Comments on: Do You See Any Misogyny? http://www.butterfliesandwheels.org/2006/do-you-see-any-misogyny/ Fighting fashionable nonsense Wed, 22 May 2013 23:01:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Don http://www.butterfliesandwheels.org/2006/do-you-see-any-misogyny/#comment-16486 Don Wed, 26 Jul 2006 18:41:16 +0000 http://www.butterfliesandwheels.org/?p=15645#comment-16486 Tomorrow BBC2 is broadcasting 'Death of a Teenage Girl', a documentary on the public murder of Atefah Sahaaleh. Do you have access to digital BBC?<br /> <br /> I'm sure the usual crew have already expressed their outrage at this fresh evidence of Islamophobia at the beeb.<br /> <br /> Tomorrow BBC2 is broadcasting ‘Death of a Teenage Girl’, a documentary on the public murder of Atefah Sahaaleh. Do you have access to digital BBC?

I’m sure the usual crew have already expressed their outrage at this fresh evidence of Islamophobia at the beeb.

]]> By: Brian Miller http://www.butterfliesandwheels.org/2006/do-you-see-any-misogyny/#comment-16485 Brian Miller Wed, 26 Jul 2006 18:02:19 +0000 http://www.butterfliesandwheels.org/?p=15645#comment-16485 Smart ass, OB. LOL. But, you all know that after too many years of LIBERAL influence, there might be enough gender confusion out there that we need to make very clear that it will indeed be males undertaking the enforcement of virtue! Smart ass, OB. LOL. But, you all know that after too many years of LIBERAL influence, there might be enough gender confusion out there that we need to make very clear that it will indeed be males undertaking the enforcement of virtue!

]]> By: OB http://www.butterfliesandwheels.org/2006/do-you-see-any-misogyny/#comment-16484 OB Tue, 25 Jul 2006 20:38:34 +0000 http://www.butterfliesandwheels.org/?p=15645#comment-16484 Oh ew.<br /> <br /> In a way stuff like that bothers me (and affronts me) more than the more overt oppression. Just the blotting out of existence, the complete negation.<br /> <br /> This is why I get so disproportionately huffy about things like publisher sending my co-author a copy of the book we both wrote and not sending me one - because it's like that. Just a blithe quiet arbitrary erasure. It's the same thing. How many children do you have? Three. Who wrote Why Truth Matters? A man. Oh ew.

In a way stuff like that bothers me (and affronts me) more than the more overt oppression. Just the blotting out of existence, the complete negation.

This is why I get so disproportionately huffy about things like publisher sending my co-author a copy of the book we both wrote and not sending me one – because it’s like that. Just a blithe quiet arbitrary erasure. It’s the same thing. How many children do you have? Three. Who wrote Why Truth Matters? A man.

]]> By: Don http://www.butterfliesandwheels.org/2006/do-you-see-any-misogyny/#comment-16483 Don Tue, 25 Jul 2006 19:57:54 +0000 http://www.butterfliesandwheels.org/?p=15645#comment-16483 They cast them out. Ain't having no female sons in this house, dammit.<br /> <br /> Many years ago, when I was working in Sudan, I was struck by one aspect of small talk ( I'm rubbish at languages and my arabic never got beyond routine pleasantries and survival level).<br /> <br /> If you asked someone how many children they had ( and it was one of the basics) the answer would include all boys, living or dead, but not the girls.<br /> <br /> Thus, a father with two live sons and one dead, and three living daughters, would have three children.<br /> <br /> I was a callow youth at the time, but it struck me as disturbing.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> They cast them out. Ain’t having no female sons in this house, dammit.

Many years ago, when I was working in Sudan, I was struck by one aspect of small talk ( I’m rubbish at languages and my arabic never got beyond routine pleasantries and survival level).

If you asked someone how many children they had ( and it was one of the basics) the answer would include all boys, living or dead, but not the girls.

Thus, a father with two live sons and one dead, and three living daughters, would have three children.

I was a callow youth at the time, but it struck me as disturbing.

]]> By: OB http://www.butterfliesandwheels.org/2006/do-you-see-any-misogyny/#comment-16482 OB Tue, 25 Jul 2006 19:10:50 +0000 http://www.butterfliesandwheels.org/?p=15645#comment-16482 What are they training their female sons to do? What are they training their female sons to do?

]]> By: Brian Miller http://www.butterfliesandwheels.org/2006/do-you-see-any-misogyny/#comment-16481 Brian Miller Tue, 25 Jul 2006 19:06:15 +0000 http://www.butterfliesandwheels.org/?p=15645#comment-16481 Nah, GT. Why would American leaders forward such a missive? Those in power in the U.S. are not trying to stop this. They are TAKING NOTES. I'm sure the Prairie Muffins are already training their (male) sons for the exciting new career opportunities in the public virtue enforcement realm. Nah, GT. Why would American leaders forward such a missive? Those in power in the U.S. are not trying to stop this. They are TAKING NOTES. I’m sure the Prairie Muffins are already training their (male) sons for the exciting new career opportunities in the public virtue enforcement realm.

]]> By: Ian B Gibson http://www.butterfliesandwheels.org/2006/do-you-see-any-misogyny/#comment-16480 Ian B Gibson Tue, 25 Jul 2006 06:15:03 +0000 http://www.butterfliesandwheels.org/?p=15645#comment-16480 I seem to remember Laura Bush talking a lot about how the lives of women in Afghanistan were going to be dramatically improved, shortly after the original invasion.<br /> <br /> It's kinda sad that such talk is always just for the cameras. I seem to remember Laura Bush talking a lot about how the lives of women in Afghanistan were going to be dramatically improved, shortly after the original invasion.

It’s kinda sad that such talk is always just for the cameras.

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