This Is What Saudi Arabia's First PSA For Violence Against Women Looks Like

[LadyHawkAZ]

130. Pay attention to, sure.

Use them as an instrument to prevent change? No.

Use them to silence critics of abuses within the culture that they, from inside the culture, may not be willing or able to see? Definitely no.

The women of the FLDS have had plenty to say in praise of their psychotic little culture too. Listen? Sure. Allow them to go on about their business as they think their God wants, as interpreted by their male leaders? Fuck no. Go on jailing their child-raping POS church leaders and removing their underage "wives" from the psychotic little cult? Absolutely. My attitude doesn't change based on how many people a particular church has managed to brainwash (or force or threaten) into their ranks. Religious misogyny is still misogyny, in fact it is our greatest source of misogyny, and needs to be pushed back against as much as possible until it is extinct.

France's law IIRC also bans headscarves, which is the part that bothers me. I don't have a problem with a law that says your facial features must be uncovered and identifiable in public areas. That's a safety issue, particularly in a Western country. I don't think that was the reasoning behind the law, but that is the way I see it. If you are going to do things like attend school and take tests, or shop with a credit card, or go to banks, drive etc, other people need to be able to easily see that you are really you. Hijab allows that and really should have been exempt.