War is Not Over , When It’s Over – Week 1

I started reading this book last May 15, before a beach trip. It’s such a page-turner, but as a woman, I couldn’t help but take some time to close the book, put it down and breathe. If you haven’t read it yet, the book is about the violence that women endure even when war has ended. Women from several parts of the world become punching bags and sex slaves for men who has a distorted reality of what the world is supposed to be. I’m writing this quick entry after reading from the second chapter that some men in Liberia believes that men are in charge of women, therefore, they can do whatever they want to them. In my deepest of hearts, as an atheist woman, I do not know which god they are talking about, but the god I grew up learning about was preaching about love and respect. Granted I do not believe in this god, but I’m pretty sure the bible isn’t telling men to force your wife to do something she doesn’t want to. I will be writing more often as I read through the book. I can’t say…