"The people who should REALLY be leading the response to the statements made by the cleric are IRANIAN and MUSLIM WOMEN, who have, you know, the LIVED EXPERIENCE of dealing with these statements every day, but their voices are silenced by us obnoxious and entitled white-educated-secular types who feel the need to make a BOOBQUAKE instead of really listening and standing in solidarity. Our form of protest also bars and mocks women who CHOOSE to dress modestly — such as women who wear the niqab – from participating in and being at the forefront of the protest, a protest which actually affects their lives far more than ours."
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Switchin’ to glide: Where were all of the feminists? Oh, right, busy planning a “Boobquake” (via annaham) (via abbyjean)
There’s a point to this, but as someone who was in a really, seriously fucked-up relationship with a Muslim man [attn: he was not fucked up because he was Muslim, but he sure as hell used his religious beliefs as an excuse to try to control me] who pushed me constantly to dress “modestly” (subtext: why are you such a whore) and wanted to control my sexuality, this reads an AWFUL LOT like slut-shaming.
Maybe it’s my personal baggage, and maybe yes the Boobquake was sort of silly. But it’s not just women in Iran or Muslim women who are treated like second-class citizens by the clothing they wear. Women’s clothing is always policed, whether we’re too slutty or not slutty enough, stylish or not stylish or for heaven’s sake performing femininity too much for some of the self-styled “radicals”. So instead of preaching yet again how stupid those white women were for daring to claim some rights to what to do and how much to display of their bodies, can we discuss what would be an effective counterprotest that would involve all women?
