Saving Face (2012), acid attacks on women in Pakistan
Meanwhile, in America, feminists are complaining about how dress codes are oppressive.
You idiots have never experienced oppression, and pray you never do, because this is what it looks like.
As a South Asian American feminist, let me remind everyone that oppression is not a competition.
Just because we fight one type of sexism doesn’t mean we don’t care about other instances of sexism that don’t affect us directly in our day to day lives.
My heart goes out to this woman and the hundreds of other victims like her. I want to educate people about these kinds of incidents. I support organizations that help women like this.
You may think that dress code issues are trivial, but they are related to a larger issue of women’s bodily autonomy, which affects women’s health and safety.
So please, let’s try to bring awareness and bring about change instead of insulting entire groups of people because they are facing issues that are less scary than the one presented.
“oppression is not a competition”
thank you so much for this wording
Every time someone, usually a guy, complains about feminists not experiencing oppression, I can’t help but see what they are really trying to say.
“This is how men could be treating you, be grateful it’s only as bad as it is now.”
And that’s actually an attribute of abusers, I believe I read somewhere. To compare you to someone being treated worse and tell you you should be grateful you have it so good. It convinces the victim they should be silent in the face of their abuse.
It’s literally an abuse tactic.
Every time someone says something like, “You […] have never experienced oppression, and pray you never do, because this is what it looks like.” What they are saying is, “shut up, we could treat you worse if we wanted to.”
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louder
I think that it’s so common to compare women to lesser privileged women and say atleast you’re not as oppressed as them as a counter argument to any feminist talk.
Like a woman in America complains about dress codes and she’s told to shut up and be happy she doesnt live in an “oppressed third world country”.
When I complain about being forced to dictate my whole schedule around the concept of “what does not make me a rape target” my mother tells me atleast I’m not oppressed like the woman who sometimes cleans for us who got married at 15.
This woman, when complaining to her mother before her marriage, was told atleast he won’t get drunk and beat you up.
It isnt a competition.
Oppression happens and one of the ways the oppressors stop us from achieving our goals is to set us against each other.
