Tuesday
April 11, 2000
Feminazi
This recent letter
by Ms. Banfsheh Zand is just another view by some typically anti-this
group or that group. And I am tirelessly perturbed by people like her who
try desperately to make themselves feel self-righteous and justified in
"being disgusted" by the freely-expressed opinions of others
whom she so indignantly condemns and hypersensitively criticizes with such
prejudicial generalization!
She uses the old cliche of "I'm mortified by these painfully broad
and sweeping generalizations by,...bla bla..." It is in fact, people
like her who are incapable of having a dialogue with others and seek to
stifle real discussion by imposing dogmatic-liberalized views of the world
on others.
And you better watch out if you disagree with her high-handed opinions
for ye shall be ostracized and terrorized by name-calling and underhanded
"generalizations"! The attempt to say that "there is something
inherently negative" in a certain culture, is in and of it self inherently
negative, prejudicial and childish! This simply is the wannabe-campus feminazi-political
correctness which had imposed it's profundity on the U.S educational system
since the 60's!
I propose a question to her and the likes of her and her antiquated-ideologues
-- just because you are not in sync with the hopes, dreams, and desires
of men, whether they be Iranian or otherwise -- who are you to say that
their views are deviant simply because you disagree with them? I have always
assumed that freedom of expression within freedom of the press as an inalienable
right enjoyed by all.
Does that mean that a person's expressive ideas deserve to be questioned
and attacked as "intrinsically deviant" or that something is
wrong with a whole segment of a society (herein "Iranian Men")
because you are frustrated by their overwhelming disgust with women who
may be symbolized by the volition of the likes of you? Is that fair?I beg
to differ.
Cyrus Raafat
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