Abuse of Armenian Women in and out of Armenia

Without a doubt, the woman is the physically weaker sex, though makes up for it in her ability to survive longer than a man and through so much torture. Unfortunately, this becomes a basis for abusing women around the world. Fortunately, many countries do have laws forbidding any form of assault on a woman and providing protection in every manner possible, from emergency buttons on university campuses to bus route systems that allow a woman travelling alone to request a stop anywhere between the regular ones.

However, in places such as Armenia, women’s rights ad protections are a newly developing phenomenon it seems, entirely backwards in retrospect. Where we had women in parliament and always revered woman for her perfection in motherhood in the Christian faith, our people seem to have regressed into creatures akin to and worse than those in the wild, treating their wives like slaves, to be tortured and ordered about. It is a despicable scene when a woman, beaten and battered, is serving her husband, and for a slight mistake receives another blow or 2 or 10, just because the sorry and dreadfully lazy husband finds pleasure in her pain. What’s more, there are many cases of mothers-in-law beating the newlywed brides worse than the groom! That in itself is an outrageous event, as women should understand each other’s plights and pains. What right does anyone have to beat another? Furthermore, what right does a husband have to beat an innocent wife, to cut her, to whip her, to burn her and cause her all manners of misery, when she has done nothing but submit to his will and his sadistic whims?

It’s high time the women of Armenia stood up for their rights, for their freedoms and for their lives. They should not have to suffer at the hands of unworthy and ignorant men, who embody the very character of the lowest of creatures. A woman is to be loved, to be revered and to be treated with respect and dignity. No man is above a woman, for woman was needed to give birth to man.