Monday, January 09, 2006

Feminists' navel gaze

While American feminists continue to rant and rave about how bad they have it here in the United States, they continue to avert their gaze from those areas of the world where women actually do have it pretty damn bad. There is almost complete silence on the topic of honor killings and the repression of muslim women in the Middle East and Europe. They make no mention of the fact that millions of female babies are either killed or aborted in China because they are not males. And now that we learn the Chinese model of 'eliminating' female babies is the prefered method of female population control in India as well, I doubt we'll hear a peep about that from American feminists, either. Apparently American women are the only ones deserving of an even playing field in the world.

Feminists, you've come a long way in America. How about you start helping your international sisters who really do have it bad?

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