Why I dislike MLC

[apollinav]

Yes, I'm aware that I'm being a hipocrite.  Thank you.  I've just finished posting Ch 61 of my MLC Fic.

MLC for some girls out there is real.  There's nothing glorious about forced marriage.  A lot of MLCs romanticise them - not to knock any particular author.  MLC is fiction.  This is real life.  Big difference.  I get it.

But this still bothers me.  

And I'm not going to listen to 'cultural sensitivity issues' bullcrap - I don't care that it's a cultural practice.   According to my values, it's morally wrong.

http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSTRE5815E920090902?feedType=RSS&feedName=oddlyEnoughNews&rpc=69

Comments

[persevero.livejournal.com]

Absolutely. Forced marriage is in there with 'do not murder'. Schools in two nearby towns to here have procedures in place to inform the authorities about every female student who fails to reappear after the summer.

It also happens, more rarely, to males. A friend of mine had his university fees cut off because he didn't want to marry the girl his parents had selected (or rather that his uncle back in India had selected on their behalf). Okay, having to leave a full-time university course in favour of evening classes is hardly equivalent to coercion and rape, but it was still very unpleasant to choose to be cut off from his family forever, which it seems to be amounting to.

[apollinav.livejournal.com]

I'm not saying by any means that I'm glad to hear that it happened to a male - no. But thank you for sharing a story about a forced groom, and from a different culture than Islam. The issue is not limited only to Islam.

[persevero.livejournal.com]

Sikh.