You know, there is one thing I have to say. Feminists have NOT been silent on the issues in the Muslim world. Ms. Magazine was one of the first places I read about how women are treated in the Muslim world some 20 years ago, and there were no apologetics about it. If you go to their website right now and search for “honor killing”, you’ll find 166 articles about it.
they aren’t represented in the Lib left or Code Pink.
the femminist movement sure has change since 20 years ago.
Now, they are all running after Obama.
“Feminists have NOT been silent on the issues in the Muslim world.”
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Have feminists also expressed their alarm and anger at “kitchen fires” in India and surrounding countries?
You are right Feminists have not been silent on issues in the Muslim world. Do they make it a priority? That is debatable. My impression and I did spend a bit of time pouring over feminist literature some of it almost as good as science fiction was that modern feminists were really concerned less about the plight of women in general or real fairness of opportunity but instead promoting a lifestyle that was hostile to that which was lived and desired by most men and women.
It was if they really believed men met in little clubs to plan how to keep women down which was and is hardly case. That men like to dominate and generally do should not be a surprise. It is nature. Just like little boys tend to be more rambunctious and aggressive, this is not a sickness it is a part of their nature and it is that nature in conjunction with the nature women that has built this modern world.
I believe that for all the negatives that have arisen from aggression and ego that the world would be much more mundane without the aggression of men just as I believe the world would be lacking so much beauty and refinement without the more openly emotional and often comforting nature of women. If humanity ever succeeds in eliminating the differences between the sexes it will have ushered in the end of humanity.
Well enough of my rambling...I hope you are doing well.