Definition of privilege

[LDAHL]

Frankly, sending an armed agent of the state to tell someone they need to strip off clothing to show more skin smells of sexual assault....

Or TSA SOP.

[Ultralight]

Societies say what clothes people can and cannot wear all the time, even here in the US.

[bae]

Or TSA SOP.

Yes - I believe I related the tale here some years ago of how the nice TSA man lovingly groped my young daughter at the Chicago terminal.

Scum.

[bae]

Societies say what clothes people can and cannot wear all the time, even here in the US.

[iris lilies]

OMG! Why is it ALWAYS the women who must bear the brunt of oppressive religion, government, and 'codes' of conduct.
You want to talk privilege? How about the privilege of religion and governments/societies who think it's OK to force women to whatever doctrine they hold dear....

I would say that male circumcision is an example of oppressive religious and societal control.

[catherine]

Yes - I believe I related the tale here some years ago of how the nice TSA man lovingly groped my young daughter at the Chicago terminal.

Scum.

Don't they usually pair gender? When I've been groped, it's always been by females.

[bae]

I would say that male circumcision is an example of oppressive religious and societal control.

Ritual sexual mutilation. I'm still miffed by what my parents, without my consent, did.

[Ultralight]

OMG! Why is it ALWAYS the women who must bear the brunt of oppressive religion, government, and 'codes' of conduct. You want to talk privilege? How about the privilege of religion and governments/societies who think it's OK to force women to whatever doctrine they hold dear. In this country, some (see, I didn't name names) push this constantly with denying women's body autonomy, the most basic right EVERYONE should have.

What about the gay men who have been told by Xianity and Islam that being gay is wrong? Are they not oppressed men?

[Ultralight]

I did not say it was right.

[Gardenarian]

Women in the fundamentalist Islam world do not choose wear burkas, they are forced to. ALL choices and rights are taken from them at birth.

This is a religion that enshrines the oppression of women. I don't care if it's part of their history or tradition or culture; it's despicable.

Just because fundamental Muslims have been raping, killing, and persecuting women for hundreds of years doesn't make it right.

I am sickened by feminists who claim this is another instance of men telling women what to wear. That is a cheap shot; it's a lot more complicated than that.

The burka is just the most obvious symbol of Islam's subjugation of women.

If they treated another race the way they treat women, we would call it slavery, and the entire world would condemn them.