Woman Between Islam and Western Society
4. The Problems Facing Modern Civilization
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feel powerful as a male. I don’t know why, but it is
true,” says Chuck Wilder, a one-time batterer and
now a counsellor for men at HAWC (Help Abused
Women and their Children) in Massachussets.
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women, thanks to their artificially acquired outlook,
have refused to go on accepting their control. The
consequences of this clash have been universal and
are certainly worse for women than for men.
Had men and women been biological equals,
sometimes the former and sometimes the latter
would have gained the upper hand.
As it is, modern women have become so oppressed
as a result of masculine reaction to their sense of
total equality, that they cannot even run away to
save themselves. According to the
Reader’s Digest
report, one woman said, “If you try to leave, your
husband may threaten, ‘I’ll find you and kill you.’
Many of the worst injuries — and deaths — happen
as women try to get away.” The battered woman
often feels trapped. “Imagine you are such a
woman,” suggests’ Richard Gells, a sociologist and
author of
Intimate Violence in Families.
“Right now,
leave your job. Leave your wallet, everything on the
