Search This Blog

Sunday, January 5, 2014

Women lib Kurdish style

An informative but brief report from the BBC about Kurdish women fighters in the PKK, the reasons for taking up arms.  Comments include a reference to the way women are usually regarded by men in the region.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-25610424

46 sec " to get away from cultural and religious restrictions in their homes";
I min: the need to take control of her own destiny le; "rather an hundred years of being humiliated";

2min 06 " the mentality of our male dominated society does look at women as human beings, they look at us as slaves and sexual objects".


No comments:

Post a Comment