Reply #42: 189 women in those photos. Out of thousands, tens of thousands on the streets.

[riderinthestorm]

I know I'm going to get majorly slammed here but I counted every single woman, and several of those photos are of the same women except from a different angle, but no mind - I counted them AGAIN - and there are still a miniscule fraction of women in these photos. And we don't even know for sure if all of these photos are from this revolution - the FB author admits this.

I believe we are not doing great service for ourselves as "truth tellers" when we distort what is obvious on the screen.

While I applaud these brave women, I am afraid of their disenfranchisement in the future. There are far too few of them in these crowds as much as we desperately want it to be different.

I see the same crowd shots as anyone else and there is a very (VERY) small percentage of women compared to the men. I've seen the posts that decry any pointing out this truth as somehow "bigoted" but there are larger issues here for the women of Egypt, and this feminist is worried.