The 'minorities' aspect, while difficult to talk about, has a lot to do with the traditional status of women in some parts of the world, and the transposition of such ideas to societies such as our own where we got over regarding women as chattels, subservient to the real actors in the world, men, some time ago. So on the one hand you've got women who are no more than skin and bone signifiers of the importance of men, family, clan et al, and every aspect of whose existence is subject to the control of men, family etc. These attitudes are centuries old, from a very different time and place, and have absolutely no shred of appropriateness (is that a word?) to a decent, tolerant, liberal, enlightened society in 2014. A woman thus oppressed does what she's told - because she's not really a person - or, appallingly, she's likely to be murdered by her family. Even here, even now.
On the other hand there's the increasing vulgarity of British society, and the growth in recent years, amongst younger people, of the kind of objectification of women as a sexual commodity that those of us old enough to have been there thought we'd sent packing decades ago. So a repressed man from a repressive culture, where women have no meaningful autonomy and may be murdered if they transgress social norms, finds himself living in a place where nobody seems to care very much what anybody gets up to, however vulgar, demeaning or exploitative. Result, he takes what he can get. That's what men do, right?
Wrong, wrong, wrong. But who is telling them that? Only, I imagine, the beleaguered copper and social worker in some grubby interview room after they get caught. In prison, they'll be mixing probably with others of their kind. Not really going to counter deeply-rooted values is it, any of that?
As for the child abuse thing, I don't want to know what such people are thinking. Some may be pathologically not normal. But I suspect that for many of them it's al lot to do with having power over others and doing whatever they damn well please.
Hark at this half-baked nonsense first thing on a Saturday. But theres a lot to be angry about in this.
