There are three sickening things about the news report on the Lebanese man who had his children stolen from him in a snatch and grab raid.1] The gloating of the Canadian woman who did it [see photo];
2] The way the press beat it up, giving unreserved 100% supported for the abduction of the children, whilst at the same time running a parallel post on 'children need their dad'. The slanted language was appalling. They wrote: "He then hatched a plan to use Lebanese law to assert his rights…" but in her case, it was: "Melissa's ordeal began on July 15…"
3] The complete lack of concern for the needs and wishes of the children themselves, as is usually the case in divorce, euphemized as 'for the good of the children'.
Sorry but this incensed me. Now wait for the counter-attack.
I agree, appalling partisanship.
ReplyDeleteBut would it have been different if she was Lebanese and he was Canadian?
Is positive chauvinism in favour of women masking an elemt of racism?
ARe women always in the right, especially when they're whiter than the men?