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Why patriarchy rules

September 8th, 2008Kawthar (Sudan)

Despite what those accursed feminazis might preach, diluting male control and (God forbid!) allowing women a say in their own lives would destroy the very fabric of our divinely-guided societies. The consequences would be:

  • Free licenses for sex
  • Corruption levels will hit the skies
  • Sexually transmitted diseases will reign
  • The institution of the family will be destroyed
  • Men will lose their sense of honour
  • Women will be pushed out to work for food
  • Children will turn into knife-wielding, drug-taking yobs
  • And most disgustingly, an ego-centric lustful chase of romance and sexual pleasures will replace our selfless and noble value system.

    • While the above might read like a lame attempt at satire on my end, I’m afraid to say that it’s genuine. The comment was made in response to a Reuters article that “blames mums” for child mortality in Afghanistan (for an analysis of the article, check out Muslimah Media Watch).

    Usually, such a comment would leave me seething for hours (he ought to have added ‘women will be turned into red-eyed, profanity spouting murderesses’ to the list), but all I could muster after reading it was a chuckle. Suffice to say that our societies are already plagued with the aforementioned “ills”.

    I’d like to say that this and similar diatribes should simply be dismissed and that we should focus our effort on proving them wrong, but the sad truth is that many devoutly believe this nonsense.

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    4 Responses to “Why patriarchy rules”

    1. #1 Simon Columbus - September 8th, 2008 at 1:55 pm

      Ah, history repeating… Seems like I know these sentences from my books. He must have stolen them ;-)

    2. #2 Fatemeh - September 8th, 2008 at 3:46 pm

      I want to go to the feminazi conference so bad!

    3. #3 Eva (Israel) - September 10th, 2008 at 2:57 pm

      OMG!
      “Women will be pushed out to work for food”..
      Nothing worse than that!
      Has anyone seen something like that somewhere already?
      This must truly be the end of the world!

      But besides that: “Men will lose their sense of honour” – did they ever have a sense of honor..??

      Wondering… :P

    4. #4 eric/canada - September 18th, 2008 at 6:53 pm

      Wow… y’know, now that you mention it, I see all that stuff when I go to Wal-Mart…
      All you damn kids with your knife wielding and your free sex liscences…I had to work HARD for my sex liscence when I was your age…
      (Sorry, I had to go down to Syracuse for the weekend, and you can buy huge bottles of Scotch there for next to nothing)

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