Wow, here’s a news flash, it turns out that the National Organization for Women is responsible for the mis-treatment of women in Iran. Why the hell not, feminists are to blame for everything, aren’t they?
According to Chip Hanlon’s logic (okay, that might not be the right word), when a woman gets murdered on the streets of Iran, by the forces of a government that regularly abuses women, NOW is the culprit because it has not made this a ‘top priority’.
Well here’s a newsflash Mr. Hanlon–the N in NOW stands for National, that means that NOW primarily focuses on issues in this country. Secondly, women are murdered every day in this country and way too frequently by our military forces in other countries and NOW is VERY vocal on those issues.
And what are you doing about Neda Agha Soltan’s murder Mr. Hanlon? Are you too busy bashing feminists to realize that the murder of women is, at the end of the day, a man’s issue because men are the ones who need to stop killing women. And oh by the way, if you did even a modicum of research you would know that NOW is not the only feminist organization and that many other feminist organizations have in fact been very vocal about the impact of what is happening in Iran on women’s lives.
Be that as it may, whether or not NOW issued a statement really isn’t the point because feminists are not responsible for taking up the fight against every damned bad thing that happens on the planet, the argument that they are is misogyny at its worst.
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