Comments | lonesomefrog: An inconvenient wife.

lonesomefrog

An inconvenient wife.

Jul 02, 2009 11:33

I just wrapped up my first morning job. Part of it was an interview with the actor Shohreh Aghdashloo, an Iranian woman who is also an activist and a feminist who has worked, against her family's wishes, to bring to light the injustices and atrocities that take place in her country and culture as well as its undeniable beauty and grace of so many ( Read more... )

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yaz327 July 3 2009, 03:22:50 UTC

Thank you for posting this... this kind of senseless murder has to stop. Fuck relativism.

lonesomefrog July 3 2009, 05:00:25 UTC

I'm a great believer in relativism. This has nothing to do with that. And THIS is why I am against things like the burqa and face scarves and other claptrap. It has nothing to do with imposing my will on someone else's religion and everything to do with an utter refusal to tolerate subjugation and oppression. Fuck them and fuck that. No. Just no.

yaz327 July 3 2009, 07:11:00 UTC

Zero tolerance for oppression is the ideal -- it's appalling how this goes unchecked under the umbrella of relativism (live and let live need have ethical bounds).

What do we do next? I'm with you!