'Is a woman's value measured by virginity?' asks Cambodian vlogger
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'Is a woman's value measured by virginity?' asks Cambodian vlogger
A Cambodian vlogger, Catherine Harry, makes the news with her outspoken views on a woman's place.
Cambodia's YouTube provocateur: 'Is a woman's value measured by virginity?'
From menstruation to masturbation, no topic is off limits for a candid online activist who has established a big following in culturally conservative Cambodia
- A presenter is standing in front of a white sheet with splashes of pink, signifying blood. The woman, Catherine V Harry, turns to camera and, after a standard Khmer greeting, gets straight to the point.
“Is the value of women determined by virginity?” she asks. It is this directness, in a country laced with taboos and tradition, that has garnered the 22-year-old more than 1 million views on her Facebook video channel, A Dose of Cath.
“We have been conditioned to think that our value is based on our hymen and the kind of guy that will marry us,” said Catherine later, in a cafe in the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh.
Her objective is to educate fellow Cambodians about feminism, sexual and reproductive health, and other topics not openly discussed in the south-east Asian country. She believes the culture of silence surrounding these issues disempowers women.
“I want to open a discussion about those things – it’s time to start talking about topics that we are not supposed to talk about because all of them suppress women,” she says...
https://www.theguardian.com/global-deve ... se-of-cath
Cambodia's YouTube provocateur: 'Is a woman's value measured by virginity?'
From menstruation to masturbation, no topic is off limits for a candid online activist who has established a big following in culturally conservative Cambodia
- A presenter is standing in front of a white sheet with splashes of pink, signifying blood. The woman, Catherine V Harry, turns to camera and, after a standard Khmer greeting, gets straight to the point.
“Is the value of women determined by virginity?” she asks. It is this directness, in a country laced with taboos and tradition, that has garnered the 22-year-old more than 1 million views on her Facebook video channel, A Dose of Cath.
“We have been conditioned to think that our value is based on our hymen and the kind of guy that will marry us,” said Catherine later, in a cafe in the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh.
Her objective is to educate fellow Cambodians about feminism, sexual and reproductive health, and other topics not openly discussed in the south-east Asian country. She believes the culture of silence surrounding these issues disempowers women.
“I want to open a discussion about those things – it’s time to start talking about topics that we are not supposed to talk about because all of them suppress women,” she says...
https://www.theguardian.com/global-deve ... se-of-cath
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Re: 'Is a woman's value measured by virginity?' asks Cambodian vlogger
She is a welcome discordant voice in the musical spheres of Khmer outdated cultural values.
Here's her link http://adoseofcath.blogspot.co.id/?m=1
Here's her link http://adoseofcath.blogspot.co.id/?m=1
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Re: 'Is a woman's value measured by virginity?' asks Cambodian vlogger
I'm guessing she's not a virgin, doesn't have kids and lives where?
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Re: 'Is a woman's value measured by virginity?' asks Cambodian vlogger
I don't know her personally so I can't answer your question which is in part highly personal and as a whole irrelevant.
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Re: 'Is a woman's value measured by virginity?' asks Cambodian vlogger
Lol.
Are you her boyfriend or something?
I have a right to question her and get personal. Get over it.
Are you her boyfriend or something?
I have a right to question her and get personal. Get over it.
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Re: 'Is a woman's value measured by virginity?' asks Cambodian vlogger
"Lol.
Are you her boyfriend or something?
I have a right to question her and get personal. Get over it."
I've no need to recover from asinine comments. You are not only new to Cambodia you are new to good manners.
Are you her boyfriend or something?
I have a right to question her and get personal. Get over it."
I've no need to recover from asinine comments. You are not only new to Cambodia you are new to good manners.
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Re: 'Is a woman's value measured by virginity?' asks Cambodian vlogger
Assumption is the mother of all fuck ups.
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Re: 'Is a woman's value measured by virginity?' asks Cambodian vlogger
"Assumption is the mother of all fuck ups."
Fine, did mom tell you who your daddy is?
Fine, did mom tell you who your daddy is?
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Re: 'Is a woman's value measured by virginity?' asks Cambodian vlogger
Q: Is a woman's value measured by her virginity?
A: It depends whether she's being auctioned to a Saudi sheik or not.
A: It depends whether she's being auctioned to a Saudi sheik or not.
You could be next.
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Re: 'Is a woman's value measured by virginity?' asks Cambodian vlogger
The short answer in Cambodian society is of course yes.
Silence, exile, and cunning.
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