tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13073631.post8849377764789022523..comments2024-01-04T07:21:18.243-05:00Comments on John In Carolina: Terrible but unsurprising news from PakistanUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13073631.post-20054359697982488382008-12-29T20:38:00.000-05:002008-12-29T20:38:00.000-05:00Folks,In the above comment "progress made there" s...Folks,<BR/><BR/>In the above comment "progress made there" should read: "progress made in Afghanistan." <BR/><BR/>JohnJWMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08275423713054782480noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13073631.post-91844910791109462912008-12-29T18:17:00.000-05:002008-12-29T18:17:00.000-05:00To cks,There isn't much you say here with which I ...To cks,<BR/><BR/>There isn't much you say here with which I disagree, and with most of what you say I strongly agree but might not have said it as well.<BR/><BR/>Early in 2009 I plan to raise some of the issues you state here so well.<BR/><BR/>In one instance it will be to note that self-described feminists at Duke and in Durham were silent when the members of Duke's Woman's lacrosse team were trashed by many in media for simply asserting the three wrongly indicted frame-up victims were innocent.<BR/><BR/>The other instance will be in connection with what may happen in 2009 and going forward regarding the important, but much too limited, progress made there in very recent years in the treatment of women.<BR/><BR/><BR/>JohnJWMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08275423713054782480noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13073631.post-22108689028961711812008-12-27T10:18:00.000-05:002008-12-27T10:18:00.000-05:00Don't look for the Hollywood glitterati or other p...Don't look for the Hollywood glitterati or other politico types to say much about the treatment of Muslim women. That is not a glamorous cause. The education of young Muslim girls doesn't have the cachet that others issues seem to possess. I think there is this deep seated desire among many women to be possessed and ordered about. Hollywood fantasy and a number of video games play into this. There are men who fantasize about women who who cater to their every whim and those women who more than are willing to indulge men in such fantasies. While denying girls an education would seem to have no connection, the fact is that if young girls are not taught that they can do or be more than vessels for male fantasies then that is all they will ever be. The resurgence of the veil and chador(burka) are not really modesty issues - they are control issues on the part of men over women. What I find disturbing is the growing tendency of governments here in the United States to indulge (in the name of freedom of religion) in such cover-up for the purposes of drivers ID, etc. <BR/>I teach in an all-girls school. What amazes me are the numbers of girls who would willingly trade their freedoms to be possessed by a man who would provide for all their material needs. Though I do not consider myself a feminazi by any stretch of the imagination, I find it important thatyoung girls understand how dress (the chador and veil) limit their world view (put one on sometime and see just how restrictive movement and vision is)and that if dress can do that, how much more can laws.<BR/>cksAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com