The point is that we often in the west assume that we are going to help. However we pick and chose our battles not based on wheter people actually ask for our help but based on media hot topics. Who cared about the Afghan women when the Russians were occupying the country and raping the women.How many women were in school then? Nobody cared because it was not reported in the news. Where were the women rushing to help there fellow sisters in the refugees camps in Pakistan? The Taliban were heralded as heroes because they were helping to rebuild the society in Afghanistan.
However when US policy shifted they became villified, the same as in Saudi. The Saudis were lauded during the first Gulf war now they are villified. We choose to dehumanize and villify groups of people based on policy not actual facts. I say this because African Americans were victims of these same policy shifts for centuries. The gains that women have gotten have been because of the gains African Americans died and struggled for.
The Suffrage rights act in the US was not to give women the right to vote. The people in power at the time could have cared less about women voting. However what they did care about was keeping Blacks from having a majority or voice in the country. If you don't believe me research the number of black in high political positions and the demographics of the US after the civil war up until the depression. So what do they have to do but increase the voting base by allowing white women to vote.
The same with the Civil Rights movement. How much womens rights legislation was passed during or after the Civil Rights movement? The point being that a lot of the gains you think that women had was not just because they marched and protested but economic and political reasons. The civil rights movement did not get laws passed because black people were being killed or did not have equal rights. The same as the Civil war was not to stop slavery.
You can jump on bandwagons but in the end you still have to go back home and deal with the your issues and the issues there. Where we have laws but nothing has really changed.
Gypsy,
The point is that we often in the west assume that we are going to help. However we pick and chose our battles not based on wheter people actually ask for our help but based on media hot topics. Who cared about the Afghan women when the Russians were occupying the country and raping the women.How many women were in school then? Nobody cared because it was not reported in the news. Where were the women rushing to help there fellow sisters in the refugees camps in Pakistan? The Taliban were heralded as heroes because they were helping to rebuild the society in Afghanistan.
However when US policy shifted they became villified, the same as in Saudi. The Saudis were lauded during the first Gulf war now they are villified. We choose to dehumanize and villify groups of people based on policy not actual facts. I say this because African Americans were victims of these same policy shifts for centuries. The gains that women have gotten have been because of the gains African Americans died and struggled for.
The Suffrage rights act in the US was not to give women the right to vote. The people in power at the time could have cared less about women voting. However what they did care about was keeping Blacks from having a majority or voice in the country. If you don't believe me research the number of black in high political positions and the demographics of the US after the civil war up until the depression. So what do they have to do but increase the voting base by allowing white women to vote.
The same with the Civil Rights movement. How much womens rights legislation was passed during or after the Civil Rights movement? The point being that a lot of the gains you think that women had was not just because they marched and protested but economic and political reasons. The civil rights movement did not get laws passed because black people were being killed or did not have equal rights. The same as the Civil war was not to stop slavery.
You can jump on bandwagons but in the end you still have to go back home and deal with the your issues and the issues there. Where we have laws but nothing has really changed.