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(48,121 posts)And not just of women. Same with different governments, other religions, philosophies, etc.
I call out rw fundies quite a bit and consider myself a non-denominational Christian.
I respect my sister's choice to be a fundie but saw for years how the church used their influence in a negative way, she finally started to go to a less 'legalistic' church (she used to wear head scarves to church, women keep silent sort of thing, etc). I don't think she was fully aware of other views and interpretations of things but that changed over time.
Calling out a mainstream religion in one particular area of the world I don't have a problem with either. Even if it pisses off some of those people it gets out information and awareness that there are other choices.
I posted something about pat robertson the other day on FB and my one jumped right in and told me basically it was left wing christian hating drivel and why did I hate christians, etc. Explained to him that in my view there were a lot better representations of the faith out there and he was bilking people out of money and nothing wrong with bringing that to light.
I don't want to remove peoples' choices of faith and such, but I don't think calling them out on it is all that bad really. Educate, explain, complain, compare and contrast, make people aware of broader things - and you can still respect their choices at the end of the day - especially by not trying to codify choices you prefer in forced actions/laws.
We were told men would not have cared about this whole protest thing if it didn't have boobs in it. But it seems the ones most distracted by that were the ones complaining about it so loudly. I see many men complaining about the crap that goes on in the middle east when it comes to how people are treated, from Iran hanging gay people to women being stoned to death for being raped. But no, the only reason we paid attention was a half naked woman.....
Islam has serious problems right now in some countries where the hard liners run things and women there don't have a fighting chance. Instead of applauding someone who shed a lot on that through her tactics she got vilified.
And just because we have problems too does not mean we can't bring to light problems elsewhere.