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Patriarchal society limiting options of women voters
4-5-2018
In its issue of today, Al Akhbar newspaper published an article by Dr. Omar Nashabeh on the security of the elections and the exploitation of authority in Lebanon, including a paragraph on abuse of women to this effect. According to Nashabeh, the patriarchal ruling establishment in the country pushes the male breadwinner of the household to decide the electoral choices for all family members, noting that in any event, the husband sees no need to sway his wife to make the decision, accepting as true, her “ignorance in politics”. Therefore, Nashabeh analyzed, the most common justification for the wife is to fully confide in her husband’s “wise” electoral preference, ironically noting that, some wives who are holders of university degrees in political science, end up with the same fate. Patriarchal repression, Nashabeh writes, is exacerbated in a society encumbered with confessionalism and sectarianism, whereby machos rely largely on their mothers, wives, sisters and daughters to fuel emotions with the aim curb logical reasoning. Added to this, is the emotionalization involved to purportedly protect and safeguard fellows from the same sect, as if elections determine their existence or non-existence. A wife who overtly opposes the preference of her husband, father or brother is dubbed either “a rebel” or “a reckless revolutionary”, and sometimes stigmatized as “a cheater”. As is rumored, Nashabeh went on to say, the wife’s coup against her husband’s electoral choice, is not brought about by reasoning or persuaded by a conviction in an alternative political program, but rather stemmed from clashing emotional, personal or sentimental factors. Concluding, Nashabeh said a masculine conviction is established which believes that treatment of such rebellious instances cannot be outside the context of repression and coercion. Besides the key flaw in personal status which requires the Lebanese woman after marriage to relocate to her husband’s registry, again binds her to choices unrelated to her original environment. For the full article, kindly refer to the link below: https://bit.ly/2HMecLH . (Al Akhbar, May 4, 2018)
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