National Organization for Women refuses to take a position on British teacher controversy in Sudan

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... a spokeswoman for the National Organization for Women said the situation is definitely on the radar, and N.O.W. is not ignoring it.

But she added that the U.S.-based organization is not putting out a statement or taking a position.

Radio personality Tammy Bruce, former president of the Los Angles chapter of the National Organization for Women and past member of their board of directors, criticized the organization for not taking a stand.

“We have a duty to make a difference for women around the world,” Bruce told FOX News. “The supposed feminist establishment is refusing to take a position in this regard because they have no sensibility of what is right anymore. They're afraid of offending people. They are bound by political correctness.”

“The American feminist movement has not taken one stand to support the women of Iraq, the women of Afghanistan, the women of Iran,” she said. “It is the United States Marines who have been doing the feminist work by liberating women and children around the world.”

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,313426,00.html

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“The American feminist movement has not taken one stand to support the women of Iraq, the women of Afghanistan, the women of Iran,” she said. “It is the United States Marines who have been doing the feminist work by liberating women and children around the world.”

ouch that's gotta hurt!

[one...two...tree 2,762]

I think NOW has enough issues on the domestic side of politics to keep them busy.

[Fandango 1,439]

I think NOW has enough issues on the domestic side of politics to keep them busy.

ahhh, so it's ok then...I getcha

[Ban Hammer 13,364]

I think NOW has enough issues on the domestic side of politics to keep them busy.

kinda like they didn't say chit when a man in power coerced a female underling for oral sex in the nation's highest office?

[mawilson 2,133]

Maybe because this case has nothing to do with her being a woman?

Wouldn't a man have been jailed as well for the same "offense" of calling the teddy bear Mohammed?

[one...two...tree 2,762]

I think NOW has enough issues on the domestic side of politics to keep them busy.

kinda like they didn't say chit when a man in power coerced a female underling for oral sex in the nation's highest office?

Those fakers...I'll bet they fake their orgasms.

[Dr. A ♥ O 203]

Their organization doesn't support basic human rights for women?

I don't understand.

I accept and acknowledge state soverignty but flogging for the name of a teddy bear that is also used to name hundreds and thousands of people is a violation of human rights to me.

Anyways to each their own. ((shrugs))

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Oh oh oh.... feminists. When I used to teach in that forsaken Women Studies dept, many times I heard cries of rage and outrage about X or Y situation affecting women elsewhere... not in the province I was at, but elsewhere....

Problem was -and I think still is- that some strands of Western feminism (not ALL of it, before I get flamed and yes, I have read feminist theory for the past 10 years) still has colonial tints, as in: come, we'll make you just like us... A liberated, anorexic, media-plagued, underpaid, but VERRRY emancipated woman. After listening to that craaaapppppy rethoric for a while, I switched departments (and theoretical allegiances).

Nothing to do with the topic but hey! I'm allowed a rant every now and then. Why???? Cuz I'm a woman, that's why

[Ban Hammer 13,364]

Oh oh oh.... feminists. When I used to teach in that forsaken Women Studies dept, many times I heard cries of rage and outrage about X or Y situation affecting women elsewhere... not in the province I was at, but elsewhere....

Problem was -and I think still is- that some strands of Western feminism (not ALL of it, before I get flamed and yes, I have read feminist theory for the past 10 years) still has colonial tints, as in: come, we'll make you just like us... A liberated, anorexic, media-plagued, underpaid, but VERRRY emancipated woman. After listening to that craaaapppppy rethoric for a while, I switched departments (and theoretical allegiances).

Nothing to do with the topic but hey! I'm allowed a rant every now and then. Why???? Cuz I'm a woman, that's why

when is the bra burning?

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Oh oh oh.... feminists. When I used to teach in that forsaken Women Studies dept, many times I heard cries of rage and outrage about X or Y situation affecting women elsewhere... not in the province I was at, but elsewhere....

Problem was -and I think still is- that some strands of Western feminism (not ALL of it, before I get flamed and yes, I have read feminist theory for the past 10 years) still has colonial tints, as in: come, we'll make you just like us... A liberated, anorexic, media-plagued, underpaid, but VERRRY emancipated woman. After listening to that craaaapppppy rethoric for a while, I switched departments (and theoretical allegiances).

Nothing to do with the topic but hey! I'm allowed a rant every now and then. Why???? Cuz I'm a woman, that's why

Amen, comrade sister.

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... liberated, anorexic, media-plagued, underpaid, but VERRRY emancipated woman...

reowwwwww

[almaty 19]

Oh oh oh.... feminists. When I used to teach in that forsaken Women Studies dept, many times I heard cries of rage and outrage about X or Y situation affecting women elsewhere... not in the province I was at, but elsewhere....

Problem was -and I think still is- that some strands of Western feminism (not ALL of it, before I get flamed and yes, I have read feminist theory for the past 10 years) still has colonial tints, as in: come, we'll make you just like us... A liberated, anorexic, media-plagued, underpaid, but VERRRY emancipated woman. After listening to that craaaapppppy rethoric for a while, I switched departments (and theoretical allegiances).

Nothing to do with the topic but hey! I'm allowed a rant every now and then. Why???? Cuz I'm a woman, that's why

Amen, comrade sister.