"Can't get pregnant and be abused to death": At what age do you still use women as fertility tools?
Talk about Fengsheng
Women are not fertility tools, nor can they abuse them at will.
"Because of the inability to get pregnant, the post-95 woman was beaten to death by her husband, father-in-law, and mother-in-law"... This was a piece of news that was very hot yesterday.
Born in 1997 in Fangzhuang Village, Dezhou, Fang Mouyang, a girl from Fangzhuang Village, Dezhou, has been hungry, beaten with wooden sticks by her husband, parents-in-law, and punished outside the house in winter due to mental defects and infertility since July 2018. He was tortured in a manner that was eventually beaten several times on January 31, 2019, resulting in his death.
According to his cousin, his sister Fang Mouyang was more than 160 kilograms when she married, and only 60 kilograms when she was beaten to death.
There is no doubt that this is a sad story.
Although it is only an extreme case, many public reflection values can be extracted from this tragedy.
This incident reminds me of the story of "The little reunion daughter-in-law was abused to death by her mother-in-law" in Xiao Hong's "Hulan River Biography".
Reunion is not a person’s name, and a reunion daughter-in-law means a child bride.
This little girl got married at the age of twelve. At the beginning, her hair was long and black, with big braids.
Her face was black and she was smiling.
A few days later, the family began to abuse her, and the beating was so severe that the screams could be heard no matter how far away.
In this way, the reunion daughter-in-law became ill, and their family asked her a witch doctor to dance the great god. If she did not dance well, the reunion daughter-in-law died.
After she died, her mother-in-law cried and complained to others, feeling that she had lost her life: her wealth was empty.
Reading this story, I sighed: Fortunately, the pre-modern society's notion that "women are treated as goods, and defective products may be destroyed" has been thrown into the trash can of civilized cognition.
To this day, although incidents such as the "post-95 woman who was beaten to death by her husband, father-in-law, and mother-in-law" in Texas occasionally occur, it is undeniable that this is indeed an extreme case.
But even so, we still need to analyze extreme cases-what we want is not just that such extreme cases change from more to less, from common to rare, but also to strive to "zero out."
Analyzing the root cause of the tragedy, this family just regarded the dead as a fertility machine, but after marrying, they discovered that the woman was barren because of a miscarriage.
They spent all their savings, owed foreign debts, were mentally abnormal, and were unable to have children. These factors overlapped, and they were all angry at this girl who was far from her family and had no relatives.
They used violent abuse to push the girl into an impossible place.
This is more like a tragedy created by pre-modern thinking in modern society.
In the eyes of those who hold this kind of pre-modern thinking, women are probably inherited from the lineage, and not having a baby is a sin; women are the private property of in-laws’ households, so you can dispose of them whatever you want...
And this concept has long been abandoned nowadays: anyone who has received a little education knows that women have their own personalities, they are not vassals of anyone, they are not fertility tools, and cannot be abused by domestic violence.
As far as the case is concerned, the perpetrator also got a legal ruling.
It’s just that the initial legal ruling is too far from people’s expectations: several defendants were sentenced to two to three years in terms of imprisonment and suspended sentences. At the moment when there is zero tolerance for domestic violence and abuse, this ruling will inevitably lead to Rebound.
Fortunately, the Dezhou Intermediate People's Court held that the judgment of the first instance violated the legal procedures, and revoked the verdict of the first instance. It ruled that the case should be sent back to Yucheng Court for a new trial. The case will be retrial in Yucheng Court on the morning of November 19.
The local Women's Federation also expressed its involvement in this matter.
The direction of the incident is developing towards justice.
Whether the retrial can reiterate the common sense of "no domestic violence and abuse" with a reasonable judgment and weigh the weight of life, we are all concerned.
The most important thing is that common sense must be popularized: if civilization and education cannot allow a very small number of people to understand the weight of "right" and "dignity," then the law should be used to make them understand: Women are not fertility tools, nor can they abuse them at will.
□ Yu Xin (writer)