On 10/29/06, Jim Devine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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.
It seems to me that Iran or anything else can't be understood in
isolation from the rest of the world.
Take a look at the map of abortion laws in the world, for instance:
<http://www.crlp.org/pub_fac_abortion_laws.html>. Quite often, what
the Iranian government doesn't make available is also missing from a
majority of countries in the world.
--
Yoshie
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