If it's torture, why are so many people "demonstrating" it and living to tell and talk about it with no physical or emotional harm? You don't see so-called torture demonstrations for cutting off fingers and limbs, burning skin, slapping, punching or hitting, etc.
This is a big joke. It's NOT torture and saying it is does a disservice to actual torture.
The notion too that if we torture our own may be tortured is total B.S. The other "side" doesn't wear uniforms, bombs women and children, cuts off heads and burns bodies. Torture is the least of our worries. What a joke our so-called "leaders" have become.
It's also a complete lie that torture doesn't work. It does, which is why it's been around for thousands of years. Ask the Chinese.
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
Pulling the Veil Back and Putting it On
The 60s and 70s were a time of great change. Sure enough. Civil rights were a big deal. Feminism meant standing up for women's rights (both human and state) while others sat down or remained silent.
But, the threats were never really real, were they? Women standing up to a patriarchal society with protests and op-eds and books with the consequences of these bold actions ranging from strange looks to maybe NOT getting what you want. But, if you complain and whine loud enough, well The Man will give in.
And so, here we are 30-40 years later and the veil has been pulled back to reveal: not so tough or committed after all. The years of privilege have made so-called feminist weak. But I suspect they were probably weak to begin with. It is much easier and safer to rail against a system in which you know you are protected-- that you can say or do anything and the greatest harm that will likely befall you is a short jail stint in a Western prison.
Now, in the world of hajibs and Mohammad teddy bears and women rape and then being punished for it by stoning/lashing/death in Middle Eastern countries, the "feminists" are silent. "We have no comment" says NOW after the Mohammad incident in Sudan.
The consequences of standing up to the patriarchal societies of the Middle East are extremely dire and the penalty severe. Any woman who would stand up to these "morality" thugs would surely be needing the support and courage from Western women who, in the safe confines of a liberal society, fear nothing, sacrifice nothing and offer nothing to help their sisters suffering across the pond.
Rather, the feminist "movements" of today are more concerned with filling their coffers and beating the same old "Man" and living in the past of 30 years ago -- singing their own praises, complaining about the same 'ol so-called inequalities and patting themselves on the back for a job well done.
I guess I shouldn't be too hard on them. Even though the risks taken weren't so risky, they still believed they were. That's what Dorothy thought too. That her big journey was risky and the wizard was greater and more powerful than he was. But when she pulled back the curtain, she saw a wrinkly little old man. When we pull back the veil on the feminist, we see nearly the same thing -- a wrinkly little old woman who would rather have women leave the veil on, sit down and shut up.
For Dorothy, it was all a dream. For the women living in oppressive Islamist-fascism, it's a nightmare in which they never escape.
RIP little one. Will feminists denounce her murder?
But, the threats were never really real, were they? Women standing up to a patriarchal society with protests and op-eds and books with the consequences of these bold actions ranging from strange looks to maybe NOT getting what you want. But, if you complain and whine loud enough, well The Man will give in.
And so, here we are 30-40 years later and the veil has been pulled back to reveal: not so tough or committed after all. The years of privilege have made so-called feminist weak. But I suspect they were probably weak to begin with. It is much easier and safer to rail against a system in which you know you are protected-- that you can say or do anything and the greatest harm that will likely befall you is a short jail stint in a Western prison.
Now, in the world of hajibs and Mohammad teddy bears and women rape and then being punished for it by stoning/lashing/death in Middle Eastern countries, the "feminists" are silent. "We have no comment" says NOW after the Mohammad incident in Sudan.
The consequences of standing up to the patriarchal societies of the Middle East are extremely dire and the penalty severe. Any woman who would stand up to these "morality" thugs would surely be needing the support and courage from Western women who, in the safe confines of a liberal society, fear nothing, sacrifice nothing and offer nothing to help their sisters suffering across the pond.
Rather, the feminist "movements" of today are more concerned with filling their coffers and beating the same old "Man" and living in the past of 30 years ago -- singing their own praises, complaining about the same 'ol so-called inequalities and patting themselves on the back for a job well done.
I guess I shouldn't be too hard on them. Even though the risks taken weren't so risky, they still believed they were. That's what Dorothy thought too. That her big journey was risky and the wizard was greater and more powerful than he was. But when she pulled back the curtain, she saw a wrinkly little old man. When we pull back the veil on the feminist, we see nearly the same thing -- a wrinkly little old woman who would rather have women leave the veil on, sit down and shut up.
For Dorothy, it was all a dream. For the women living in oppressive Islamist-fascism, it's a nightmare in which they never escape.
RIP little one. Will feminists denounce her murder?
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