Okay, I have bitten my tongue long enough on this post that is being reblogged all over my dash.
For all of you patting her on the back for her “wow so feminist” speeches, you remind me of the people hailing Hilary Clinton or Condoleezza Rice as feminist icons.
The Jordanian regime is one of the most repressive in the region. It’s a “Mukhabarat” state, basically a secret police state. I’d like to see her talking about the women which disappear after criticizing the regime and king? No? Shock.
Never mind the fact that she’s married to an autocrat King, but hey, he’s pro US, that means we get to focus on how cool they are as a couple on Oprah instead! Yay! They are young and speak fluent English!
Oh and what about those pesky Palestinian women?! You know, the ones the Jordanian regime helps strangle every single day with Israel’s help? Shh, we don’t mention those. Just talk about Arab women and hope nobody realizes the hypocrisy.
And then she starts to talk about poverty..you know, cos it’s bad and stuff. Let’s just pretend that she didn’t have a lavish party in 2011 for her 40th birthday that cost millions of dollars. Millions. At the same time, her people were already in the streets from poverty demanding better living conditions. Did I mention that the villages near the area she had her party in didn’t have clean running water? Haha..silly me, must have slipped my mind.
I swear, as soon as some politician shows a modicum of charisma on this website everyone rushes to quote and reblog them, it’s the same deal with Obama. “It’s true his drones kill children every day, but LAL LOOK HE MAKES FUNNY FACES.”
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