The leftovers of flies
The fourth Women in Secularism is happening this weekend, and Paul Fidalgo is blogging each session. Maryam spoke yesterday.
At a time when the wearing of burqas and their beachwear variants is an incredibly heated topic, Namazie wasted no time, and withheld no ire, lambasting the enforced veiling of women in Islamic societies.
“Many feminists,” said Namazie, as well as other progressives and secularists, “defend the right to be veiled, but never the right to be unveiled and then live to tell the tale. What a betrayal.”
.@MaryamNamazie shows a shocking billboard in Iran promoting the hijab, translation: "No one wants to eat the leftovers of flies." #WiS4 pic.twitter.com/I0Omdq8Sj7
— Secular Coalition (@seculardotorg) September 23, 2016
Fidalgo continues:
“The veil, and the segregation that follows, are merely the most public manifestation of putting women in their place,” said Namazie, also saying, “Your refusal to disappear is an act of dissent.”
The veil is part and parcel of the larger marginalization and containment of women in Islamic societies, that emerges in countless other ways, among them being segregation, the absolute power of husbands over their wives, the rules about what size of rock is appropriate for stoning a woman, and the notion that the veil is really for the woman’s own protection.
Namazie impressed upon us that in these societies, “It is a crime to be a woman, and a woman who refuses to be disappeared.” Those women need us as allies.
Be an ally.
Did that remind anyone else of the “girls who have sex are like used chewing gum” crap that is taught in the U.S. in some “abstinence-only” sex ed programs?
Absolutely, Screechy Monkey.
And while grown women can dress how they like, school dress codes fuss over sleeveless tops and insist bare shoulders will make the boys unable to control their attention.
We’ve got more freedom than theocracies, but we’re still fostering many of the same unhealthy ideas.
Damn right – theocracratic societies/nations are a horror for women. But we are not very far away from the roots of that horror. . . I graduated from high school in 1968 – in living memory – and girls were not permitted to wear pants to school. If a girl was in a short skirt, the vice principal could pull her out and make her kneel in front of him so he could see whether her skirt touched the ground or not . . . secular societies retain their woman erasing and shaming ways even if they are a bit more subtle than say, Pakistan.
The “leftovers of flies” is sickening.
Merely unwrapping the candy is polluting.
This image, with explicit links to ‘abstinence’ propaganda with the same claim and rhetoric should be prominently posted wherever the regressive left is trying (or succeeding) to infiltrate feminism.