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When stoning is men's business : Comments

By Jocelynne Scutt, published 13/7/2012

For as long as one woman is at risk of death at the hands of a legal system devised and enforced by men, then men are responsible.

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That is another issue which Ms[?] Scutt ignores; the God's Police and Damned Whore's Syndrome. It is well known that members of oppressed groups can be at the forefront of oppression of the group they are members, surrepstitiously or not, of.

Ms Scutt's thesis needs a lot of work, apart from the salient point of Islam and stoning.
Posted by cohenite, Monday, 16 July 2012 9:43:11 PM
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Hi Cohenite,

Yes, you may be right: "It is well known that members of oppressed groups can be at the forefront of oppression of the group they are members, surreptitiously or not, of."

Oy. I'm not sure how one can be surreptitiously oppressed, but we'll let that one go through to the keeper. The point is that surely women, in oppressed groups, are almost always far more likely to be at the "forefront of oppression" than their menfolk, isn't that so ?

Whether it happens to be Sudanese women in their half-million-population refugee camps (Note: to SHY), or Afghan women, or Aboriginal women, or even Carlton Greenie professional women, they are more likely to be sold off, raped, murdered, set on fire, die in childbirth, beaten, or in the case of the Carlton set, insulted in some small way, than men - isn't that so ?

Shalom,

Joe
Posted by Loudmouth, Monday, 16 July 2012 11:30:58 PM
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So "oppression" of women is the natural state of affairs and "emancipation" of women is a Western deception driven by the Capitalist's desire to profit from all work done in society, not just that performed by males.
Western women still do nearly all the unpaid work in the community, as well as holding down jobs (overwhelmingly as wage slaves) and driving the demand for labour saving household items, leisure, fitness and beauty products.
The motivation behind "rights" movements is always profit, women's rights should really be called the women's Industry, it's still a hegemonic capitalist system and the only way to challenge it would be via the deflationary effect of a mass exodus of women from paid work, hit em in the pocketbook as they say.
Posted by Jay Of Melbourne, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 6:51:44 AM
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