Egyptian Women's Magazines Are Ironic
We're 95percent sure that the editor of Rantings of a Sandmonkey thinks we're just way too right-wing to be included within the spectrum of reasonable debate. Which is really not good for us, since our read of him is that - with a couple of anti-Israeli quirks - he is pretty much where the center ought to be. He's probably even right of center by Western standards. It's not even that he has any particular viewpoint that puts him in the center, although it works out that way - it's just that he just seems to really, really hate stupid arguments and stupid people. Especially stupid arguments made by stupid people to justify religious violence, which he calls out as such. If the Washington Post is the center-left (which it is) and they gave Hamas arch-terrorist and genocidal maniac Haniyeh a column to present 'his side' of the Jews are responsible for the world's wars debate (which they did) then not accepting obvious terrorist lies is about all you need to be center-right these days.
Anyway, we stole this picture from his blog a while back and haven't gotten around to posting it:
Please rank in order of irony. Best contribution gets a cookie, courtesy of MR. We have to make the Amazon Prime membership pay itself off by the end of the year:
* Your Guide to a Healthier You - This one's actually just kind of depressing. The current government does seem to be trying though, although obviously if the Muslim Brotherhood takes over doctors who don't think that women are inherently filthy are going to suffer the same kind of forced unemployment that they did in Afghanistan.
- Great Female Role Models Prophet Mohamed's Companions - This hyperlink goes to an article called Banish Them to Their Beds and Scourge Them: Muhammad’s Low Opinion of Women.
* Fashion Picks - There's a controversy raging in Egypt literally as you read this. The government tried to ban women from wearing face-covering veils inside the Cairo University dorms. The result was massive riots over a woman's right to cover herself in degrading garb. It's not hard to guess what direction this is going: Egypt just reversed its own ban on women wearing veils on satellite TV. They want to bring television more in line with increasing religious fundamentalism
* Red Alert: Your Feminine Queries Answered - For when Egyptian girls have that not so fresh feeling. "Red Alert" euphemisms for "Feminine Queries" is obviously meant to be intentionally ironic and funny. Right?
* Islam The Liberator of Women - Oh come on.
Anyway, we stole this picture from his blog a while back and haven't gotten around to posting it:
Please rank in order of irony. Best contribution gets a cookie, courtesy of MR. We have to make the Amazon Prime membership pay itself off by the end of the year:
* Your Guide to a Healthier You - This one's actually just kind of depressing. The current government does seem to be trying though, although obviously if the Muslim Brotherhood takes over doctors who don't think that women are inherently filthy are going to suffer the same kind of forced unemployment that they did in Afghanistan.
- Great Female Role Models Prophet Mohamed's Companions - This hyperlink goes to an article called Banish Them to Their Beds and Scourge Them: Muhammad’s Low Opinion of Women.
* Fashion Picks - There's a controversy raging in Egypt literally as you read this. The government tried to ban women from wearing face-covering veils inside the Cairo University dorms. The result was massive riots over a woman's right to cover herself in degrading garb. It's not hard to guess what direction this is going: Egypt just reversed its own ban on women wearing veils on satellite TV. They want to bring television more in line with increasing religious fundamentalism
* Red Alert: Your Feminine Queries Answered - For when Egyptian girls have that not so fresh feeling. "Red Alert" euphemisms for "Feminine Queries" is obviously meant to be intentionally ironic and funny. Right?
* Islam The Liberator of Women - Oh come on.
