Comments on: Fashion Week, Tehran! http://shoeblogs.com/2007/01/19/fahsion-week-tehran/ Manolo Loves the Shoes! Mon, 07 Jul 2008 02:53:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: La Maltese http://shoeblogs.com/2007/01/19/fahsion-week-tehran/#comment-372614 La Maltese Sat, 27 Jan 2007 15:34:33 +0000 http://shoeblogs.com/wordpress/2007/01/19/fahsion-week-tehran/#comment-372614 Dearest Cat and Anongirl, femminists of the kind you are spking, before or after 9/11, what they did, do and are doing is to bring to the attention of the world that muslim women are being mistreated. Thats absolutely great! What is appalling is how these women continue wearing their burkas and chardors, they continue being mistreated by the man (and men) who is meant to love them!! They have no identity! Being dressed as LA hookers under their burka means absolutely nothing! Their consolation is that between girls they can "party" and enjoy themselves, and of course be fashionable! isnt it a sorry sight to see these rich arab woman, without an inch of flesh showing, with bags and bags (shopping bags) of LV, Chanel, and the like, when they cannot show it off (they can in reality with their girlfriends and their husband) and their husbands ... loving and caring (they pay for what is in the bags and bags do they not?) .... wearing pur comfort shorts and tshirt! i guess its acceptable to them! At the end of the day they dont need femminists to stand up for their rights because they dont stand up for their own rights they are more than happy to be treated as doormats!! Dearest Cat and Anongirl,

femminists of the kind you are spking, before or after 9/11, what they did, do and are doing is to bring to the attention of the world that muslim women are being mistreated. Thats absolutely great!

What is appalling is how these women continue wearing their burkas and chardors, they continue being mistreated by the man (and men) who is meant to love them!! They have no identity! Being dressed as LA hookers under their burka means absolutely nothing! Their consolation is that between girls they can “party” and enjoy themselves, and of course be fashionable!

isnt it a sorry sight to see these rich arab woman, without an inch of flesh showing, with bags and bags (shopping bags) of LV, Chanel, and the like, when they cannot show it off (they can in reality with their girlfriends and their husband) and their husbands … loving and caring (they pay for what is in the bags and bags do they not?) …. wearing pur comfort shorts and tshirt! i guess its acceptable to them!

At the end of the day they dont need femminists to stand up for their rights because they dont stand up for their own rights they are more than happy to be treated as doormats!!

]]> By: Cat http://shoeblogs.com/2007/01/19/fahsion-week-tehran/#comment-372215 Cat Fri, 26 Jan 2007 23:37:16 +0000 http://shoeblogs.com/wordpress/2007/01/19/fahsion-week-tehran/#comment-372215 Call bullshit to your heart's content, anonygirl, but it won't change the fact that I learned about the Taliban several years prior to 9/11 thanks solely to feminist organizations who were protesting their treatment of Afghan women and calling for action. During the 2000 Presidential campaign, while watching one of the debates and lamenting the fact that neither candidate had uttered a peep about Afghanistan or the Taliban, I was greeted with blank stares and "The whatiban?" from my peers. Furthermore, I cannot help but notice that you accuse feminists of having a blanket perception of Christians, yet meanwhile, you are making a blanket judgment of feminists and feminism. Oh, the irony. Call bullshit to your heart’s content, anonygirl, but it won’t change the fact that I learned about the Taliban several years prior to 9/11 thanks solely to feminist organizations who were protesting their treatment of Afghan women and calling for action. During the 2000 Presidential campaign, while watching one of the debates and lamenting the fact that neither candidate had uttered a peep about Afghanistan or the Taliban, I was greeted with blank stares and “The whatiban?” from my peers.

Furthermore, I cannot help but notice that you accuse feminists of having a blanket perception of Christians, yet meanwhile, you are making a blanket judgment of feminists and feminism. Oh, the irony.

]]> By: Anonygirl http://shoeblogs.com/2007/01/19/fahsion-week-tehran/#comment-371821 Anonygirl Thu, 25 Jan 2007 21:44:37 +0000 http://shoeblogs.com/wordpress/2007/01/19/fahsion-week-tehran/#comment-371821 <i>Before 9/11, feminist groups were pretty much the *only* people railing against the Taliban and its mistreatment of Afghan women.</i> I call B*llshit. Feminists work up much more fervor any day of the week against Bush and Christians (who they perceive as uniformly sexist and pro-life) than they ever have against the murdering, raping, and mutilating cultures of the Middle East. Before 9/11, feminist groups were pretty much the *only* people railing against the Taliban and its mistreatment of Afghan women.

I call B*llshit. Feminists work up much more fervor any day of the week against Bush and Christians (who they perceive as uniformly sexist and pro-life) than they ever have against the murdering, raping, and mutilating cultures of the Middle East.

]]> By: Cat http://shoeblogs.com/2007/01/19/fahsion-week-tehran/#comment-371744 Cat Thu, 25 Jan 2007 16:23:34 +0000 http://shoeblogs.com/wordpress/2007/01/19/fahsion-week-tehran/#comment-371744 Amy, it was through feminist organizations that I first learned of such horrors as "honor" killings, FGM, and the Taliban. Before 9/11, feminist groups were pretty much the *only* people railing against the Taliban and its mistreatment of Afghan women. Amy, it was through feminist organizations that I first learned of such horrors as “honor” killings, FGM, and the Taliban. Before 9/11, feminist groups were pretty much the *only* people railing against the Taliban and its mistreatment of Afghan women.

]]> By: amy http://shoeblogs.com/2007/01/19/fahsion-week-tehran/#comment-371535 amy Thu, 25 Jan 2007 02:49:15 +0000 http://shoeblogs.com/wordpress/2007/01/19/fahsion-week-tehran/#comment-371535 Anyone defending this vestige of the 7th century when women were chattel needs their head examined and is essentially a hypocrite. It's amazing that we are this far past 9/11 and not a peep from feminists, not in an y meaningful public manner, protesting the mistreatment of Muslim women. Anyone defending this vestige of the 7th century when women were chattel needs their head examined and is essentially a hypocrite.

It’s amazing that we are this far past 9/11 and not a peep from feminists, not in an y meaningful public manner, protesting the mistreatment of Muslim women.

]]> By: Sara http://shoeblogs.com/2007/01/19/fahsion-week-tehran/#comment-371191 Sara Tue, 23 Jan 2007 22:50:42 +0000 http://shoeblogs.com/wordpress/2007/01/19/fahsion-week-tehran/#comment-371191 I believe the Manolo is right to ridicule this. It's the same as what Charlie Chaplin and Mel Brooks have done with Nazis. If the Iranian religious police are going to be ridiculous, they should be ridiculed! I believe the Manolo is right to ridicule this. It’s the same as what Charlie Chaplin and Mel Brooks have done with Nazis. If the Iranian religious police are going to be ridiculous, they should be ridiculed!

]]> By: lizwhiz http://shoeblogs.com/2007/01/19/fahsion-week-tehran/#comment-371141 lizwhiz Tue, 23 Jan 2007 18:22:11 +0000 http://shoeblogs.com/wordpress/2007/01/19/fahsion-week-tehran/#comment-371141 Being as I have very little of merit to say on this subject, I will just say that the Madeline reference made me smile very widely. Prayers for the poor women who have to live in an oppressive society, and prayers of thanks that I live so freely that I can comment on this blog and say whatever I think without fear, while clad comfortably in sweatpants and slipper socks. Being as I have very little of merit to say on this subject, I will just say that the Madeline reference made me smile very widely.

Prayers for the poor women who have to live in an oppressive society, and prayers of thanks that I live so freely that I can comment on this blog and say whatever I think without fear, while clad comfortably in sweatpants and slipper socks.

]]> By: GETprada http://shoeblogs.com/2007/01/19/fahsion-week-tehran/#comment-371113 GETprada Tue, 23 Jan 2007 15:48:52 +0000 http://shoeblogs.com/wordpress/2007/01/19/fahsion-week-tehran/#comment-371113 I love this blog..heheh... at least I know they have patterns too. Try looking up for Malaysian Islam women fashion too. Might be interesting. I love this blog..heheh… at least I know they have patterns too. Try looking up for Malaysian Islam women fashion too. Might be interesting.

]]> By: sapote http://shoeblogs.com/2007/01/19/fahsion-week-tehran/#comment-371087 sapote Tue, 23 Jan 2007 13:41:30 +0000 http://shoeblogs.com/wordpress/2007/01/19/fahsion-week-tehran/#comment-371087 Of course I disagree with anyone being forced to wear the veil or the chador for no better reason than their gender, and Fashion Week Tehran looks pretty oppressive to me. (though I noticed the Manolo has not posted a picture of the one outfit that was prettier than funeral-home curtains.) I do however think Muslim women's fashion for people who have freely chosen to cover up, in countries where they have other options, is very interesting. <a href="http://modestclothes.com/islamic/dept/trendy-islamic-clothing.html" rel="nofollow">Here</a> are some interesting Western-adapted Muslima clothes, and there're some traditional Afghani embroidered dresses (I can't find the link right now) that I think are rather pretty, in a only-worn-in-the-US-by-hippies sort of way. Of course I disagree with anyone being forced to wear the veil or the chador for no better reason than their gender, and Fashion Week Tehran looks pretty oppressive to me. (though I noticed the Manolo has not posted a picture of the one outfit that was prettier than funeral-home curtains.)

I do however think Muslim women’s fashion for people who have freely chosen to cover up, in countries where they have other options, is very interesting. Here are some interesting Western-adapted Muslima clothes, and there’re some traditional Afghani embroidered dresses (I can’t find the link right now) that I think are rather pretty, in a only-worn-in-the-US-by-hippies sort of way.

]]> By: Cat http://shoeblogs.com/2007/01/19/fahsion-week-tehran/#comment-370948 Cat Tue, 23 Jan 2007 04:35:13 +0000 http://shoeblogs.com/wordpress/2007/01/19/fahsion-week-tehran/#comment-370948 la petite chou chou, the "fashion show" itself is forced. It is staged by the religious police in an attempt to "[promote] female modesty and [counter] the influence of western clothing," as per the article the Manolo linked to in his previous "Fashion Week Tehran" post: http://www.guardian.co.uk/iran/story/0,,1820248,00.html?gusrc=rss You are correct; it is not about fashion, but rather, oppression. la petite chou chou, the “fashion show” itself is forced. It is staged by the religious police in an attempt to “[promote] female modesty and [counter] the influence of western clothing,” as per the article the Manolo linked to in his previous “Fashion Week Tehran” post:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/iran/story/0,,1820248,00.html?gusrc=rss

You are correct; it is not about fashion, but rather, oppression.

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