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Agree somewhat. Just like many Muslim women have bought into the misogyny inherent in having to wear a burqa, many people on the bottom in America have bought i
by eevilspock 7y ago
Agree somewhat. Just like many Muslim women have bought into the misogyny inherent in having to wear a burqa, many people on the bottom in America have bought into the meritocracy and American Dream myths.
- dredmorbius 7y agoYour arguments might be more compelling if you'd stick to one domain within a discussion, or at the very least, non-distractingly coherent ones. Your first comment was germane. This less so.
- eevilspock 7y agoI was replying to > those with higher status are more likely to believe status reflects merit. It correlates much less than one would think, much as being anti-burqa doesn’t correlate with gender within a Muslim population as much as we’d think.
- dredmorbius 7y agoFair enough, though that wasn't clearly communicated.
- dragonwriter 7y ago> Just like many Muslim women have bought into the misogyny inherent in having to wear a burqa I'm disinclined to view one set of sex-specific cultural standards of modesty as inherently sexist unless one views all of them that way.
- eevilspock 7y agoFor the most part I do. Americans disparage Muslim practices like this as backward, yet women here get arrested for breastfeeding in public. American puritanical attitudes differ from Muslim attitudes by degree, not kind. I’m generalizing of course. I’m talking about cultures, not every individual.