Atavistic Autist
Intersectional autistic supremacy
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What's most ironic about this Western obsession with feminism is that if you looked at certain key statistics about life in Iran, then you could not distinguish it from a feminist country!
Namely, the majority of Iranian university students are female and Iran has a "below replacement" fertility rate on par with any developed country. This indicates that Iranian women are encouraged to be careerists for the same reasons as any urbanized, industrial economy, and hardly forced to have families and stay indoors like presumably is still the case across the border in ultra-rural Afghanistan.
In fact, the situation seems to be more stark than just that:
View: https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/vhj4x9/iran_has_the_highest_female_to_male_ratio_in/
Iranian women are most likely of anywhere to pursue STEM careers
This reminds me of the paradoxical fact that gender norms in terms of occupational roles are more entrenched in egalitarian countries than traditional ones! That is, women in overtly feminist countries are more likely to work in occupations such as nursing and teaching than in physical labor or STEM. And conversely, women in overtly traditional countries are actually more likely to work in physical labor or STEM!
This is attributed to the fact that women in egalitarian (and invariably affluent) countries are free to pursue their intrinsically feminine proclivities (i.e., working in care-taker positions, like the aforementioned nursing and teaching). Whereas in traditional countries (which are invariably poorer), women are forced to work hard careers which will net them the most money. Life is less comfortable, and so women take on masculine roles by necessity. You could say that "hard times make tough women"
It is a stunning example of the contradictions between overt and covert forms. Iran is overtly traditional in terms of gender, but covertly a feminist success story. Western programs to "get women into STEM" have miserably failed where Iran succeeds!
Except the West certainly does succeed at overt feminism (muh short skirts)
It is funny to read the women responding to the Twitter thread, talking about their "liberty." The same liberty to make their own decisions that would motivate women to signal their fertility and femininity by wearing a short skirt also causes them to eschew some of the high status masculine gender roles which modern feminism would want them to adopt in the workplace.
Another topic this touches on is the fact that some level of oppression is actually good for you. The Jews would not be the financial success story they are today if not for being oppressed throughout history. Oppression can represent the resistance that causes muscles to grow during weight lifting. If the weight/oppression is not so unbearable as to cause severe injury, then you will heal and grow stronger in the end.
If Iranian women were "liberated," half of them would just migrate to the West to get fucked by Chad while studying liberal arts in university, while the other half would work unproductive fake jobs at home that merely simulate childcare of the children they never had.
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