While there are religious extremists in Iran, their level of influence on Iranian culture is not anywhere near what you’re saying. You’re just repeating western propaganda.
They did have a controversial new dress code law that was supposed to go into effect at the end of last year, but it was blocked for being to extreme and vague.
However, my state just forced a brain dead woman to incubate a baby against the family’s will. So I’m inclined to agree with those saying the religious extremists exercise greater control in the US than Iran, and by your standards that means they should bomb us. Because I guess you think killing people is equal to freeing them.
head_socj@midwest.social 3 weeks ago
Yeah good thing the US respects women’s autonomy and isn’t being strangled by a fundamentalist religious movement that wants to force women to be nothing more than incubators, maids, and fuck toys…😒
MehBlah@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Most of us do respect womens autonomy. I know I taught my daughter that. The loud mouth weaklings don’t. They hate that women don’t have to spread on command.
head_socj@midwest.social 3 weeks ago
I couldnt give a single flying fuck if “most of you” are such good people that you’d willingly live in a militant feminist matriarchy; the fact is our enemy is not Iran or it’s people and you’re here patting yourself on the ass for having the literal minimum level of decency expected of a father
Sl00k@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
Both of you are right but there’s definitely levels to how much worse it is in Iran
Bloomcole@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Iran has more FEMALE engineers than the US and less of it’s population in jail.
Iran’s healthcare has beenrated excellent by UNICEF.
I could continue, but facts can’t win from the propaganda machine online.
So I’m just gonna laugh make fun of it.
Sl00k@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
The freedom of both women and the general public is not solely dictated by healthcare and the ability to attain higher education.
Does a free society cut off country wide access to the external internet?
Iran is actively lying to its citizens saying they destroyed the US base in Qatar and there was minimal damage to Iranian nuclear facilities. Both outright lies. This is not a free golden society.
How many women are persecuted from laws around the head dressing and other clothing related issues.
Boiling womens rights down to they can become an engineer and have good healthcare is laughably pathetic and on the verge of being a conservative talking point I would hear on fox news in justification for stripping away more rights. Pinning the struggle of US women against Iranian women is an incredibly pathetic mindset that only fosters negativity.
Inkstainthebat@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
Wait fr?
Amonverite@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
or Alabama
head_socj@midwest.social 3 weeks ago
Different doesn’t necessarily equate to worse. The IR does oppress women, without a doubt; but American society exploits young women’s sexuality for financial gain, psychologically manipulates them into prohibitive gender norms that are impossible to achieve without vast amounts of wealth and privilege, and then tells them the most important thing they can aspire to be is mother to a man’s offspring.
In short, you, your society, and your government are not as different-and clearly not any better-from any other in the world.
Sl00k@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
A lot of this comment hinges on your belief that US women are not intelligent enough to to understand that exploitation and manipulation. Knowledge has progressed a lot in the last 20 years. Look at the under 18 and 20-24 age groups here
There are much better examples of the subjugation of women in the US right now than to pin the societal oppression on US’ fostering of an anti intellectual society.
Amonverite@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
evangelical-christian-nationalists