June 13, 2006, - 2:30 pm
Once Beaten, Twice Soccer Shy: Why It’s a Bummer to Be an Iranian Chick
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It’s a buzzkill to be a chick in Iran.
First they’re not allowed to cheer for their loser national soccer team, which got trounced by Mexico in the World Cup. (They’ve been banned, since 1979, from attending soccer games in their homeland. Their ankles and noses might turn someone on, and a riot could start.) Now, they get beaten for the crime of talking and asking for equal rights. And, oh, wanting to make it illegal for Iranian men to have four wives.
Yesterday, the Iranian police beat the women with batons and shields. And arrested 70 of them. Religion of peace, baby! And not a peep from Martha Burk, Gloria Steinem, or any of the sagging American bra-burner crowd.
Tags: Debbie Schlussel It, Gloria Steinem, Iranian police, Islamic Republic of Iran, Martha Burk, Mexico, soccer, World Cup
It’s very telling how differently women are thought of in the West as opposed to the non-West. Now if I can just figure out why…
Why no noise from the radical feminists? Could it possibly be that their only target is, hmm… I don’t know, the white male? Just thinking out loud here…
Marcubius on June 13, 2006 at 4:07 pm