tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36009958.post1833838664886343612..comments2023-11-09T14:15:40.111+02:00Comments on Fatima and Ahmed's Son: 'Long Way to Go, I Was Groped at Protest' for Indian Rape VictimRidwanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16758153484699728802noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36009958.post-90379464137805240722013-01-06T18:35:03.507+02:002013-01-06T18:35:03.507+02:00Thanks for that link. The insight in heir second a...Thanks for that link. The insight in heir second article almost makes up for the snafu.<br /><br />Reminds me of brevik's assault, where a british newspaper (may have been the sun) immediately released a headline about it being an attack by Islamic terrorists.Pstoniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06927310295417291978noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36009958.post-50794849197766842642013-01-06T00:48:55.210+02:002013-01-06T00:48:55.210+02:00Yeah the media picks and chooses and is in the bus...Yeah the media picks and chooses and is in the business of selling (and thereby constructing what is news worthy or even what is just news).<br /><br />More often than not it is an outright manipulation. <br /><br />A case and point was a story carried by Salon and AlterNet this week that reported on an influential Imam in Saudi who declared a fatwah that allowed anti-Assad fighters in Syria to gang rape women via mini marriages that lasted long enough to meet their sexual urges.<br /><br />Neither Salon not Alternet fact checked but you can bet they drew tons of hits - selling is the business of drawing hits.<br /><br />Alternet had to withdraw the story after it was found to be nothing but a baseless hoax.<br /><br />The withdrawal even drew hits.<br /><br />PressTv ran the story too.<br /><br />See here for more if interested:<br />http://www.alternet.org/world/exhibit-how-islamophobic-meme-can-spread-wildfire-across-internet<br /><br />Peace,<br />RidwanRidwanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16758153484699728802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36009958.post-25579602222189286372013-01-06T00:28:45.270+02:002013-01-06T00:28:45.270+02:00I was really using your post to rant on a somewhat...I was really using your post to rant on a somewhat tangential subject, being this week's sudden global media panic, even though I agreed with you and the author of this article.Pstoniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06927310295417291978noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36009958.post-83158654727655916352013-01-05T19:00:06.373+02:002013-01-05T19:00:06.373+02:00Thanks for your comment Pstonie.
I think it helps...Thanks for your comment Pstonie.<br /><br />I think it helps to separate the two points and I do see the argument you are making.<br /><br />The pressing of the state and elite groupings of power to deal with this issue (any issue) is not a panacea and, in more instances than not, it is the problem.<br /><br />That does however not make irrelevant the problem of patriarchy and related socio/political and cultural attitudes that make groping women and sexually abusing them irrelevant.<br /><br />I think the reporter in this case was pointing to the problem as pervasive and also to show that just because men take to the street does not mean they are all committed to ending abuse.<br /><br />The further point is that even among those who are committed there is the tendency to engage patriarchal or male centered agendas - in so doing women are made marginal.<br /><br />So the question is how to engage men without being silenced (an extension of abusive really). <br /> <br />It is true that other rape cases go virtually unnoticed in the mainstream media and it is even more true that women have been raped since this terrible incident.<br /><br />Recognizing this fact however still does not subsume the need to deal more openly with violence against women (everywhere).<br /><br />But where your argument carries weight is when too many folks expect the state and elites to reach forward and 'solve' the issue(s).<br /><br />For this reason there are many civil society organizations very busy with the work related to addressing the complexities of violence against women (many of these are active in Dalit movements and among poor folks and marginal communities.<br /><br />Perhaps what is needed is to focus our energies and attention there and away from the state and its agencies.<br /><br />Thanks for raising these issues.<br /><br />Peace.<br />RidwanRidwanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16758153484699728802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36009958.post-89256409864168641682013-01-05T15:32:44.649+02:002013-01-05T15:32:44.649+02:00Groped? Oh my starbucks! Quick!
Over a hundred th...Groped? Oh my starbucks! <a href="http://cdn.memegenerator.net/instances/400x/26521104.jpg" rel="nofollow">Quick!</a><br /><br />Over a hundred thousand civilians dead in Iraq alone thanks to a resource war based on spurious facts that no one talks about, but this woman got groped.<br /><br />What exactly would they propose as a solution to prevent this horrific violation, I wonder?<br /><br />Whenever a global media campaign suddenly brings an issue to the forefront of everyone's minds, everywhere, it gets me raising my eyebrow, wondering what they're trying to accomplish.<br /><br />Some examples are: Immigration, rhino poaching, school shootings, and now sexual harassment of women.<br /><br />Is it a coincidence that the obvious "solution" to all of these is more police with wider jurisdiction and more power, which translates to less rights for civilians?<br /><br /><a href="http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/biggestsecret/esp_icke22.htm" rel="nofollow">Problem -> reaction -> solution</a>Pstoniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06927310295417291978noreply@blogger.com