SaciidAyanleh wrote:Buraanbur wrote:Saciid,
Are you making sound arguments by giving Ms. Hoejabi the benefit of the doubt while painting all Somalis with one brush? You say "the point is to be controversial".. Being controversial as a means to an end is one thing, but what is their point? They're being controversial for the sake of being controversial. It's one thing to say that women's clothing should not be policed, but being a hijabi who proudly gives bjs in public achieves what exactly?

You can't be serious. You want to talk about making sound arguments and here you are arguing for the right of some undercover thot to give head in a hijab.
Again, there you go assuming. I never once said "twitter 'activists' are working towards ending these serious issues," I find all of social media to be vapid and self-serving, from celebrities to activists to authors to academics to world leaders to corporations to NGOs etc etc.
Also, these characters are extremely secular or agnostic/atheistic. To them, this is not a conversation about religion but rather a conversation about liberalism; however, the discussion cannot be entirely removed from a religious framework. So your outrage over a girl talking about fellatio in a hijab - which, in the West, isn't all that shocking - only resonates with a religion-over-everything-else crowd such as this site. Call me a kafir if you like, I am team Leftist, team Reformation.
Buraanbur wrote:
Men and women the world over are held to different standards when it comes to sex and sexuality. Is it right? No. Do I agree with it? Of course no. But this is not a Somali issue, it's a global one so why target Somalis? We can all play this little game. It's women who take their daughters to get mutilated, it's women who perform/profit off of FGM, it's women who shame other women from reporting rape, it's women who take their drug dealing or gay son to Africa to marry under-aged girls etc. Painting Somali men in a certain light while making Somali women out to be saints achieves nothing.
Ok, male dominance/female subjugation is the long-standing paradigm of human society. It is only natural, if the overwhelming majority of society subscribes to this paradigm, that women would be active actors in their own subjugation. And as the dominant gender, it is up to men to question their position and their concept of gender roles.
Buraanbur wrote: These same chicks are the type to come at a Somali female who doesn't agree with them with the same racist and sexist insults non-Somalis use against Somali females ( i.e. 'if you don't agree with me why don't you go back to Somalia and get mutilated you suugo smelling Maryan' lol).
Again, I am only defending their right to express their opinions.
Buraanbur wrote: I won't stand for these females with obvious issues, many ( I never said all) from troubled backgrounds, insulting Somali men when I was raised by one. Find me one person from that crowd who was raised in a normal, tolerant, environment and a two parent household? I know you will hard-pressed to find even one.
Again, that is no argument. "I got an anecdote, how about you?"