Iran could be a feminist state in reverse.

Typically, the feminist author has not mentioned all the males who have been killed in repressive regimes such as Iran.

While the author believes that feminism is the voice of women, it definitely does not speak for men, with no academic feminists to my knowledge ever saying a single positive word about the male gender.

When every word being said about the male gender by an academic feminist is negative of the male gender, feminism now represents the highest levels of bigotry, discrimination, prejudice and myopic thinking in our education systems.

No wonder so many women do not call themselves a feminist.

All hail those women who refuse to call themselves a feminist. There may be hope yet.

Nice to see HRS/Timkins spouting the same old drivel under his new moniker of 'vanna'.

Did you actually read the article, HRSkins? If you had, you may have noticed that it's an article about women and how far they have to go to achieve equality in most of the world.

Interesting that when the US and Australia go to topple Saddam Hussein the violent left are visible everywhere. When it comes to the women oppressed in places like Iran, Saudi Arabia etc they are nowhere to be seen. No doubt like the terrorist Arafat the left are happy to be friends. When it comes to democracies like the US and Australia they cant wait to vent their anger.

C. J Morgan (The academic feminist who has yet to say a single positive word about anyone except feminists).

Iran is a good example of what happens when large groups of people start calling themselves an "ist".

Same thing has happened many times elsewhere.

Same thing, different "ist"

I really have to wonder how much world attention would have been paid to the tragic death of this one Iranian woman, if she weren’t such a stunner.

While I’m as keen as the next feminist to eliminate the howling gender inequality inflicted on the people of Iran by the Mullahs, I’m nervous about Western feminism taking this on board as an issue. Opinion polls have revealed at least 85-90% support for gender equality among the Iranian population, so interference from Western feminism into Iranian gender politics – as with any Western interference in Iranian politics in general – could well end up becoming counter-productive.

Also … The heavy restrictions placed on those who can qualify as candidates for elections do make the Iranian electoral system grossly unfair. However, it’s very unlikely that the election itself was actually rigged or stolen. Any serious scrutiny of the outcome fails to give any credence to the stolen election theory.

These Tehran street protests almost certainly emanate from the same skullduggery HQ as has the coup in Honduras, and the ongoing civil unrest being fermented in Venezuela and Bolivia. This latest Iranian chapter is just another ‘movement’ of well-heeled, pro-Western middle and upper classes against anti-Western, left-leaning, thoroughly demonised demagogues much loved by the rural and urban poor – who also happen to have the numbers necessary to achieve the kind of election outcomes that the West doesn't like.

Nice article Dannielle!

SJF, if you feel wary of supporting the women of Iran, there are lots of other opportunities in Australia where the courage and strength of women need to be supported, as Dannielle notes at the end of the article. Or Aung San Suu Kyi needs to know she is not alone, that is, if she is not too much of a "stunner" to merit our support.

Helen