is how it's patriarchies define female honour
in terms of the needs of the patriarchies,
and seemingly solely for their own gain,
though one other effect is to further internalise
the competition between men for ownership.
The issue must be more than tribal,
though that would cover quite a lot masculine aggression
over the virtue (and suspected lack of same) in women.
If women as a matriarchy defined their honour
by and for themselves first, and for men second
would they be more forgiving than men are in defending it?
More consistent? And what gentler and more merciful
punishments might they judicially commit on male offenders
who besmirch women's self defined and autonomous honour?
The jury on those questions can only meet in secret at present
but in the meanwhile I will admire how the person
who photographed this cutting beheaded the word 'revenge'....
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