I do not need... Eurocentric feminists to dictate to me what I wear or shouldn't wear.

[LadyHawkAZ]

426. I agree that we have problems here that need solving

I don't understand American fundie culture either. This has not stopped me from fighting the attempts to pass laws that legislate their religious thinking, or from advocating that their churches be heavily taxed.

There are a lot of things I don't understand. I don't understand cultures that allow young girls to be married off to grown men. I do not understand FGM. I do not understand the idea that girls shouldn't be educated. I do not understand the philosophy behind sentencing a rape victim to be beaten for adultery. I do not understand how killing your sister or daughter can be in any way connected to the word "honor". I do not understand the idea that a woman shouldn't be allowed to drive. My lack of cultural understanding of these things has not made me any less willing to call them out as being hostile to women, even though they obviously have their share of supporters. I'm not willing to accept the idea that I can't speak against the idea of a woman's state of dress being a source of some man's honor because it might offend the beliefs of the women who support it (that was what the whole protest was about, if anyone's forgotten). I have to respect their right to believe, but I am emphatically NOT required to respect the belief itself, any more than I am required to respect Westboro Baptist because some women support it, or for that matter drone strikes or Israeli occupation because some women support those.

I also do not accept the idea that I need to live in a perfect society before I speak out against the problems women face in other societies. The end result of that would be that nothing would be spoken against, ever. There's an old saying about how evil prevails.