witchsistah:

winged:

nova-bright:

zikrayat:

whenbutterflyes:

When I was six-years-old, I used to play ‘tag’ in the playground and pretend I was flying on the swings. These girls don’t get to play on the swings, in fact, they don’t get to play at all. What they do is get married to 60-year-old men. Soon they won’t be playing mommy… They’ll be mommies.

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^ This photo is bullshit!

As is the custom in Gaza, children who attend the celebration dress in white and black to match the bride and groom outfits. This is a custom one finds throughout the world, not only in the many Asian cultures, but even in the United States. Ring bearers and flower girls are a common fixture at Christian weddings. 

This is just anti-Palestinian and Islamophobic. Try and do a little background research. Also, it’s not hard to tell this photo is not about Saudi Arabia (the article is), and instead is located in Palestine.

FURTHERMORE this article is also pretty sketchy because it paints a picture of one VERY SMALL TRIBAL TOWN. Google the town, and you’ll only get results for this article, proving how small it is. Saudi Arabia has a long way to go but let’s have a little objectivity in this article okay?

All one has to do is google “Palestine child bride photo” and you can figure out this is false.

http://www.snopes.com/photos/politics/masswedding.asp

Reblogging that commentary.

Wow, what bullshit! Yeah, that’s incredibly racist and unresearched. And like the commenter notes, child dresses are made to echo Christian/American wedding dresses in this country all the time; in fact when I was planning my wedding I noticed that many flower girl dresses are EXACT DUPLICATES of bridal patterns, this happens here as well, it’s just a trend. No one is marrying off children in this photo.

That is not to say that child marriage does not exist or does not have the potential to be harmful, but that before you go around spreading Islamophobic stereotypes all over Tumblr and in newspapers, check your sources. This photo isn’t even from the same country you’re speaking about, for crying out loud.

Um, the outfit that many little Catholic girls wear to their first communion, white dress, white tights/socks, white shoes AND a tiara with a VEIL l(which is what I and the other little 8 and 9 year old girls wore to our first communion) ook more like mini brides than those girls do.