{"id":73672,"date":"2012-08-30T22:13:59","date_gmt":"2012-08-31T06:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brownpundits.com\/?p=8071"},"modified":"2012-08-30T22:13:59","modified_gmt":"2012-08-31T06:13:59","slug":"enough-with-the-double-standard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2012\/08\/30\/enough-with-the-double-standard\/","title":{"rendered":"Enough with the double standard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6dKQR2m-Xfs\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Most of the conventionally liberal readers of this weblog would probably term me anti-feminist. I believe that there are sex differences, and that these are important in the way we arrange policy and our personal lives. <b>But I&#8217;m really pissed off by the double-standards which have been baked-into-the-cake of what we term &#8220;patriarchy.&#8221;<\/b> Yes, I believe men and women are different, but both are equal in their freedoms, humans with individual will, and both have independent agency and role in life. <\/p>\n<p>This is the kind of crap I really hate. <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.answers.com\/Q\/Are_Aysel_and_Arash_Muslims\">Are Aysel and Arash Muslims?<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Aysel totally not, she is not muslim because she doesnt follow islamic lifestyle and ddresses up in kaffir way, <b>but Arash could be muslim, still not sure<\/b><\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>What exactly makes Arash any less kaffir than Aysel? Simple: <b>Muslim women must comport themselves in a manner which befits their role as <i>totems<\/i> for Islamic culture.<\/b> Women, children, racial minorities, <b>we are not fucking totems and tokens.<\/b> People differ, and I do not mean to collapse or minimize real human differences. That&#8217;s why I&#8217;m a conservative. But infantilization and turning individuals purely into instrumental symbols for a civilization has got to stop. <b>Enough!<\/b><\/p>\n<p>You better have a fucking goat-beard and have a boy-lover if you&#8217;re going to go around calling people kaffir.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"a2a_dd a2a_target addtoany_share_save\" href=\"http:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share_save#url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.brownpundits.com%2F2012%2F08%2F31%2Fenough-with-the-double-standard%2F&amp;title=Enough%20with%20the%20double%20standard\" id=\"wpa2a_20\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brownpundits.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of the conventionally liberal readers of this weblog would probably term me anti-feminist. I believe that there are sex differences, and that these are important in the way we arrange policy and our personal lives. But I&#8217;m really pissed &#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brownpundits.com\/2012\/08\/31\/enough-with-the-double-standard\/\">Continue reading <span>&#8594;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-feminism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73672"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74882,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73672\/revisions\/74882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}