On Being Blog: The Photos Used in Foreign Policy's 'Sex Issue' May Be a Test Case for Cultural Insensitivity

by Trent Gilliss, senior editor

The “Sex Issue” recently published by Foreign Policy magazine has received a fair amount of publicity this past week. And, from the responses I’ve read, it’s Mona Eltahawy’s article “Why Do They Hate Us? The War on Women in the Middle East” that’s…

I was reading about this last night, then found it on tumblr, then today in my Womens studies class a guest speaker came in to talk about it.

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steveames said: ALL women deal with these issues everyday - the broader issue of patriarchy that the article investigates. The millennia old subjugation of women. And those who are most victimized understand it less well than those who have seen more freedom -
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