Totally. Unlike modern conservatives who make regular visits to North Korea to give Kim a stern talking to about the value of freedom of speech and democracy, y'know instead of complaining about a .00002% tax increase, or for that matter, that a movie changed the gender/sexuality of a character. Which they never complain about because they have their vision set to the bigger picture. Uh huh.
@famousone Not at all, I'm really just making fun of how dumb that argument is.
@garlog I get how you got the impression but my point wasn't to do whataboutism, just to mirror the argument that "feminists should go to developing countries to fight for women's rights there". The only thing either group would achieve is getting arrested or killed, so it makes as much sense for feminists to advocate for women's rights e.g. in the Middle East as it does for conservatives to advocate for freedom of speech in North Korea. As in, it makes no sense at all. And trying to portray feminists as hypocritical for not actively going to places where they would encounter potentially life threatening hostility feels like a really dishonest argument to me. Don't get me wrong, there are plenty of legitimate things to criticize modern feminism for. This just ain't one of them.
There's plenty of groups working to support women's rights in developing nations. Here are some projects you can look at;
Girls Not Brides movement in Rajasthan, northern India.
Malala’s Fund's goal is to give girls “12 years of free, safe, quality education.”
The Yes I Do project strives to prevent child abuse and forced sexual acts due to the selling of young girls into marriage.
Manal al-Sharif, an Iraqi woman, co-founded the Women to Drive movement bringing awareness to the oppression of women’s rights in Saudi Arabia and bringing back the ability for women to drive.
The Lybian Women’s Platform for Peace (LWPP) is an organization that puts pressure on the government to give opportunities to women to uphold sociopolitical places within government and society.
Weak.
@garlog I get how you got the impression but my point wasn't to do whataboutism, just to mirror the argument that "feminists should go to developing countries to fight for women's rights there". The only thing either group would achieve is getting arrested or killed, so it makes as much sense for feminists to advocate for women's rights e.g. in the Middle East as it does for conservatives to advocate for freedom of speech in North Korea. As in, it makes no sense at all. And trying to portray feminists as hypocritical for not actively going to places where they would encounter potentially life threatening hostility feels like a really dishonest argument to me. Don't get me wrong, there are plenty of legitimate things to criticize modern feminism for. This just ain't one of them.
Girls Not Brides movement in Rajasthan, northern India.
Malala’s Fund's goal is to give girls “12 years of free, safe, quality education.”
The Yes I Do project strives to prevent child abuse and forced sexual acts due to the selling of young girls into marriage.
Manal al-Sharif, an Iraqi woman, co-founded the Women to Drive movement bringing awareness to the oppression of women’s rights in Saudi Arabia and bringing back the ability for women to drive.
The Lybian Women’s Platform for Peace (LWPP) is an organization that puts pressure on the government to give opportunities to women to uphold sociopolitical places within government and society.