May 24, 2007
In Where I Do One Of My 'Angry' Posts
For those of you not in fandom circles, Joss Whedon posted on a website about the honor killing of Dua Khalil. Now this is a good thing. It is. Having a big name Hollywood liberal bringing attention the subject is a nice change and can only help bring awareness on the issue. Those of you who've read my blog for the last five years know that the plight of women under radical Islam is one of my 'issues'. But the overall response on the web to his post irritates the hell out of me. Most act like this is some new thing. Because Joss brought it up, it's now an approved issue to care about. Where have these people been!?!? Can they actually have been totally unaware that this sort of violence against women is commonplace? It's incredibly frustrating. and it points out once again how out of touch with real women's issues the western feminist establishment is. If they'd been doing their job, this issue would be common knowledge, not a huge surprise to so many.
Why aren't there demands for sanctions against countries that practice 'gender apartheid'? I'm sure many of you remember what happened to South Africa in the old apartheid days. Where's the same outrage on behalf of a whole society of subjugated women? The Left is always telling us how much they care about women, but I see precious little proof of that. They're the ones that run big media, and if they wanted to publicize the plight of these womenit, they could. They have the megaphone. They just aren't interested in using it.
Posted by Ith at May 24, 2007 10:27 AM | PROCURE FINE OLD WORLD ABSINTHE