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Good For the Gander?
Conditions Harsh for Zibundi Women
October 13, 2002
Editor:In Zibundi, any woman can be thrown in prison for the simple crime of annoying a man. If a man says a woman raised her voice at him, she is imprisoned, and has her children taken from her. Often, she never sees the children again. She is forced into slavery, and her earnings go to the man who had her enslaved.
Mock trials are used where bogus information is presented before a judge. The judge is fully aware that the information is false, but uses that to force adherence to laws that have themselves been determined illegal.
If their labor fails to produce the prescribed results, they are punished more harshly.
There is an ongoing public campaign to vilify and denigrate these women. All news and entertainment is geared towards portraying these women as low-life scum, deserving their predicament. Nearly all of Zibundi society agrees the women are treated fairly and properly. Their pleas for mercy are ignored.
Their children are usually abused and suffer serious and lifelong consequences. They are taught to hate their mothers, and told it is her fault they suffer.
The female children who survive to adulthood are typically forced into slavery as well. The husbands have children with other women, and the slave women have their burden increased to pay for the man's other children. The man's new wife must please him continuously or face the same fate.
The men threaten the women with having their children taken from them and forced into slavery if she opposes his demands. Even the richest men force a woman to give her meager earnings to him.
Falling ill relieves her of no duties, despite her being subjected to conditions likely to cause illness. Most of these women just want to see their children, but are ignored. All of this is done with the agreement of the Zibundi government.
Where is Zibundi? Surprise! It's not called Zibundi, it's called America. And it's not women subjected to these conditions, it is men.
