Bride snatching

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Article in BBC here

How can anyone possibly defend this 'tradition'?

"We will put all men in Kyrgyzstan in prison if we increase the punishment for bride kidnapping," said MP Kojobek Ryspaev, during a discussion of the bill at a parliamentary session earlier this year.

Yeah, and?

Oh my gosh, how sickening. Women treated like commodities yet again

"This is a tradition that existed and will exist no matter what law you adopt," Bishkek resident Bobek, 48, said, voicing an opinion that appeared to be shared by many. Some frightened men out there. Legislation will change attitudes - it will take time and it will have to be enforced well but it can happen.

And that quote your highlighted grimbletart seems to have been said without irony - presumably by a man.

That's why I highlighted it Abigail - because it is so unbelievably misogynistic. So if it means locking all the men up, so what? They an throw away the keys while they are at it. Bugger culture I say.