Like A Compass That Points North

I was taken off guard by question 16 of the A Thousand Splendid Suns Socratic seminar questions because it asks us to discuss the statement "accusing fingers always find a woman." In the novel  you see a lot of accusations being directed towards the women, but when you think about it, a lot of accusations go towards women in America and everyday life as well. In Afghanistan it is probably a lot more typical for accusing fingers to point towards women because men can get away with whatever they want when its against a female. Women are supposed to obey their husband or even any other mans command and with the slightest fault from them they can be accused for disobedience or betrayal, even if its an accident. In America men still seem to blame women when something goes wrong, whether its in finances in a marriage or even when talking about rape. Many rape cases end without a conviction of the man because there is no physical proof that the woman was raped. A woman's word has no worth against a man's if she can be proven to be promiscuous. Some men will say, "Well, she was dressed and acting like she wanted it" and that can sometimes be enough reason to let him go free and make it seem like it was the womans fault. That confuses me so much because who is to judge whether a woman's outfit is promiscuous when it could just be what she feels pretty in, it doesn't mean she is looking for sex. And any sex without consent is rape, and everybody knows that, so there is no excuse. Also, many men think they are higher in status then women which leads them to believe that they also can control them. Many times men get paid more in their jobs simply because they are males. Also many CEO's are men when very few are women because few women are put into that position because they are thought of as weak and unable to lead a company into prosperity. I believe that if more women were put into higher positions and given more equality that whenever anything went wrong, they would be pointed at and blamed. But if people continued to allow them to be in those positions, then accusations would start to decrease and would then begin to be directed at men as well. Even today, Obama is focusing on fighting for women's equality in the USA and men are back lashing saying that it is a waste of money going straight to support abortion clinics. That just shows how little respect men have for women and their hard set mind of believing we are not equal.