Topic: Men and women are not equal
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Tue 11/25/14 04:15 AM
Says Erdogan,


"Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan set off a new controversy on Monday, declaring that women are not equal to men and accusing feminists of not understanding the special status that Islam attributes to mothers."

http://news.yahoo.com/erdogan-women-not-equal-men-141047433.html;_ylt=AwrBEiGZcnRUsCoAVlDQtDMD


Sojourning_Soul's photo
Tue 11/25/14 05:30 AM
Edited by Sojourning_Soul on Tue 11/25/14 05:34 AM

Thank goodness women aren't equal! If they were as stupid as most men we'd be in real trouble!..... and "man boobs"......just don't do it for me!


metalwing's photo
Tue 11/25/14 05:33 AM
I am surprised that feminists are even allowed to exist in Turkey, which is somewhat less backward than most of it's neighbors. What the President uses as the "reason" is quite telling.

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Tue 11/25/14 05:40 AM
In my country, a politician would NEVER say that out loud....:tongue:

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Tue 11/25/14 06:52 AM
Really? So, Islam only allows beating of their women UNTIL they give birth and then they can start up again once the children have left the home?


I

did

not

know

that.

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Tue 11/25/14 08:56 AM
.. I'm kind of glad, we are not equal..
.. I don't like my women... to be very masculine.. let alone have a hairy chest...lol..
.. I think men and women balance each other out... but I don't believe they are equal to one another..
... any more than I think a fox is equal to a wolf... they're the same but not the same.....

mrld_ii's photo
Tue 11/25/14 10:06 AM

.. I'm kind of glad, we are not equal..
.. I don't like my women... to be very masculine.. let alone have a hairy chest...lol..
.. I think men and women balance each other out... but I don't believe they are equal to one another..
... any more than I think a fox is equal to a wolf... they're the same but not the same.....


You're assuming "equal" means "same as"; in this context, "equal" means "equivalent to".

A fox and wolf are not the same; they are completely different species.



Newsflash: women and men ARE the same species, "whether we like it or not".




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Tue 11/25/14 12:12 PM
This guy Erdogan argues that women are not equal to men because they can have babies, but the only thing logical by that statement is that women are superior to men because they can make babies. I don't understand, I thought men were supposed to be more logical and reasonable and women were supposed to be more emotional.