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In reply to the discussion: Why haven't you heard about *these* women? What you missed while you were distracted by boobies [View all]The Straight Story
(48,121 posts)Or something like that.
I am sure any minute now there will be folks swooping in to tell us how these women are wrong, imperialistic, etc and so and on.
Oh wait, they obeyed and kept their shirts on, so we won't try to pick them apart and spend time running around looking for reasons to complain about them.
At least folks aren't complaining they are pretty white women (which, btw, I didn't think we were allowed to call women pretty anymore - we can only use words to describe others that apply to both sexes, or else we are sexist women hating pigs or something - but I digress) - and we are also not calling them euro-centric and whining about their protests being wrong.
Also noticed not all those women were covered up enough - which might offend other muslim women. We need to call em out on that too. I see a few had signs in english as well.
And one big thing missing in the story you posted (but may be in the details - I will spend all of sunday researching all of this to find out why they are screwing up) is the absence of.....the name of a group.
You give a group a name and easier to get press. And you mentioned that "Why haven't you heard" - well, apparently they we in the news (you found them) but not much was posted about them. I hear there are some folk here who are feminists and I am guessing they probably covered all this well in their group.
Not to mention there are protests all over the world all of the time. And if you want yours to stand out you need to do something different.
Just make sure if you're a woman and you protest not to take off your shirt - other women might want you to keep it on and get back in the kitchen.