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An anecdote. I know a guy from a small country in that region that begins with Q and sounds like a common word for mucous membrane inflammation. His late fathe
by yakshaving_jgt 8y ago
An anecdote.
I know a guy from a small country in that region that begins with Q and sounds like a common word for mucous membrane inflammation. His late father was an imam. He wears the traditional garb when he is home. He is a fairly standard [person from that country].
I asked him why he feels women shouldn't have equal rights to men.
The beginning of his response: "Well, it is medically proven that women are natural carriers of disease…"
That's the culture there.
EDIT: Removed the country name because I'm flying their airline tomorrow.
- Numberwang 8y agoWell what he is saying is true. Women carry 52% of all disease.
- AdmiralAsshat 8y agoI recall seeing a video years ago (unable to locate it at the moment) with an imam explaining how science grounds the ruling that a woman's testimony is only worth half of a man's. He presented brain scans of a male brain and a female brain, explaining that men's brains light up in different areas when they speak versus when they recall memory. Women, on the other hand, use the same brain regions for speaking and for recollection. Thus, a woman's memory cannot be reliable, because when she speaks (which women do incessantly, so say the stereotypes), the memory is wiped out. It is very, very difficult to combat pseudoscience draped with religious authority.
- lotsofpulp 8y agoIt would be easy if much wealthier nations didn't support the religious authority.
- krapp 8y ago>It is very, very difficult to combat pseudoscience draped with religious authority. Luckily, that never happens in the Western world.
- yakshaving_jgt 8y agoOf course it does (and the sarcasm isn't lost on me), but nowhere near to the same extent. At least not these days anyway.
- xfitm3 8y agoJoel Olstein. It may be different but you can argue it’s just as extreme.
- yakshaving_jgt 8y agoNo, I couldn't. Nobody is being systematically murdered at the command of even America's nuttiest televangelists.
- magduf 8y agoI'd also like to point out that America's nutty televangelists are a uniquely American problem. The rest of the "western world" is not remotely as religious as America.
- magduf 8y agoThis is mainly a problem in the US. I can't think of any other western nations that have real problems with religious idiocy; the US seems to be unique in this regard. Don't blame the entire western world for something stupid that only the US does.
- krapp 8y agoFair enough, that's true relatively speaking. The rest of the western world justifies its idiocy mostly through nationalistic, ethnic and class bigotry. Although the anti-muslim prejudice there seems an awful lot like the anti-muslim prejudice here.
- yakshaving_jgt 8y ago
- decebalus1 8y ago> "Well, it is medically proven that women are natural carriers of disease…" Ok, fuck this. Woke up this morning and read the following: - US is pulling out of the Nuclear treaty with Russia - there's a huge cavity in Antarctic glacier - your anecdote I'm going for a walk, I guess I'm off the internet for today.
- rrauenza 8y ago> sounds like a common word for mucous membrane inflammation. This is driving me nuts -- what is this word?
- linksnapzz 8y agoCattarh. It's not used much in the US, more of a britishism.
- yakshaving_jgt 8y agoI'd say it's more of a Latinism. It's commonly used in Polish, and probably other languages too.
- IAmEveryone 8y agoQatar... yakshaving_jgt is going all islamophobe on Qatar here.
- yakshaving_jgt 8y agoAnd you calling legitimate criticism of an oppressive ideology a phobia means you are an apologist for those oppressors.
- laaph 8y agoI know a website that starts with an H and sounds like it could be associated with criminals. Some guy made an anecdote there, and generalized an entire country based on his anecdote. That's the culture right there.
- yakshaving_jgt 8y agoWould you care to provide your own anecdotes that contradict my conclusions based upon your own experience with that country? I mean, I’m sure you wouldn’t argue online from a position of complete ignorance, right?
- laaph 8y agoI know a professor who taught there for many years. He tells more stories about the heat than about his students, but his stories don't sound like that. Considering that from the way you've talked, it sounds like you've never been there and only have second hand information, so it seems equally valid to me. Do you want me to tell you stories of people like that in the US? I've worked with plenty of people who tell me that women are good for nothing except making more children. Should I tell you that the culture in the US is all about looking at women just as childbearers? True, I've never been to a country that starts with a "Q", but I've met many who have, many who tell differing tales. I have been in a muslim country long enough, I have my own perceptions on these things.
- yakshaving_jgt 8y agoI’ve worked in that country multiple times. It has no comparison to the US. Women have equal rights in the US for a start. It is also not commonplace in the US for men to beat their wives and daughters for not concealing themselves behind traditional garb. I have met young women over there who have told me first-hand how they’ve suffered. From other comments you’ve made, it appears you live in Turkey. I don’t think your experience applies, given Turkey’s recent political dispute with the Saudis over the Khashoggi murder. Notably, Turkey is also not a member of the Arab League.