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In reply to the discussion: I do not need... Eurocentric feminists to dictate to me what I wear or shouldn't wear. [View all]The Straight Story
(48,121 posts)"Are you actually questioning these women's agency to speak for themselves?"
No. And there are plenty here who don't like others questioning their agency to speak either. Telling a man or a woman what they should be thinking is at the core of this - tell a man he held open a door because he is sexist, tell a woman she let someone buy her dinner on a date because she is brainwashed by the patriarchy, etc - it gets old.
One could say, if they were a group here on DU, that these women don't know better because they are part of a religion that is based on oppressing women (you hear the word patriarchal a lot when it comes to Christians - and rightly so I might add). There often follows a lengthy analysis of why such women do what they do and how, if they would just listen, they could be set free to make real choices instead of the ones they are now making.
People get tired of being labeled and told who they are and what their actions mean.