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every single one of those 10 photos is literally just women going about their day and the comments is nothing but gooners shocked to learn that iran has hot women too, and now that their attractive women arent covering up, suddenly westoids see the humanity in these people.
every “(middle eastern country) isnt as bad as we’re told” post on the default reddits is exactly like this. on the flip side there’s the “look, (middle eastern country) used to have lots of hot women til islam came along!” posts about afghanistan etc
just seems disgusting to me. they don’t care at all about these people. they’re just fantasizing that maybe somehow they can take advantage of global tensions and somehow end up with a hot iranian wife
Unpopular opinion: critical support.
Hear me out.
More than anything, this pattern is caused by patriarchy.
Racism is obviously at play, but it only adds flavor. Someone mentioned people mourning the loss of "big booty latinas," the operative words are clearly "big booty." It'd only be slightly less gross if they said "big booty women."
The patriarchal belief that many people have is "all else equal, attractive women have more value than unattractive women."
Patriarchy encourages infinite debate on exactly how much value a women's attractiveness has, and the common belief is that very attractive women are highly valued.
CW: example of gross patriarchy
"Would you rather sleep with a 10 or two 6s?"These pictures are only interesting to chuds because western media has systematically dehumanized folks the middle east so that our governments could attack them without public backlash.
They have been propagandized to believe that people in the middle east have no value, and these pictures challenge that.
Ultimately, these pictures are weaponizing patriarchy against imperialism. "Oh my god, I didn't realize we were bombing something of value" is a realization that more folks needs to have, but it's really icky that this was an effective way to do it.
I choose to believe the OP made an intentional decision to do that, and the fact that it caught on means that it worked.
If the goal is that more folks see people in the middle east as humans with value, I'll excuse leveraging people's existing shitty beliefs to do so.
The ends justify the means, but the means justify a shower.
they don't see them as humans with value. they see them as women to use.
Some don't, but it's a vast minority. It's certainly not the prevailing belief on reddit.
The belief "women have no value, and are only useful as sex objects," is fringe, redpill, loser shit.
The belief "attractive women are more valuable than unattractive women" is peak reddit.
I can't think of a belief that more succinctly describes the problem with reddit.