http://www.jewishsf.com/content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/7035/edition_id/132/format/html/displaystory.html
http://www.jewishsf.com/content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/4457/edition_id/81/format/html/displaystory.html
Women protesting about being forced to sit at the back of busses, and at severe dress codes in supermarkets.
While these stories aren't quite today's news, they do illustrate that women are badly treated wherever religious zealots are in power.
Very good, Mike.
Let's all of us, as the international community, support the fight of Israeli women for gender equality.
What do you suggest we all can do to achieve that? (unless you propose to let Israeli women handle their problem themselves).
Personally, I could send a letter to the Israeli Ambassador here asking
more information about the measures (if any) being taken to improve
the situation of Israeli women.
Originally posted by RedmikeWhy that's just horrible.🙄
http://www.jewishsf.com/content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/7035/edition_id/132/format/html/displaystory.html
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Women protesting about being forced to sit at the back of busses, and at severe dress codes in supermarkets.
While these ...[text shortened]... news, they do illustrate that women are badly treated wherever religious zealots are in power.
It was actually on the world service.
Seemingly a law has been passed that Israeli women have to sit at the back of the bus.
The law was passed because, unlike usual, fanatical Orthodox Jews now have to go out and work (shock, horror...pretty soon they're gonna get drafted too). Sharing the bus with the plebs (read: women) was too much for them to take. So a law was passed forcing women to the back of the bus.
The piece on the BBC world service about it was hilarious. That woman wasn't pleased at all. No sirree, Old Rosa Parks (was that her name) had nothin' on this girl!
Respect for woman. Yet another way the proud and ancient middle east is barbaric compared to the west.
Heck, its been forever since the English have forced peasants to give up their brides for a night. And the Phrench don't even make their women shave.
Red hits the nail on the head about zelots running society.
Originally posted by Merk*giggle*
Respect for woman. Yet another way the proud and ancient middle east is barbaric compared to the west.
Heck, its been forever since the English have forced peasants to give up their brides for a night. And the Phrench don't even make their women shave.
Red hits the nail on the head about zelots running society.
Originally posted by Redmike"Ornan Yekutieli, head of the secularist Meretz faction in the Jerusalem City Council and the only male demonstrator, said, "It is unacceptable for the largest supermarket chain in Israel to bar segments of the public from a store in the middle of a busy industrial zone. It's like being in Tehran."
While these stories aren't quite today's news, they do illustrate that women are badly treated wherever religious zealots are in power.
Tehran, eh? Tut, tut.