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jinianI absolutely love that Iranian men are wearing headscarves in protest against their government and against women's being required to. The story goes that protester Majid Tavakoli was arrested and photos (which may have been doctored) of him in a chador appeared in the media afterward. And then men came out of the woodwork to put photos on the web of them wearing their moms' flowered headscarves and such.
Professor Hamid Dabashi made me want to cry a little by saying: "They (Iranian government officials) use a standard cliche to try to humiliate men, as if being a woman were something bad, and thousands of Iranians respond by posting these pictures, showing there is absolutely nothing wrong with women or veiling..." THANK YOU!
Professor Hamid Dabashi made me want to cry a little by saying: "They (Iranian government officials) use a standard cliche to try to humiliate men, as if being a woman were something bad, and thousands of Iranians respond by posting these pictures, showing there is absolutely nothing wrong with women or veiling..." THANK YOU!
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Date: 2009-12-15 01:12 am (UTC)"We Iranian men are late doing this," Dabashi said. "If we did this when rusari was forced on those among our sisters who did not wish to wear it 30 years ago, we would have perhaps not been here today."
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Date: 2009-12-15 03:52 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-15 07:14 am (UTC)