--- Chris Doss <chrisd at russiajournal.com> wrote:
> I also suspect that a majority of Afghan women, who
> have after all been
> socialized in an extremely patriarchal system, would
> accept it themselves.
> People are not born wanting to be political. This is
> a completely
> non-Western, tribal culture. I doubt that a concept
> like "democracy" makes
> any sense at all to most Afghans, much less
> "equality of the sexes."
> Instead General Suhaila Siddiq, 60, sighs with
> exasperation at Western
> feminists and their obsession with the burka,
okay--so, women who organize against women being cut up & beat up are "harping" about the burqua. Kinda like when the media says the ERA is about forcing men & women to use the same bathrooms?
she is scornful of
> exiled Afghan women's rights campaigners and Western
> feminists who champion
> their agenda.
like you have to go all the way to Afghanistan to find women who are scornful of Western feminism?
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