''But it is better than the Taliban'' is a pretty low bar...
With Afghanistan being all over the news cycle, the #NotAllMen crowd are very busy on the feminist interwebs pointing out how lucky we women in the west are cause our patriarchy is not a death cult patriarchy, or something…
As Laurie Penny once said:
‘’The oppression of women is a global phenomenon because patriarchy is a global phenomenon. It’s embedded in the economic and social structures of almost every nation and community on earth. Sexism and misogyny, however, look different across boundaries of culture and religion, as well as across divides of race and class and between generations.’’
Men using the Taliban’s resurgence and their inevitable deadly oppression of Afghani women and girls as the bar by which they measure western systemic patriarchy and misogyny, need to stop it. Not being stoned to death is not a legitimate measure of female equality, because of course it is not. Men patting themselves on their misogynist interwebs backs because they don’t do that, because of course they are.
That we need to point this out...
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"Shut up and be grateful"
