I've been wanting to post about it because it's been, like, nearly consuming my thoughts for the past couple of days... a documentary I saw a couple of weeks ago in Vermont called The Beauty Academy of Kabul. I didn't want to write about it because it was amazing... because it wasn't. And I didn't want to write about it because it was naive and
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Our government will not hesitate to cut funding to any group these days, domestic or otherwise, that doesn't abide by a conservative agenda. How many years has it been, after all, since the US stopped funding abortions in some of the most impoverished, overpopulated nations on earth? We're telling Africa that the best way to stop AIDS is... abstinence. Talk about trying to
sell western values to another culture in a completely misguided way.
I have more to say but I have a dinner date. We'll chat.
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Re: AIDS and Africa.... I agree wholeheartedly.
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Laura did a good job, but I don't know that I agree with everything she said. But she did a really good job explaining.
Anyway. I'm about to call you, so. :) Heads up.
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Not quite bright enough, my foot.
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And it's not always western education that affects those changes within those people residing in those cultures to try and and break down dangerous and (to us) terrifying rituals, like genital mutilation. I once read a memoir where a women's parents did not want her to have genital mutilation because they had seen a close family member die from it and did not want the same for their daughters.
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i think that this is where feminism gets off with a bad name. i had the same veiling conversation with conservative christian baptists on the fourth of july. they challenged my (anthropological) opinion that religion is cultural and practices should be understand and evaluated within the context. i took them through the short history of the veil and showed how the so called tools of oppression can really be tools of empowerment.
i really liked your dicotomy of high heels and bombs. i thought visually, that was quite strong. for anyone, transexual to male to female to gay to disabled to homeless to park ave princess, revolution is personal and contextual.
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