What is it with lefty women and Islam?
That has puzzled me for some time and then a couple of weeks ago the mystery was solved when I heard an interview (on NPR believe it or not). The reason feminists LIKE the Muzzies and Islam is because Muzzie women live life surrounded by other women! They only ‘get it on’ with a man when their man wants it. Other than that, their ENTIRE life is spent talking with, working with (as in working at home) and socializing EXCLUSIVELY WITH WOMEN. It is very much a female-segregated-from-male society because the men have no use for the women as ‘partners in life’ the way Western culture does. It was like a lightbulb going on when I heard this!
Makes a lot of sense. May our American Liberal women be subjected to the whims of a hairy, smelly, 300 lb camel herder. And may he loan them out to his friends.
Exclusively with other slaves, that is. In Islamic society a man can (and frequently does) dump an old, worn-out wife and bring home another one; he marries them for different purposes, one for his house slave, one to bring up the children, one for sex, etc. And they apparently do not get along enormously well and there is a considerable amount of rivalry and cruelty, since one wife is usually more powerful than the others.
A thoroughly nasty society. It’s not the Girl Scout troop pajama party.
Interesting point — the segregation and seclusion of Muslim women, though forced on them by men, allows them a certain sisterhood and solidarity that Western women don’t have. I guess back in the day, like back in the 1950’s, Western housewives had something similar. My grandmother and her neighborhood friends were very close knit. When the kids were at school and the husbands were at work, the Moms would shop and run errands together, do PTA stuff together, and, if there was time, play bridge and have drinks together. It was like a ladies’ social club. Funny how the femininists see that period as the dark ages for western women. And funny how they’re able to find something good in a similar culture (reason being, of course, that the culture is that of The Other).
Other reasons why leftist women might have a thing for the hajib: it’s exotic; a buried desire to feel chaste and forbidden; a buried desire to be dominated by men (a desire that post-modern post-male liberal men can’t fulfill); wearing one is subversive and sure to tweak conservatives.