@afgmeh "The prolific Iranian incel activist Icyshah once argued that Iran was a discriminatory matriarchy because his law school class was almost all women and he was still not able to get a wife." (lemmy.ml)

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[-] Frank@hexbear.net 21 points 1 week ago

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Well, yeah, at least at some points Iran has, in some ways, had very good education for women. Jobs? Problems there. But higher education they've been pretty good at times. Dunno where things stand now. It's an important component in understanding Islamic feminisms and how they differ from western feminisims.

[-] thetaT@hexbear.net 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

what is "Islamic feminism" and "western feminism"? i'm sorry, but "western feminism" sounds like a term used by reactionaries

[-] SadArtemis@hexbear.net 18 points 1 week ago

It's a term used as much by genuine progressives as it is by reactionaries IMO (for instance in critiques of white feminism, imperialist feminism and western pinkwashing, etc). There is a genuine larger world of feminists (and other progressives) out there who have serious bones to pick with the western portrayal of itself as the end-goal and arbiter of progress..

There's Islamic feminism, indigenous feminism, black feminism, communist feminism, etc. Even western feminism (and "feminism") has its serious divisions and many outright wreckers/appropriaters tbh.