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vijayjohn wrote:I would definitely consider 2013 recent.
vijayjohn wrote:But apparently, it only matters if it happens outside our country.
Yasna wrote:vijayjohn wrote:But apparently, it only matters if it happens outside our country.
What gave you that idea?
vijayjohn wrote:Isn't it more concerning if something you don't approve of happens in your own country than if it happens elsewhere? Especially when people from your country have, ironically, been criticizing such things happening in other countries for decades.
Yasna wrote:vijayjohn wrote:Isn't it more concerning if something you don't approve of happens in your own country than if it happens elsewhere? Especially when people from your country have, ironically, been criticizing such things happening in other countries for decades.
Yes, and how do you get from that to "apparently it only matters if it happens outside our country"?
vijayjohn wrote:You posted a video about walking alone as a woman in Cairo and said it was uncomfortable to watch without saying anything about walking alone as a woman anywhere in the US. I take away from that that you think sexism in Cairo is somehow more important than sexism in your own country.
Yasna wrote:Ah, so basically a у вас негров линчуют.
For the record, I don't ascribe more importance to the sexism in Cairo, but I do think it is of a somewhat different kind and thus interesting. Note for example that the Cairo video is filmed in a single take.
vijayjohn wrote:You posted a video about walking alone as a woman in Cairo and said it was uncomfortable to watch without saying anything about walking alone as a woman anywhere in the US. I take away from that that you think sexism in Cairo is somehow more important than sexism in your own country.
Okay, I take that back: You're missing the forest and the trees. Even in the video you posted, one of the people who made it explicitly says "sexism is a global issue." That's the whole point. It's not specifically Cairo. Cairo is just an example.
Yasna wrote:Wait. You are so utterly clueless about sexism that you think it doesn't take on varying forms depending on the cultural context where it is manifested?
Yasna wrote:For the record, I don't ascribe more importance to the sexism in Cairo, but I do think it is of a somewhat different kind and thus interesting. Note for example that the Cairo video is filmed in a single take.
Aurinĭa wrote:Of course sexism as a whole can take different forms depending on the context, cultural or any other kind. But these videos are about street harassment. How is that any different? Being stared at, catcalling, and the like happen everywhere. Videos like that can and have been filmed all over the world.
md0 wrote:Yasna likes to pretend we have never seen his posts before and so we have to play Socrates every time to make him reveal what we actually thinks. The thing is, we have, we can read between the lines, and it's either "feminism is not needed in the west" or "feminists in the west have allied themselves with the antifeminists of the east" in this case.
Yasna wrote:Aurinĭa wrote:Of course sexism as a whole can take different forms depending on the context, cultural or any other kind. But these videos are about street harassment. How is that any different? Being stared at, catcalling, and the like happen everywhere. Videos like that can and have been filmed all over the world.
I don't know what it's like in Belgium, but the intensity of the Cairo video was unlike anything I've ever witnessed around here. (I've taken notice of how men around here react to attractive women in these situations).
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