[lbo-talk] Women as tools: on the selective fetishization of female resistance fighters

[Joseph Catron]

"What’s beautiful is that these Kurdish fighters, both women and men, are
fighting for the rights of everyone who is potentially a victim of IS, no
matter their religion or ethnicity. Personally, I think the West can't
handle this. They can't accept this beauty. The YPJ is not only a militia,
but also a movement for the equality of women and men, aiming to change the
traditional societal stigmas that are attached to a woman's role within
Kurdish culture and also worldwide. The Western media has failed to portray
this, and instead we see headlines depicting an amazement that women are
killing IS members, as if it is something new and particularly
extraordinary that women guerilla fighters exist ..."

http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/women-tools-selective-fetishization-female-resistance-fighters

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"Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen
lytlað."