[lbo-talk] Bounty offered in Pakistan activist shooting

[Wojtek S]

Andie: "Women were too insignificant. A peasant beating his wife might
have derived an honor- surrogate from her humiliation, but lords
obtained honor by defeating other lords in battle. Taking and raping
their women was part of that, but it was like taking any other
chattel,"

[WS:]  That is pretty much what Graeber argued - that women were the
mere currency in the honor accounting - Lord A would humiliate Lord B
by turning B's women into chattel.

For a peasant it was a different story - as you say.  But people who
beat, humiliate and kill women today to defend "tradition" are mostly
of peasant rather than aristocratic stock.

But again, the main point here is not who the victim is, but that male
honor is contingent on the ability to humiliate others (whoever they
are).  No humiliation, no honor.

-- 
Wojtek

"An anarchist is a neoliberal without money."