CNN: Female fighters: We won't stand for male dominance

"a society that revolves around women -- one where women and men are equal" -- How the hell do you get that all in the same breath? A society that revolves around women but where men and women are equal. Like a society that revolves around rabbits but where rabbits and cats are equal? So are the cats really going to be equal in such a society?

If anything such a story already points to the equality of the sexes in their society-- more than equality, I'd say. Read this part from the article:

'Rengin says on her second night in the mountains, when she was 14 years old, her unit came under attack. Her battalion commander was shot in the head. "Her head was on my knee," says Rengin, now 32. "As she was dying, she said to me: 'Our people are going to get what is rightfully theirs. I am proud to have died for this. Tell everyone we will succeed."'

Could a poor, oppressed woman be a battalion commander???

"We want a natural life, a society that revolves around women -- one where women and men are equal.."

I'm scared to research this particular item any further..I'm in a logical mood tonight, so will pass on this one.

-ax

I think she meant to say the happy-public statement of men and women being equal, but slipped and said what she truly meant: A world that revolves around, and worships, women.

Since when does equality mean society revolves around women?

I think I understand where this mentality comes from. I think women, when they see all that men have accomplished for civilization, begin to feel unfulfilled. So in order to make them feel better about this, they say to themselves "if it wasn't for women there would be no men, because women give birth to men" (of course without men, there'd be no men either, but women don't see it that way for some reason), and they begin to contemplate the miracle of giving birth. They use this as a way of tring to validate their existence, and take credit for what men have done. Then they think of themselves as goddesses for "creating life". They think of themselves as more valuable then men because they have the anatomy to give birth. Of course, in a world without men, it would only be a few months or years until everybody was dead, thereby destroying that gynosupremecist theory.

Evan AKA X-TRNL
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Of course a poor oppressed woman could be a battalion commander, it's an ALL FEMALE society.

Being a GOOD battalion commander is a different issue (and considering she got shot, she obviously wasn't the best commander ever).

Besides, we don't know how long she was there between leaving her oppression and becoming a battalion commander.

"We want a natural life, a society that revolves around women -- one where women and men are equal, a society without pressure, without inequality, where all differences between people are eliminated,"

(did anyone else think it's funny that they said "all differences between people are eliminated" then later used the phrase "final solution")

And while i think they're pro female supremacy stance, and terrorist violence is obviously wrong, I don't think it's wrong to say women in Iraq are oppressed.

I knew a Kurdish woman when I was at university. She was quite a flirt. And very smart and tough.

I think this whole Amazon female army fairy tale is what happens when your country has no discos and bans dancing.

Let them slaughter themselves if they wish.

What a silly culture.

And, the women with guns are quite pretty!

I agree with the other comments. How can you have a society that revolves around women... yet have men and women as equals?

Isn't that by nature contridictory?

And here you see feminism in a nutshell!

I scour the back pages periodically*. Sometimes trolls post late in a thread for some reason..I suspect so they can make a wild post masquerading as an MRA, then "quote" themselves to others off-board to prove how we're all drunk wife-beaters. If I go back to check and find one of those, I can at least post a reasonable-sounding response so that if anyone they attempt to fool should actually come to the site and check the post in question, they will see my response and realize what upstanding citizens we all are here.

*Be informed however, that most guys are too lazy to scroll past page 1, or 2 at most.

-ax