A woman's place

In light of the recent pronouncement by Republican senatorial candidate Todd Akin (currently a Congressmoron from Missouri serving on the Committee on Science, Space and Technology, although he seems to believe that the sun revolves around the flat earth) on how the human female reproductive system works, it occurred to me that I need to consider places in comparison to which the United States doesn’t come out looking like the worst collection on the planet of utter nincompoops WRT women’s issues.

So I turned to Foreign Policy’s maps of the Worst Places to Be a Woman.

Didn’t make me feel any better to consider the condition of women around the world, but it did take my mind off the jaw-dropping posturing of one scumbag who represents the medieval mentality that is only slowly being chipped away—in some places more than others.