Tuesday, October 30, 2007
The funniest thing to emerge from politics in many years was a poll that found that 37% of respondents thought a Halloween costume of Senator Hillary Clinton would be the scariest politics-themed costume. Her closest competitor was Rudy Giuliani who ran at about 17%. Ironically, or perhaps not so, was the fact that almost half of the men polled chose Clinton yet so did a third of women, and conservative Republicans did not seem to factor as much as Democrats and Independents in choosing for Clinton the role of "scariest costume." It just goes to show...we're not the only people who hate her.
CBS is such a joke. Their latest drama-comedy show, "Aliens in America," follows the fictional adventures of a middle-school boy and the Pakistani exchange student his mother imports to give him a friend. In one of the latest installments, the Pakistani insults the prettiest girl in the school by saying, "You make me uncomfortable; your only value comes from your sexuality." Clearly we are supposed to cheer the simple Islamic belief that there is value in women that comes from another place than their sexuality. This is placed in contrast to the cheap, superificial western (read: American) way. The problem with this is that it simply isn't true. The Pendragon agrees that women throwing themselves at every man is not an ideal way for them to live, but in Islam, we find a belief that women truly have no value besides their sexuality. Just because they're all covered up doesn't mean they're looking beneath the surface. After all, what is a Muslim woman for? She's for marrying (sometimes one of many) and bearing children, many, many children. I don't want to disillusion any readers who think the stork just makes a lot of stops in Chaostan, but that requires women to be merely sexual instruments of men. Who really is superficial here? The answer: both worldviews are flat-out wrong.
CBS is such a joke. Their latest drama-comedy show, "Aliens in America," follows the fictional adventures of a middle-school boy and the Pakistani exchange student his mother imports to give him a friend. In one of the latest installments, the Pakistani insults the prettiest girl in the school by saying, "You make me uncomfortable; your only value comes from your sexuality." Clearly we are supposed to cheer the simple Islamic belief that there is value in women that comes from another place than their sexuality. This is placed in contrast to the cheap, superificial western (read: American) way. The problem with this is that it simply isn't true. The Pendragon agrees that women throwing themselves at every man is not an ideal way for them to live, but in Islam, we find a belief that women truly have no value besides their sexuality. Just because they're all covered up doesn't mean they're looking beneath the surface. After all, what is a Muslim woman for? She's for marrying (sometimes one of many) and bearing children, many, many children. I don't want to disillusion any readers who think the stork just makes a lot of stops in Chaostan, but that requires women to be merely sexual instruments of men. Who really is superficial here? The answer: both worldviews are flat-out wrong.
// posted by The Pendragon @ 9:39 AM 
