don't speak Italian, but I'd be really surprised if it has a more benign meaning in Italian -or any language, for that matter-

[seabeyond]

8. i do not know all the bible, and i am not an expert, but pretty damn sure it never said

women like to be humiliated.

i think at my age, and all the discussions i have had about womens issues and religion and the bible, i would have heard that once. never heard it. now... the bible says a lot of shit about women, in the old testament. but, no. never, women like to be humiliated.

i can see humble. but, not quite the same.

[FrodosPet]

5. The Apostle Paul was the worst thing that ever happened to Jesus' teachings

Paul took a message of love and charity, and turned it into a tool of oppression and superstition.

[niyad]

6. there was a version here a few years ago called "the surrendered wife"-- same crap.

that, of course, was decades after "fascinating womanhood" and "total woman", which spewed the same misogynistic nonsense--all three of these written by women.

[seabeyond]

7. really, a man wrote all of them and the women merely submitted and put their names on,

meh... makes just as much sense.

[niyad]

11. would not be at all surprised. but, don't forget, "surrendered wife" came out right after "the

rules", that lovely little instruction manual in how to get a man to marry you. in a discussion on those two books one day, I asked what happens when the mask finally comes off. of course, my first question was, why on earth would you want to marry a man who would be dumb enough to fall for those tricks. no answer to either one.

[Donald Ian Rankin]

9. I can't find any calls to ban at the links.

Certainly, such a call would be silly - things like this are best ignored, on the grounds that anyone who takes them seriously is probably beyond saving anyhow.

[LittleBlue]

10. Pretty much any book promising "how to get a man" or "lose weight"

will sell like crazy among women. It's like men and those workout machines that they buy but never use, they buy for the hope because they want to believe.

Seems like these two topics are the foundations of all women's magazines I see at the store. Getting a man, keeping him, and losing weight. Wash, rinse, repeat, profit.

[geek tragedy]

15. thank you for you profound insight into women in our society.

in the future, we need not consult women to see what is important to them--as you've successfully reduced the entire gender to the comic strip Cathy.

[pipi_k]

12. Well, as outrageous

as the content of that book is, what really pisses me off is people who think they have the right to tell others what they can or can't...should or should not...read.

If they're merely denouncing it, fine.

If they're trying to get it banned, then shame on them.

[sabrina 1]

13. What great free advertising for a book or movie. Get a bunch of people to act outraged over it

and call for it to be banned, and it's likely to become a best seller. Using women again to do it.

Pieces of trash that demean any human being are best ignored so it makes you wonder whether these controversies are planned as part of the promotion, or are there actually people who are so dumb they help to make these ridiculous pieces of trash successful.

[HappyMe]

14. Ugh! I just don't like banning books.

I don't care how stupid they are, banning isn't the answer. Just don't buy the damned thing.

[loli phabay]

18. this, its just a book, and like any book you are gonna get people wanting it banned

ban one and then whats next banning harry potter or any other book one cares to mention.

[cthulu2016]

16. People who call for books to be banned are assholes

As for whether the headline of this OP is accurate... I have no idea.

[davidn3600]

17. What's not accurate?

The book currently appears at number 15 on the Amazon bestseller list in Spain but has raised the hackles of modern-minded Senoras who even staged a public demonstration against the tome, where they tore up copies.

Women's groups are considering legal action to get it banned arguing that it promotes gender violence.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/spain/10511139/Book-on-submissive-wives-becomes-hit-in-Spain.html