Elisa Mariño
2 min readSep 6, 2022

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No, it is your asumption. and you have this asumption because you assume that girls and women that ask for human rights do it because of western feminism, not because they live in their culture and don't like that.

Again, just read what those girls and women have to say about their forced marriages. Sure, sometimes it is the mothers who sell their daughters. But other times, the girls who were sold grow up to fight against that.

You are passing judgement on the women of those cultures that want change instead of just submiting. But it is their culture too, while it is not yours. Her voices are valid.

Read about what the girls in Oaxaca have to say about their marriages. The rapes and the beatings they receive while being told that they owe submisiveness because they are being "protected" by the man who does the beatings and the rapes. Unsurprisingly, they reject that when they have the chance. It has nothing to do with my culture, it has everything to do with being in their skin. Western men who want to defend sexist traditions like to say that women at other cultures are happy with the sexism because it suits them. And they try to silence the indigenous feminist because if people start to hear them, many of their claims are shown as lies. I've give you a couple of links, you haven't provide any link with women defending those traditions. Or saying "when my parents sold me to an older men as a wife, I was so happy". Go ahead, add the links.

It is not me who is saying that forced children marriage is wrong. It is the gilrs and the women who have experienced that.

https://oaxaca.quadratin.com.mx/la-activista-aleida-ruiz-sosa-llamo-a-la-sociedad-a-sensibilizarse-contra-el-matrimonio-infantil/

https://www.elsoldemexico.com.mx/mexico/sociedad/venden-a-tres-de-cada-10-ninas-de-guerrero-oaxaca-y-chiapas-por-usos-y-costumbres-7669492.html

I find particularly interesting the girl who run away from the unwanted marriage but was held in prison because their parent had received money.

And the ones pushing for changes are mexican woman. But I guess that you, a western man, has passed judgement on those women and their culture. Because you have the luxury of being the dominant class in a dominant culture. Men have always had the luxury to ignore women's voices.

I'll ask again, please link the indigenous women who defend forced child marriage and that girls doesn't need to go to school to marry. Let's hear how selling a girl in exchange for alcohol preserves traditions and benefits their culture acording them.

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Elisa Mariño
Elisa Mariño

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