so i was watching PBS the other night, and this program came on about an american lady who visits her husband's family in Iran.
anyway...i enjoyed seeing inside an iranian family home...and it brought back memories of the time i spent living in the middle east.
i bring this up, not because i want to just share with you what i watch on television, but because of something that was said in the documentary. of course a lot of the documentary dealt with the way that iranians view americans and our culture.
one of the men she talked to during her stay there was a professor of some type and he asked her..."do women have their own place in American society?"
she was a bit puzzeld by his phrasing of his question (maybe due to the translation) but responded, "yes...they have their own place where they desire tpo make it." (ok, my paraphrasing is horrible) but he clairfied..."let me tell you why i ask this question. i ask this question because WE believe that american women are puppets." she asked him to elaborate.
he went on (for a LONG time which is not all in the documentary) "we believe that women are men's puppets in america.... in pornography they are used by men, and they do whatever they want with the women... women in america stand in store windows naked to sell products, they are puppets."
(again, my paraphrasing is horrible) but you get the point.
now this man obviously had an agenda and wanted to just say his piece and was not open for a real "discussion", but i have to say that i was floored with his commitment to this "truth" that he felt he had.
after all the time i was in the middle east i KNEW that arab men didn't respect me, despite the fact that i wore the local "attire". but i thought they didn't respect me because they thought that i was a "loose woman" (like all the other woman that they see in american tv and movies).but i guess now i realize that it is more than that. our society doesn't respect women and their role in society.
(dont' get me wrong...i don't think that iranian women are treated like queens, but isn't there a middle ground? couldn't there be one?)
MANY american women have fully embraced that we as a society DO treat our women as puppets or product whores if you will. i think that is obviously what many of us are sick of. so i guess i just don't understand why if men of other cultures can so EASILY see this, why do so many men have such a problem accepting this and seeing it as something that should be stopped or changed.
the only conclusion that i can come to is that the majority of american men don't WANT to see it stopped, they like things the way they are.
anyway...i enjoyed seeing inside an iranian family home...and it brought back memories of the time i spent living in the middle east.
i bring this up, not because i want to just share with you what i watch on television, but because of something that was said in the documentary. of course a lot of the documentary dealt with the way that iranians view americans and our culture.
one of the men she talked to during her stay there was a professor of some type and he asked her..."do women have their own place in American society?"
she was a bit puzzeld by his phrasing of his question (maybe due to the translation) but responded, "yes...they have their own place where they desire tpo make it." (ok, my paraphrasing is horrible) but he clairfied..."let me tell you why i ask this question. i ask this question because WE believe that american women are puppets." she asked him to elaborate.
he went on (for a LONG time which is not all in the documentary) "we believe that women are men's puppets in america.... in pornography they are used by men, and they do whatever they want with the women... women in america stand in store windows naked to sell products, they are puppets."
(again, my paraphrasing is horrible) but you get the point.
now this man obviously had an agenda and wanted to just say his piece and was not open for a real "discussion", but i have to say that i was floored with his commitment to this "truth" that he felt he had.
after all the time i was in the middle east i KNEW that arab men didn't respect me, despite the fact that i wore the local "attire". but i thought they didn't respect me because they thought that i was a "loose woman" (like all the other woman that they see in american tv and movies).but i guess now i realize that it is more than that. our society doesn't respect women and their role in society.
(dont' get me wrong...i don't think that iranian women are treated like queens, but isn't there a middle ground? couldn't there be one?)
MANY american women have fully embraced that we as a society DO treat our women as puppets or product whores if you will. i think that is obviously what many of us are sick of. so i guess i just don't understand why if men of other cultures can so EASILY see this, why do so many men have such a problem accepting this and seeing it as something that should be stopped or changed.
the only conclusion that i can come to is that the majority of american men don't WANT to see it stopped, they like things the way they are.
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