Thursday, October 23, 2008

To American foreign correspondents: please stop referring in all your articles relating to women in the Middle East or Africa to "male-chauvinist" societies, or to the "patriarchal societies of Africa". What do you mean by such designations? Who are you comparing them to? To the US? Are you implying that American society is not male-chauvinist or patriarchal? Am I living in a gender-equal society without even noticing? In fact, when you refer to American society, you should add: in the patriarchal and white-supremacist....