On 10/28/06, Yoshie Furuhashi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I don't know what you mean by saying that the regime is "utterly patriarchal," but, imho, an utterly patriarchal regime denies women education as in Afghanistan under the Taliban, denies women the right to drive as in Saudi Arabia, denies women the right to vote as in Switzerland before 1971 (which stands out as an astoundingly late date for women to gain suffrage in the West), and so on.
one can easily be utterly patriarchal in intention. Anyway, I'm tired of your defending Iran by reference to the fact that "others do it worse." No-one said that Iran was _worse_ than all the other countries in the world. -- Jim Devine / "I wanna be with you in paradise / And it seems so unfair / I can't go to paradise no more / I killed a man back there." -- Bob Dylan.
