Saturday, December 01, 2007



The word ‘women’ is now replaced on Iranian state television by ‘family’, AKI reports, Jelveh Javaheri another active member of the feminist website Change for Equality, an initiative to collect a million signatures to end legislations that discriminate against women was arrested earlier today in Tehran, Iran, and Abelina Galustian, the Iranian painter of Armenian ethnicity rightfully says: "I still couldn't understand why they were all [still focusing on acting like virgins.] My reaction to this hypocrisy was communicated with the Veiled Series. It was a way of telling women to stop interrogating a woman's worth by the intactness of her hymen, as it only leads to daughters performing virginity and sons who only accept virgins (or at least they think they're getting virgins) for wives." Meanwhile let us not forget it has been one week since a nineteen-year-old gang-raped victim from Saudi Arabia was ordered the penalty of 200 lashes because she was caught sitting in a car with a man who was not her relative.