Abrahamic religions in particular have created so many problems for humanity.
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Humans have also created so many problems for humanity
And what guise did those problems come in?
Roman Pagans were famously awful for women's rights. And the New Atheist movement is full of sex pests on both sides of the Atlantic.
Toxic Masculinity exists independently of religious doctrine
Well yeah. Bigotry doesn't limit itself, never has, never will.
I have a feeling Women’s Rights are in a decline globally.
Womencs rights will decline if it serves the ruling class.
When women were not in workforce, our rulers were pro-contraceptives and abortion. So women would enter workforce and which would increase worker competition and decrease wages. Today when people are not having kids, and its starting to threaten the ruler's workforce, they are now against abortions and contraceptives.
Not all countries claim that they care about women rights though. Those who claim they are but practically they are not are worse
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Israel is currently on an absolutely bloodthirsty genocide bender right about now. The fact that it doesn’t give two shits about women’s rights is quite a bit further down the priority list from where it doesn’t give two shits about life in general, and is violently unaliving most everyone not like them in the region
Pretty ironic, actually.
Actually it was always a bloodthirthy genocidal state
you're telling me this ethnostate is discriminating against people??
I'm shocked! Shocked! Well, not that shocked.
unsurprising
A country known for making war crimes and genocides doesn't support human rights? Consider me as surprised.
Well when a country decides to go all in on religion...
Once they’ve killed all the Palestinians and journalists, the IDF will need someone new to shoot
You joke but this is why fascism isn’t sustainable. You always need a scapegoat and eventually your gonna run out of them as you make your population more and more uniform.
No you don't run-out:
Factionalism will always provide more "enemies" for that-Way.
"Corps Business: the 30 Management Principles of the US Marines" identified something in our nature, in 1 of the principles:
IF you just keep accumulating people, in say a village, or orgnaization, there is a point around 150-people, where factionalism sets-in.
Al Gore & Associates ( Goretex ) intentionally limits the parking-lot size, so that when it's visible that there are now enough people working at a site, that some are parking on the lawn, then they need another site.
Militaries all 'round the world have a 150-person "company" or equivalent, but not a 200-person one..
Even if some rabid ideology exterminates all "others", then it'll fractally divide-up & begin its civil-war, because factionalism is intrinsic to our unconscious-minds..
That'd be true for all except people who trained to dismantle unconscious-narcissism from their unconscious-mind's ruling-of-their-life..
& nobody I've encountered has earned that, except perhaps the Society of Believers ( the Shakers ) community it the US ( @ Sabbath Day Lake, iirc: Christians: they identify that THE primary cause of people not-staying is "too much community" ).
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Yup. Fascism's ideal end state is two blond guys arguing over who's the whiter one.
While I don't disagree with you, that isn't at all what he said.
Im the greyest and blobbyiest!
I'm sure they're efficient enough that they can start shooting new groups before they're completely finished the previous groups.
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This is unsurprising.
Israel is not known for their love of human rights.
Women’s rights are on a sharp decline in Israel.
Yeah, that'll happen in a patriarchal theocracy.
You mean fascists don't respect human lives? But muh LGBT equals! Muh only democracy in the region!
But I thought that we (U.S. people) were supposed to support them because they are a champion of democracy and human rights.
I'm calling bullshit.
What have either the US or Israel got to do with democracy or human rights nowadays, anyway?
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https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369118X.2024.2445637#abstract
Males bullying females is the "wedge" that they use to get far-right totalitarianism's basis in..
It's consistent, through different cultures, & it may be hardwired in our limbic system: bullying women is the basis for male-fascism-totalitarianism.
Counter it XOR fail the Great Filter, humankind..
Having-exterminated-ourselves is a "valid" choice, in Universe's Natural Selection's eyes..
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So all three major religions want to make the lives of women more difficult.
Who'd have thought.
I don't know that I'd include judaism on a list of "three major religions." Hinduism and buddhism have much better claims on being in the top three.
In terms of numbers then yes.
But in terms of disproportionate influence then no.
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You’re not calling Judaism a major religion are you?
Islam, Christianity, Hinduism, have billions of followers each. Judaism has a few million.
It has influence disproportionate to the number of followers. (But Hinduism and Buddhism should be ahead of it anyway, this is a very Western perspective)
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John Kerry warned that Israel can be Jewish, large, democratic, pick two. They picked Jewish and large. Now leopards are coming for faces.
I don't doubt that Israel is backsliding on women's rights, but this "Women, Peace and Security Index" has got to be bullshit.
They have a bunch of parameters that try to capture the situation of women, and I'm sure that can be useful to gauge which way the wind is blowing for a single country, but it gets kinda ridiculous when Saudi Arabia gets a much better score than Turkey, China, India, Brazil, Iran, and Mexico.
Just a reminder that women were not allowed to drive in Saudi Arabia until 2018.
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The sky is blue, water makes things wet, blood is red.
Just saying things that are obvious, don't mind me.
Well, the exact same happens in murica. If you partner with ultra religious people, this is the bullshit that'll happen.
I mean I get that's bad, and it's definitely a sign of civilization regressing, and with each step backwards, we continue to inch towards the day where we finally topple any evidence of progress that has been built, and we're lucky if we can even hold it together enough to emerge from the ashes of modern society as feral bands of mud people with some chance of perhaps one day making it back to this same point in another 2000 years or so.
But, is the "loss of women's rights" perhaps offset by the privilege of knowing that even if you lose your rights, you can still be shitty to people of a different ethnicity without concern of public judgment or accountability for your shitty behavior? And if so, isn't that what freedom is all about?
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Right wing government dislikes womens rights, more at 11.
Make a fascist society, get fascist society problems.
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