I'm so sick of this crap. The history of Iran is far more complex than a photo of a woman 'showing her legs'. (I'm Iranian, I lived there until late '78, I went back often after the war, once staying for almost a yr, I wrote MSc dissertation on causes of the revolution & outcome)
I'm so sick of this crap. The history of Iran is far more complex than a photo of a woman 'showing her legs'. (I'm Iranian, I lived there until late '78, I went back often after the war, once staying for almost a yr, I wrote MSc dissertation on causes of the revolution & outcome)
@SaraAfshar Is your dissertation publicly available Sara Jaan?
@SaraAfshar Itās quite telling that you, as an Iranian, choose to be completely silent about the hat the IR did over the past 48 hours yet your entire feed is about Gaza. Do you have nothing to say about what the tyrants in your native country have done?
@SaraAfshar @yashar @SaraAfshar Youāre missing the point. Before the Islamic Revolutionā¦people in Iran were happy. They had many freedoms. This isnāt about just the legs in that photo.
Do you mean to tell me that thousands of years of history can't be summarized in a tweet thread? And? You don't yell "look at me!" without something to say. You're the reason the Ayatollahs still rule your country. You're one of those, "Well if the US and Israel hate the regime, then I must love it!" people.
@SaraAfshar Yep. I canāt help feeling that all the old photos of bikinis and mini skirts and parties just show how wealthy the upper classes used to be, ie able to travel and be international. Nothing wrong with that of course. Lucky them. But itās hardly representative of the whole country.
@SaraAfshar Yeah, whatās a couple of beheading over a fallen hijab, right?
@SaraAfshar Judging by some of the responses to that ladyās thread it seems youāre far from alone in feeling that sheās off the mark. The āshowing off her legsā is pretty irksome. Women are more than legs. Educate us. Always happy to learn and broaden my understanding of different cultures.
@SaraAfshar Westerners have a tendency to talk about SWANA's pre-Islamist past in very superficial way and without zooming out beyond the youth demographic and urban hubs of those times.