Why is it that when we try teach men to respect women we always say imagine if she were your sister, or daughter, or mother? Why don’t we ever say imagine if you were in her place? Is it that even the very thought of a world in which men where harassed as women regularly are is so incomprehensible to us that we can’t even imagine it?
― pervasive thoughts on my mind. (via megannesbeth)
The Hannibal fandom tho like they came outta no where one second everyone was just
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FEMEN needs to recognize that Muslim women do in fact have agency, and the idea that Muslim women are helpless, passively indoctrinated by the alleged evils of Islam, and desperately need of Western feminist help is oppressive and orientalist. Patriarchy is not specific to Islam — although there are inarguably extreme and truly saddening examples of misogyny in the Muslim community, patriarchy is a global issue. Furthermore, feminism is not only a Western institution — to assume that Muslim women need someone to “speak for” them is insulting to all the grassroots political organizing and activism that Muslim feminists have done. It’s disturbing how a the rhetoric of “women’s liberation” has been co-opted to justify aggression, violence, and prejudice against Muslim communities. In what way is it appropriate to “rescue” women by indulging in and re-circulating essentializing, stereotyped, and offensive depictions of their culture?
