But I've read (what I'm sure was a true story) that getting fucked up the ass with a lava lamp is actually amazing, so maybe it's not going to have the effect you're going for. not to undermine your rage here
I'm so sorry. I certainly can't claim to know what that's like for you to hear that mess, but I can appreciate how incredibly ignorant and stupid those people are.
Linked via a dreamwidthtariq_kamalMarch 30 2010, 03:45:07 UTC
Oh, wow. Wow.
If you think that, as a white person, it is your duty to save Muslim women in the Western world from their evil husbands/fathers/brothers because they’d be carefree and living in miniskirts and tanks if only they could get away from brown men, you are a stupid human being.
This is a beautiful, masterful thing of beauty. I… hahahaha!
Re: Linked via a dreamwidthchreeskoApril 3 2010, 17:15:59 UTC
Hee! Thank you. :-)
I have to be honest, that point was sort of tangential in my mind, and I was definitely coming at it from the perspective of, "No, the men in my life do not tell me what to do and I probably wouldn't listen even if they did, so please stop telling me I'm oppressed." But there's also the issues that a lot of Muslim men are sort of demonized. Now that you point it out, I find the perceptions of the influence that Muslim men have over Muslim women, especially in places that aren't the Arab part of the Middle East, to be very interesting. It's like some people just can't process that conservative Saudi Arabia =/= Islam.
The attitude is pretty pervasive, isn't it? I think the thing I've never been able to really grasp is why some people react so strongly to hijab/hijabis. I know they think that radical Islam is coming to eat their women and children and all that, but I feel like some people have a visceral reaction that moves beyond that.
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I'm so sorry. I certainly can't claim to know what that's like for you to hear that mess, but I can appreciate how incredibly ignorant and stupid those people are.
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Yeah, I guess that, no matter where you are or what your issues are, what it comes down to is that a lot of people are just assholes.
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Oh, wow. Wow.
If you think that, as a white person, it is your duty to save Muslim women in the Western world from their evil husbands/fathers/brothers because they’d be carefree and living in miniskirts and tanks if only they could get away from brown men, you are a stupid human being.
This is a beautiful, masterful thing of beauty. I… hahahaha!
LOEV IT. I BOW TO MASTER OF FORM.
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I have to be honest, that point was sort of tangential in my mind, and I was definitely coming at it from the perspective of, "No, the men in my life do not tell me what to do and I probably wouldn't listen even if they did, so please stop telling me I'm oppressed." But there's also the issues that a lot of Muslim men are sort of demonized. Now that you point it out, I find the perceptions of the influence that Muslim men have over Muslim women, especially in places that aren't the Arab part of the Middle East, to be very interesting. It's like some people just can't process that conservative Saudi Arabia =/= Islam.
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As a Muslimah, THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU! <3
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The attitude is pretty pervasive, isn't it? I think the thing I've never been able to really grasp is why some people react so strongly to hijab/hijabis. I know they think that radical Islam is coming to eat their women and children and all that, but I feel like some people have a visceral reaction that moves beyond that.
A few days early, but Ramadan Mubarak. :o)
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