I just want to point out that the 'atrocities' the GC keep talking about happening in Kusari have gotten rather...insane.
Kusari isn't exactly a land of equal rights, no. But neither is it a land where the men lay on litters and beat the women, rape them whenever they feel, (and lets take a moment to examine the word rape, yes? Rape is a powerfully charged word, containing images of struggle, violence, and horrid abuse. Now, I don't want to say daterape isn't as horrid, but if you're being dateraped every day, every week, or even every month, you stop going out. Its not the sort of attack someone recovers from fast enough that it can happen on a regular basis, or that culture would countenance it. By using it, you're either cheapening the word, or portraying an unsurvivable horror of a nation which cannot be expected to exist..or at least define rape in that manner. People desensitize) Kusari is much closer to a traditional japan, which, while it doesn't offer women the same opportunities as men, simply does not victimize them in that manner. It is, in fact, a society where any man victimizing a woman in that manner would fall victims to much harsher reprisals than such a man today. Patriarchal societies may treat their daughters like a commodity, but you have to realize that even if you're only a commodity, you've enough value that your father, brothers, cousins and sons will be quite willing to murder a man, rather horribly, who abuses you.
Women are expected to do the housework, yes. They're likely also expected to work in the fields, in any rural community which involves a level of peasantry. But the men are not lazing about, whipping the women, definitely not in the fields, and one imagines it would be the mother and the grandmother whipping or slapping the lazy daughter who refuses to do her share, while the men are out. Displays of that nature, in front of the men of the family...not at all.
GC Are extremists. They're engaged in an incredibly extreme struggle for equal rights, and they are terrorists. You don't defend people by committing piracy, nor by spreading an addictive drug. Oh, and the Maltese aren't nice people, Cardamine fields can be described as 'razorgrass,' and I highly doubt a wealthy Maltese Plantation owner would marry a GC. The Maltese consider themselves far better than mere humans.
