Hatunen wrote:
> On Sun, 23 Mar 2008 14:50:48 -0700,
> "EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" wrote:
>
>>
>> John Kulp wrote:
>>> On Sat, 22 Mar 2008 20:00:52 -0700, Hatunen wrote:
>>>> I'm having trouble seeing the connection between Latino and
>>>> Muslim oppression of women and the Icelandic Althing. Could you
>>>> please clarify?
>>> Yes, I am having the same trouble and I saw no connection between when
>>> the US gave women the vote when discussing Muslim oppression. You
>>> could analyze every country in the world and make one statement after
>>> another on when women got the vote. And you could analyze one Muslim
>>> country after another and find a number today that don't give them the
>>> vote. What has one got to do with the other? Especially, since
>>> Turkey has been, by law I believe, a secular country.
>> Well, to make my point clearer to the intellectually impaired: My point
>> was that Turkey, far from "oppressing" its women, granted them political
>> equality even before the U.S. granted it to theirs.
>
> The paper grant of political equality does not necessarily mean
> political equality is a fact, nor does it mean anything regarding
> social equality.
>
> Are you sure Turkish women actaully have total equality and
> freedom? African-Americans were granted political equality and
> freedom in the constitution in 1868, but it didn't even begin to
> happen for about a century.
I've no idea WHAT the status of Turkish women is NOW - I only remember
being surprised at how much better it was than that of American women at
the time suffrage was granted. |