What is it about anti-feminists? Not only are they MASSIVELY envious of other women's accomplishments, not only do they lie baldly and badly, but anti-feminists also appear incapable of doing adequate internet searches.
In this CanWest opinion piece, Lakritz - yet again - gets her knockers in a knit .... errr, her knickers in a knot over patriarchy. But not over your judeo/christian patriarchy. Oh no no no. She gives religious clerics a free pass when it comes to gynophobia justified by a male-centered and thus self-interested, reading of the Old and New Testaments.
Wrong, Naomi. I mentioned it here, when the story broke.... when members of another culture engage in evildoing, we're supposed to pretend it all just falls under the rubric of domestic violence. Since domestic violence occurs in all cultures, honour killings can be conveniently lumped into that category and we can keep pretending it's not particular to certain cultures.
Nobody's even mentioned the fact that Mohammad Shafia was living in this country with two wives, one of whom died with the girls. Let's just pass completely over that form of oppression visited on these two women, for fear of offending someone.
Basically what Lakritz says is this: Violence against women is worse, much much worse, and more evil when muslim men do it - oh, and "Where are the feminists?"
Oh really? Regardless of which gynophobic religious zealot ideology informs the child abusers, pedophiles, rapists, wife-beaters and serial murderers the end result looks and feels the same, doesn't it? Such as "honour killings" by William Pickton, Colin Thatcher and other upstanding christians.
Naomi, you are either 1) deliberately lying or 2) deliberately uninformed. In that you join other CanWest opinionists slagging feminism this summer.
Delicious update: From Dr Dawg, we read that an earlier Lakritz shrieeek has been thoroughly smacked down by Gisele Harrison, here.
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Lakritz is a MASSIVE opportunist, playing to an audience that likes to watch women bash other women. Ironically, feminists created the perch she now occupies so comfortably, from which she mocks them for money.
I find this stuff hilarious. The rightwingnuts wake up to issues that feminists have been dealing with for decades -- religious repression of women, violence, women's property and civil rights, etc., etc. -- only to use them to bash other women. The Muslim-bashing opportunities are just icing on the cake.
But, my, what a sad little person Ms Lakritz demonstrates herself to be.
Meanwhile, here in Winnipeg, yet another aboriginal woman has been found dead. The anti-feminists, as usual, are silent on this terrible and tragic issue. Yet when they do open their mouths, they are only capable of spewing hate.
Oh, the mindbending hypocrisy: the killing of muslim women is bad when it's done by muslim men, but A-OK when it's done by Israeli (or American, or Canadian) troops.
Not hard to see what really motivates Ms.Lakritz (and others like her), and it ain't compassion for muslim women.
Are you seriously suggesting that women are treated as badly in "western" cultures as they are in Muslim cultures? If so, you are utterly deluded.
Laktriz has an excellent point. Feminists have not done nearly enough to denounce the treatment of Mulsim women worldwide. It's a bizarre and striking blind-spot for feminists in general.
lept/rabbit is that you?
Remember lept? He didn't like the phrase 'fetus fetishist', said so, got thumped, went away with his little puff-ball tail between his legs.
Somebody help. The blog seems to be gone. How does one retrieve old stoooooopidities?
Lackwits also likes to bash that OTHER Naomi--Klein--whose success at connecting the socioeconomic dots is something she just can't match. Did you see what she said about The Shock Doctrine? Google it, you'll scream with laughter.
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