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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ibnanv" data-source="post: 10344282" data-attributes="member: 218596">This issue of wife-beating, like corporal  punishment for children and animals, is becoming increasingly  unacceptable and emotive in Western countries. Therefore I must firstly say that I regard any wife-beating as abusive and unacceptable. However, we do have politically correct multi-multiculturalism in the  Western culture, which claims all cultures and customs are equal, and we  have no right to judge the legalities of another culture.  Wife beating was common in Christian cultures, and even in high or  "decent" middle class society it was considered a private matter, and  this was widely accepted and ignored by the churches and law well into the 1980s.   I recall that only a century ago the colonial laws allowed "reasonable"  beatings, and beatings with a rod no thicker than the man's thumb.  It has grown to be increasingly unpopular and socially unacceptable. Of course that doesn't stop real abuse from going on, but abusers can no  longer look to religious or legal support, and women are increasingly empowered to stop it. That means: no Western abuser can honestly say he is beating a woman because his religion and culture tells him to do so. The male abusers are also increasingly stigmatized and cast out from society. Christianity increasingly shies away from its sexist verses</blockquote>

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