Race and Gender, Society and Culture
In August 2014, 12 members of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard charged into 28-year-old artist Atena Farghadani’s house, blindfolded her, and took her to prison.
She had posted a satirical cartoon on Facebook to protest proposed legislation to restrict birth control and women’s rights. Farghadani has since been found guilty of “spreading propaganda” and “insulting members of parliament through paintings.” She has been sentenced to 12 years in prison.
Farghadani is one of millions of women whose basic rights are being ruthlessly violated. In countries like Iran, Yemen, Egypt, and Cambodia, women are struggling for freedoms most women in the West take for granted.
But American feminists are relatively silent about these injustices — especially feminists on campus. During the 1980s, there were massive demonstrations on American college campuses against racial apartheid in South Africa. There is no remotely comparable movement on today’s campuses against the gender apartheid prevalent in large parts of the world. Why not?
Today’s young feminist activists are far too preoccupied with their own supposed victimhood to make common cause with women like Farghadani.
What? You mean all those women holding up those “Bring Back Our Girls” signs didn’t achieve anything, other than getting them a lot of Facebook likes?
You mean like:
“Facebook COO and “Lean In” author Sheryl Sandberg has a new term she wants to catch on in Silicon Valley: “Wogrammer.”
American Feminists are generally a bunch of widiots
The opression of women should not be a concern of only women. What are our big, powerful elected officials and candidates saying about this? More important, how are they helping women?
yes, yes, lets help the helpless women… ‘cuz they are equally capable.