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politics[Note: This was originally posted to my personal DW journal, and the_future_modernes asked if I'd like to post it here. I said I'd be glad to, but I've edited it to remove the language that would make my grandmother give the "so disappointed" look.]
President Nicolas Sarkozy hand-delivers to President Obama a letter from Roman Polanski asking for clemency, because all he did was have sex with a little girl after getting her stoned on Quaaludes and champagne, and then submits a bill to ban women from wearing the veil in public because burqa-style veils "threaten the dignity of women."
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The irony is thick enough to choke on.
Seriously, who actually believes that this ban is going to help women? It's an assault on the rights of women who choose to wear the veil, and the only thing it'll do for women who are being forced to wear it is make things worse! What does he think, that if a woman's family is forcing her to wear a burqa or niqab, they'll just change their minds when confronted with this law? "Oh," they'll say, "well in that case, dearest, you go on and don't wear it, that's okay. The president said!" No, she'll just be that much further confined, because she can't leave the house without wearing it, and she can't go out in public unless she takes it off.
This law isn't about helping women. It may be about discomfort with another culture, or anti-Islamic bigotry, or I don't even know what -- and you don't know me very well if you think I don't believe that part of this is an unexamined belief that really, women are public property to start with. But whatever it's about, and whatever's underlying it, it isn't about the dignity of women, and it sure as the sunrise isn't about helping them.
the_future_modernes asked if I'd like to post it here. I said I'd be glad to, but I've edited it to remove the language that would make my grandmother give the "so disappointed" look.]President Nicolas Sarkozy hand-delivers to President Obama a letter from Roman Polanski asking for clemency, because all he did was have sex with a little girl after getting her stoned on Quaaludes and champagne, and then submits a bill to ban women from wearing the veil in public because burqa-style veils "threaten the dignity of women."
...
The irony is thick enough to choke on.
Seriously, who actually believes that this ban is going to help women? It's an assault on the rights of women who choose to wear the veil, and the only thing it'll do for women who are being forced to wear it is make things worse! What does he think, that if a woman's family is forcing her to wear a burqa or niqab, they'll just change their minds when confronted with this law? "Oh," they'll say, "well in that case, dearest, you go on and don't wear it, that's okay. The president said!" No, she'll just be that much further confined, because she can't leave the house without wearing it, and she can't go out in public unless she takes it off.
This law isn't about helping women. It may be about discomfort with another culture, or anti-Islamic bigotry, or I don't even know what -- and you don't know me very well if you think I don't believe that part of this is an unexamined belief that really, women are public property to start with. But whatever it's about, and whatever's underlying it, it isn't about the dignity of women, and it sure as the sunrise isn't about helping them.
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Date: 2010-04-22 03:28 pm (UTC)EDIT: The same type of nonsense is happening in Canada