Today during class, we have a discussion on the Iraqi Constitution and its impact of foreigners and women. A girl to my right comments on how women will "finally be given equal rights to men" and will "have a lasting role in Iraq's society." I, being a listener of both sides raise the facts that women will be given more strict rights, since the constitution is going to be based on the centurys old Shiite law. In the Shiite laws, women who disobey their husbands and other male family members can be beat publicly and even beheaded. The girl seems to think she is on a roll for some reason and brings up that in the past 4 years, women in the middle east, and more recently Iraq have been given so many more freedoms. I tell the class that Iraq had been the most lenient country when it came to womens rights for the past 15 years. This is a fact. Iraq is viewed as a lawless land similar to Afghanastan pre-9/11, but really, it had been quite civilized, dispite its ruthless former dictator. The conversation takes a turn off track and she brings up sexism in the US. My lord! Who is this girl? Did she get cut in line by a 4th grade boy when she was 7? Did her dad not buy her that red Monte Carlo that she had begged for? She says that the American work force is largely composed of men and [she pulls a statistic out of her ass] 80% of franchise owners in America are men. I tell her that there is a reason for that. The reason I told the class was that women have kids! They do! I believe it is a scientific fact that the female homo sapien is the sex that wields children. I also believe that some enjoy stay at home lives over 9-5 office jobs and not wanting to start a 24/7 franchise or company is a choice that many mothers would not take! Not to mention that starting a business is a choice and no one hires you, since you are your own boss. Applying sexism to starting your own business is just foolish. These liberal yuppies who attempt to magnify the problems with this country just piss me off. I blame the Church, Media, and Parents. Considering that I get my information from the most trustful [on some variables] of the three, I consider myself a person who looks at points with as little bias as possible. When I commit to a conversation, in which bias, unfactual statements, and personal attacks come into play, I explode and write these huge threads that only 5 people will read-5 of which, don't even care.
Monday, August 29, 2005
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