Iranians use Technology Bolsters Women’s Movement
Al Aabiya / Rochelle Terman
08-Apr-2009 (21 comments)

And in Iran, anonymity is power.Women’s movement activists are becoming increasingly clever with their usage of such technology. For example, they will send a Bluetooth message to any Tehran metro passengers, often carry a subject line labelling the message as pornographic, a creative advertising tool to entice acceptance of the message. While passengers think they are about to view an image of a naked woman or sex act, they will often be surprised to find themselves viewing the latest news on the Iranian women’s movement.

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anonymous fish

excuse me?

by anonymous fish on

stop telling people what to do and mind your own beeswax!
you are clueless!

and you are who?  the thought police?  this IS my business and you're hardly in a postion to tell ME to do anything?  you're a little nobody swimming in and out behind anonominity with no ballx to speak under your registered name.  bug off little fishie before you get caught.  :-)

what are YOU doing to advance public awareness of women's rights in iran?  NADA.  i thank fred again for ignoring the ignorant and doing what he thinks is important.  you haven't got the vaguest idea what fred's views are.  you're simply following the pack because someone told you to. 

get some guts girl and find out for yourself.  fred is viruently anti-IRI, as should you be. you and others want to insist that means he's anti-iranian, go right ahead.  i personally haven't seen him say anything about bombing iran but if he did, he's in a pretty big group of IRANIANS who say the say thing.  you just get off on the fact that he's jewish.  i feel sad for you. 

forget fred.  why aren't YOU doing something for human rights in iran?


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hey fish

by anonymous shark (not verified) on

you're not the only one who thanked Fred for posting this BUT you're the only gullible one who didn't acknowledge that his pro-women stance is a sham.

stop telling people what to do and mind your own beeswax!
you are clueless!


anonymous fish

ladies

by anonymous fish on

be careful of using the word empathic.  it does NOT necessarily mean compassionate.  you could also be empathic to someone who uses violence to express him/herself.

Mi.  you suggest that women do not abuse their children.  you are very very mistaken.  it's a fact that abuse by mothers often goes undetected BECAUSE they are mothers and no one wants to think mothers can abuse their children.  abuse is not always physical either.  woman can be just as destructive or more so to a child emotionally.

merhnaz.  i'm sorry to hear you following the pack and deny fred the appreciation he deserves for posting this blog.  if it were anyone else, you'd be standing and cheering.  instead you and others want to attribute his concern for women's rights to "anti-iri" nature.

what hypocrites.


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Dear Mineum-71

by Mehrnaz (not verified) on

I agree, women in general are more empathic; I know from personal experience! However, I was making another point ...

ps - Women too abuse their children, but it tends to be more of an emotional abuse and less detectable. But I leave it at that. I salute the brave women (and men) of our country. Technology is one thing, it also takes a mind to use it well and creatively and from my experience, women in Iran are making huge strides for their rights in ways unseen to Fred and the like. They are rewriting many of the discriminatory laws in their daily practices and in helping and supporting and educating each other ... I am proud to be an Iranian woman.

Have a good Easter break.


MiNeum71

Dear "anonymous fish", Dear "Hajminator", Dear "Mehrnaz",

by MiNeum71 on

I am full of respect for your views, but I can only analyse the realities, and they say, that girls and women are much more empathetic, which is very important for creating a peaceful environement (it´s self-explanatory that I´m talking about majorities and not every single man or woman).

For example also women can abuse children, they have the more powerful position to do that than men have. But they don´t do it, and this speaks for them in their favour.

Besides: Many researchs show that girls who were rejected testosterone suddenly behaved manly. So sex MAKES a difference.

 


anonymous fish

Haj

by anonymous fish on

very interesting!  makes sense.  i think.  :-)

i was being a wee bit facetious.  i really don't think any one gender is superior to the other.  i absolutely believe that each one has it's individual superior capabilities!!!!  maybe i should rephrase that to individual strengths instead of superiority.  still doesn't make one better than the other.  i think the whole and original intention of MAN and WOMAN was to create a balance... two equal halves creating one whole.  but somehow the human in us just help but screw it up...:-)


Hajminator

anonymous fish

by Hajminator on

When I was younger my grand pa told that in the past, people believed that when a guy passes between two women, his chance of loosing his memory will increase.

Your belief that females are the superior gender may give an explanation of why. If you consider that living beings are made of energy so force. And that all attraction fields can be explained by a general attraction theory. Then considering the case that when you put a magnet between two powerful electro-magnetic fields, the poor thing looses its ability of attraction...You reach the conclusion of our elders.

Anyway, my comment was between yours and Mehrnaz one, ... me who had already a poor memory...


anonymous fish

Mi

by anonymous fish on

mehrnaz unfortunately is correct.  i think women have every bit the same capacity for viciousness that men do. i do think we have an innate sense of caring and protectiveness, more so than men.  it's the maternal instinct and the instinct of protecting our young.  but can you imagine what YOU would do if someone hurt your child.  his father might shoot the guy but i would take him apart limb by limb... slowing and as painfully as possible.

i do however agree that we are the superior gender.  :-)


Hajminator

MiNeum71

by Hajminator on

Mea culpa for my part.

I don't however agree that the notion of sex has something to do with all the misery that the world knows. I would say that we, human beings, are imperfect intelligent animals.


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Mineum71, don't underestimate our ability

by Mehrnaz (not verified) on

for criminality! Those abuses you count as manly are so because men have been historically in more powerful positions than women. Give us a chance, we can be equally vile criminals! The lesson: Don't generalise! Don't denigrate! Don't idealise!

You can curse as usual - Iranian woman, remember ;) if you wish. But I am now off for a few days so I won't read them :)

PS - Soooooo Iranian of you to want to vote!! Watch it, you are getting corrupted (typical Iranian!) ;0


MiNeum71

It Simply Is True

by MiNeum71 on

The next revolution can only be done by women. This sounds very provocative, but women are the better human beings. Evidence? Human abuse, children abuse, animal abuse, criminal abuse are all manly.


capt_ayhab

I Alwaya say

by capt_ayhab on

I always say that our next and REAL revolution is going to be done by Iranian women, mark my word.

mard ha too zard az ab dar omadan ! 

-YT


KB

Proud of Iranian women

by KB on

Fred, every time I see one of your posts you are ranting and raving about the Islamists and Anti-Semite leftists(which is a contradiction in terms from a leftist point of view). Here however, you are being both hypocritical and contradictory.

I assume you want a Saudi or Kuwait or Egypt (with their women’s rights) type of regime in Iran because they are not Islamist and pro-western/Israeli. A democratic Iran would still want to have nuclear power, would still want to be a major regional player etc etc..

Iran will only change for the better through gradual reclamation of the rights of its citizens and groups (such as the one in this article) rather than another revolution or an attack/regime change effort by an foreign entity.


anonymous fish

fred

by anonymous fish on

i am so sorry your wonderful contribution has to be nullified by such pathetic attempts to change the subject the what sounds like the typical pro-IRI BULLSHIT.

it doesn't make one bit of difference what your views are regarding any other issue. the fact that you support the women's movement in iran and have posted this great article is the only issue. 

and why people think they have the right to speak in your name and determine your intentions is beyond me.  especially in a blog that has NOTHING to do with ANYTHING ELSE but the woman's movement.

the bottom line is that this was great and i thank you.


Fred

Dr. Strangelove

by Fred on

Now now aren’t we being patently disingenuous?

 On the one hand you want to empower the repressive Islamist republic and issue its rule life insurance in the form of nuke, and on the other hand about grassroots democratization you say “This is what people like me have been saying for years”.

Silly me for thinking and believing in historical precedents that repressive regimes only allow reforms when they are weakened. There are no instances of a repressive regime allowing meaningful reforms when they are or at least feel that they are strong.

The messianic Islamist republic that you so strongly want to be empowered by possessing illegal dual purpose full cycle nuke does not even qualify as a run-of-the-mill repressive regime. Your messianic chaps are after glory in the other world and do say and been acting according to that sort of wacked-out game plan.

 So, Doc, please spare me your talking the talk but not only not walking the walk, rather,  trying to erect an impenetrable barrier in front of those incredibly brave ones inside Iran who at the cost of life and limb are trying to do the democratization walk. 


Hajminator

‫آقا فرد

Hajminator


Va-salam is pure arabic. That didn't hurt your wrists to tape it?


Jooneh Netanyaboo you're pretty good in Farsi.


IRANdokht

but ...

by IRANdokht on

those are all liberal movements and Fred ain't no liberal!

I am sure he sees the labor, students and women's movements anywhere else (or in Iran at any other time) as a total chaos created by the leftists. Fred's only interest in these movements is the anti-IRI nature of them and if a foreign power would just blast IRI out he'd be even happier.

IRANdokht


Mammad

Now

by Mammad on

Fred should and can realize that only through building such movements - womwen, labor, students - Iran can move toward a democratic society, without any outside interference. This is what people like me have been saying for years.

Mammad


khaleh mosheh

Wow

by khaleh mosheh on

Makes you truly proud of all the offsprings of the motherland.


Fred

سر مـن از نالهء مـن دور نیـست

Fred


 

 

هـر کـسی ا ز ظـن خـود شـد یار من
از درون مـن نـجـسـت اسـرار مــن
سر مـن از نالهء مـن دور نیـست
لـیـک چـشم و گــوش را آن نـور نیـسـت
در نیــابــد  حـال  پـخـــتـه  هــیـچ  خــام
پــس ســـخــن کــوتـا بـایــــد وا لـســــلام


IRANdokht

you know what's ironic

by IRANdokht on

When it comes to the world and international relations you have an extreme right-winged approach just like AhmadiNejad and Bush and Netanyahu. When it comes to Iranian women all of a sudden you are against the extreme right (only in Iran of course).

I wish you were always an advocate of Human rights and Women's rights, not only when it suits your real agenda. 

By the way this is a very nice article and thanks for posting it. I guess it's true when they say "adoo shavad sababeh kheyr..."

IRANdokht