PZ’s a liar and a coward – but then, we always knew that. Anne Marie Waters has a fine post on the subject of feminists silence on Islamic misogyny.
Let me tell you from vast experience, if you ask your average politically active feminist whether she condemns domestic violence, forced marriage, genital mutilation or any of the rest of it, she will insist that she does – and then she will do precisely zero.
Even worse than that is the demonization of those of us who do. I have personally sat through many meetings of “feminists” who spend endless hours agonizing about Page 3, and I have myself been reprimanded by those very same “feminists” for raising the issue of FGM. “We don’t want to alienate the Somali community” I’ve been told. The maiming of Somali girls doesn’t seem to feature on their radar. By “Somali community” who they actually mean are Somali patriarchs who (it seems) should be able to rule over their women-folk and mutilate them at will. Anything else would be culturally insensitive and stir up division (that’s a big favourite – it never seems to occur to them that FGM itself may be stirring up division).
Anyone who has been even remotely involved in these issues knows it – I’ve seen it over and over. Yell loudly about page 3 – shut up about honor killings is the name of the game. Far better people than I – Phyllis Chesler and Ayaan Hirsi Ali have noted the same.
Myers – because, again, he’s a liar and a coward – is trying to spin this as an attempt to ignore non-Islamic misogyny. Keep it up kid and I’ll start telling the local Mosque that you cartooned Mahomet…
