Thousands of women and girls were incarcerated in Magdalene laundries and the Irish government seems unwilling to apologise and compensate the remaining surviving victims. Given the recent scandals of the scale of child abuse there, this is yet another except it concerns only women and girls--which might explain why nothing is being done to compensate them.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/jun/08/irealnd-...
Angharad.
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The forgotten victims of Irish double standards.
Where is Wade Wallace when you need him?
May Your Light Forever Shine
May Your Light Forever Shine
Better question....
...please help me understand? Who is Wade Wallace, and what in God's name does that have to do with the systematic physical abuse of women and children. I have a close friend who is actually working as a therapist with some of these victims in Ireland, and it's not good. Too many have been neglected for too long,and of course, way too many folks here know the pain that these poor souls went through. Life isn't always about stories; this is real, and your comment makes absolutely no sense at all. Maybe you can rephrase it or amend it in such a way that it does, but as written it just trivialized the trauma and sadness of hundreds of poor souls.
Dio vi benedica tutti
Con grande amore e di affetto
Andrea Lena
Love, Andrea Lena
Just sickening
I hope that if the USA comes to rely this much on "faith based social services", which certain politicians here are holding up as a preferred alternative to Big Government, that whoever is running them will be held more accountable than that monstrous institution...
~hugs, veronica
Well shit, I guess it really CAN happen here..,
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beautifully poignant Joni Mitchell song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kU1Zymqlhko
Thanks for the info, Angha.
It's funny. I just mentioned this ill-treatment of wimyn by the Irish church, yesterday in a comment on the torture of the "sissy boy" so that he wouldn't be gay (more likely trans).
> The Whole Thing
Submitted by Renee M on Tue, 2011/06/07 - 11:49pm.
sounded horrendous. Some bigoted pshrink spurring a violent, possibly psychopathic, homophobe to torture an innocent child. Sounds almost like the catholic church treating unwed mothers in Ireland. <
Now, it seems like the blog post is missing:
> http://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/blog/28370/unhappy-mans-suicid... <
Hugs and Bright Blessings,
Renee
Ready for work, 1992.
Hugs and Bright Blessings,
Renee
I agree with Andrea,
ALISON
'I have no clue as to who this Wallace character is but the report is on the abuse and subjugation of women in
Ireland.We live in a real world and matters like this should be addressed,not trivialized, for the sake of
all women who have to live under the thumb of males whose only claim to fame is that they abuse their women,
just to show their masculinity,or lack of it----I think the latter.
ALISON