{"id":356,"date":"2003-09-04T11:07:05","date_gmt":"2003-09-04T19:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2003\/09\/04\/some-things-to-get-feminists-rightly-pissed-off\/"},"modified":"2003-09-04T11:07:05","modified_gmt":"2003-09-04T19:07:05","slug":"some-things-to-get-feminists-rightly-pissed-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=356","title":{"rendered":"Some things to get feminists rightly pissed off"},"content":{"rendered":"

Electric Venom<\/a> has an excellent (although depressing) post compiling reasons pissed-off feminists are needed worldwide. What follows is a sample, but you should go read the whole thing<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Why<\/a>?<\/p>\n

When Iran’s vice-president, Massoumeh Ebtekar, plans to travel to an international conference on climate change, she has to get a written note from her husband granting her legal permission to leave the country.<\/div>\n

Why<\/a>?<\/p>\n

The Saudi government and the Taliban share many traits when it comes to the treatment of women, who make up 57 % of Saudis, but are considered minors by Saudi law. Women have the legal status of a car, where they are transferred from their father\u2019s custody to their husbands\u2019 or sons\u2019. They are unable to buy a mobile phone, register in college, travel, and accept marriage proposal among other things, without male approval. — Ali Ah-Ahmed, Executive Director of the Saudi Institute in testimony to the U.S. Congress, June 4, 2002<\/div>\n

Meanwhile, Brian Flemming<\/a> – author of a play I linked to yesterday, Fair & Balanced<\/a> – reports on the evidence that the Republican choice for leading California simply hates women. Again, I’m reproducing a sample, but read the whole thing<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cDuring the production of the 1991 mega-blockbuster Terminator 2: Judgment Day, a producer on that film recalls Arnold\u2019s emerging from his trailer one day and noticing a fortyish female crew member, who was wearing a silk blouse. Arnold went up to the woman, put his hands inside her blouse, and proceeded to pull her breasts out of her bra. Another observer says, \u201cI couldn\u2019t believe what I was seeing. This woman\u2019s nipples were exposed, and here\u2019s Arnold and a few of his clones laughing. I went after the woman, who had run to the shelter of a nearby trailer. She was hysterical but refused to press charges for fear of losing her job. It was disgusting.\u201d “Arnold the Barbarian”: Premiere Magazine<\/em> March 2001<\/div>\n

Finally, read this MEMRI report <\/a>on how some Islamic intellectuals are trying to defend wife-beating as a valid cultural tradition. The article also includes some information about female Muslim activists resisting and demanding change.<\/p>\n

This demand for a new interpretation regarding women in Islam, as produced by the Aisha school of thought \u2013 if one can call it that \u2013 must gain special importance in the Islamic world and must get the attention of clerics. These cannot be dismissed as a [Western] plot to destroy the morals and values of Muslim women. When five veiled Muslim women stand up at an international conference \u2013 the first Canadian of Lebanese origin, the second Afro-American, the third a businesswoman from Malaysia, the fourth a Tunisian Frenchwoman, and the fifth an Egyptian student \u2013 and demand reform in religious law regarding women in Islam, it is impossible, in my opinion, to ignore this demand or to assume it is an anti-Muslim act\u2026 The traditional Islamic institutions have forsaken them, and they have been forced to turn to international conferences on religious law to express their ideas.<\/div>\n

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Electric Venom has an excellent (although depressing) post compiling reasons pissed-off feminists are needed worldwide. What follows is a sample, but you should go read the whole thing. Why? When Iran’s vice-president, Massoumeh Ebtekar, plans to travel to an international … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-site-and-admin-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}