Slashdot Mirror
Iran Is Arresting Models Who Pose Without Headscarves On Instagram (bbc.com)
An anonymous reader writes: The Tehran cybercrimes court said the country has arrested eight people working for online modeling agencies deemed to be "un-Islamic." The women models were arrested for starring in photos on Instagram and elsewhere without wearing their headscarves, which has been required in public since 1979. A total of 170 people have been identified by investigators for being involved in online modeling, including 59 photographers and make-up artists, 58 models and 51 fashion salon managers and designers. The court's prosecutor Javad Babaei announced the the threats on TV, claiming modeling agencies accounted for about 20 percent of posts on Instagram from Iran and that they had been "making and spreading immoral and un-Islamic culture and promiscuity." He added, "We carried out this plan in 2013 with Facebook, and now Instagram is the focus."
But in iran this idea is codified in the legal system, its not a fringe idea expressed by a weirdo on an internet forum. That's the difference.
Cops in the US will arrest women for going topless in public. What's the difference?
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
As mentioned, this *is* a law. But laws can be changed.
Women can be, and have been, elected to national political office in Iran. In fact, 84 of 435 (19.3%) of their national representatives are women. That isn't that great, admittedly, but at least it's--
Oh wait, those are the US house of reps numbers. Our senate has 20 women out of 100 senators, roughly the same ratio.
Meanwhile, Iranian women MPs are 21 of 290, or 7%. But before you argue how backwards that is compared to the US, reflect that it is roughly the representation the US had in the early 1990s.
So there's hope for a more representational government, both for Iran and the US.
Good comparison. Obviously the sad puppies or whatever are directly comparable to groups that stone women for things that aren't even crimes here. Everyone who doesn't agree with you is Hitler, right?
>Liberals will call every Republican sexist, no matter fucking what they do
That's easy to fix: support paid family leave, childcare assistance, guaranteed maternity leave, promise to leave abortion rights untouched and fight AGAINST state governments that try to restrict it, stick to the small government thing enough to get the fuck out of women's wombs entirely in fact - leave that between her and her doctor, and stop fighting against letting women have ready access to birth control, make ending rape culture a goal - and that includes ensuring every rapist gets the punishment he deserves and actually BAN victim blaming as an attempted defense in court.
Republicans have been consistently on the wrong side of every one of these issues and every now and then they go even further and pull a Todd Aiken on top of it. Those things are what is described as the war on women. You will NEVER escape that accusation unless you change on ALL those things. You cannot stop being accused of a war on women unless you stop FIGHTING one.
Unicode killed the ASCII-art *