Letters to the Editor
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Islamisogyny
Is this an anti-religious post or an anti-misogyny one? I mean, this is the result of religious absurdity taking advantage of a lack of civilization, isn't it?
I'm never quite sure what Broadsheet is trying to say with stuff like this. Islamic countries should treat their women better?
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No you've got it all wrong
Because Broadsheet Feminists(TM) are careful to defend the brown people oppressed by the white testicled people. All hail multiculturalism.
So we banish our evil sinful thoughts that someone that is different from us maybe inferior and we put on our happy smile knowing that if it's brown, it makes the world go round.
And we cheer for the women who have chosen to be liberated in their own way, and we pray we will one day seek the enlightenment that helps us understand.
For more, see the bashing of Ayaan Ali Hirsi over in Video Dog. She saw a friend murdered while making a film about her, his crime was free speech, but it turns out she is a nasty anti-feminist neo-con because she dislikes Muslims now and she takes money from the enemy. So she's a brown person that it's okay to hate, and there's a real nice get your hate on thread over in Video Dog.
Remember, down with testicles (, up with breasts)!
Hope that helps.
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Afghan women used to sing on the radio in the sixties
King Zahir Shah wanted to modernize Afghanistan gradually, at a speed that wouldn't destabilize the country and lead to civil war.
Then in 1973, the King was overthrown by Mohamed Daoud, probably with Nixon's help. Daoud wanted to modernize the country overnight, at the point of a gun if need be.
See how well that turned out.
I wonder whether the King's gradualism could have worked eventually, if the coup had never taken place.
No coup by Daoud => no Soviet invasion => radically different world today.
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marriage to a saudi
The US State Dept used to distribute a leaflet warning Western women about the horrors of marriage to Saudi men. It gave necessary advice about the restriction of women's legal rights, but included lots of ad hoc expat popular wisdom about Saudi children who "wreck havoc", Saudi husbands who seem so lovely in the States but are transformed into Oriental despots on the plane journey home, etc. The leaflet was withdrawn but it can still be read here-
http://www.meforum.org/article/520
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Iran has emnbarked on a new campaign of mutilating people
you know, that charming practice of lopping off hands and feet under sharia law
http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2008/1/ec3b38a0-00af-4743-9943-5d00e920249f.html
And of course that whole stoning thing
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7188121.stm
And of course that whole hanging children in public from a crane, without trial.
And of course that whole killing homosexuals thing too.
Cue the people who scream that America is the worst nation on earth in 5..4..3..2..1..
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Anonymous...
Islam IS misogynistic by its nature. Read the Q'uran, the Sunnah, and the Hadith. The Bible is pretty nasty towards women, but this is even worse.
Granted, the writers of Broadsheet tend to get a wee bit confused about this issue from time to time, because cheering for Islam and Muslims is supposed to be a liberal, cool, anti-colonial, anti-Bush, pro-Palestinian thing to do. But then you run flat up against the blatant and very real discrimination against women, and there you are, with weekly roundups like this one.
Muslimgirlpower, thanks for the link. Personally, I think the legal realities of life in Saudi should suffice to prevent any sane woman from ever living there. The editorializing probably is largely true, but doesn't help (every girl in love with an Arab thinking to herself, "Oh, but he would never do that to me....we're special"..etc.).
Can't leave the country with hubbi's written permission? God what a completely nasty, vile place. The asshole of the planet, it must be.
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Disgusting
More stomach-churning moral relativism from Broadsheet. How would you react if those women were treated that way in America? Would you still say that there are some perks?
/weep
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But Nulla
There are no homosexuals in Iran...
PS Is that your actual name? just out of curiosity.
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TCF: Off-topic, but you really need to listen to or read Susan Wicklund, MD.
TCF, I highly recommend you listen to an interview of Susan Wicklund on Here and Now. Or that you read her book, My Journey as an Abortion Doctor.
She is certainly pro-choice, but she delivers such a nuanced view that it would not surprise me to find her not respected by many feminists.
http://www.here-now.org/
(I think this is the direct link to the podcast: http://realserver.bu.edu:8080/ramgen/w/b/wbur/herenow/2008/01/hn_0115.rm)
Though she has been featured in the New York Times, a quick google search of her name reveals no mention of her at Pandagon, Feministing, or Feministe. The one reference to her at lawprofs blog is by David Cohen not Ann Bartow, and doesn't discuss her nuanced views, her mistakes, or anything other than her pro-abortion stance. To read Cohen's post would be to completely misunderstand what she has to say about abortion as represented by her interview on Here and Now.
Cohen quotes her as saying: Dr. Wicklund said she would put more credence in opponents of abortion rights if they did more to help women prevent unwanted pregnancies. Instead, she said, many of the protesters she encounters “are against birth control, period.”
And while I am pro-choice, I know that many pro-choice people have very mixed feelings about abortion, and that pro-choice and many anti-choice people would put more credence into feminist proponents of abortion rights if they would do more to prevent unwanted pregnancies than shout every fuck is sacred.
That reminds me of a song I'd like to play, it goes like this:
Every teen fuck is sacred.
Every teen fuck is great.
If a teen fuck is prevented,
Fems gets quite demented.
Anyway, listen to the interview or read the book, Susan Wicklund, M.D., is a feminist actually changing the world and not bloviating, and you could be the first feminist blog to bring her the attention she deserves.
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Association
Would I be one of those people "screaming that America is the worst nation on Earth" if I pointed out that the White House supports the House of Saud and opposes secular states in the region?