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Monday, May 19, 2008
Misogyny in the Saudi Media: what MEMRI will not report. Of course, you don't expect an Israeli (or Saudi) propaganda outfit to give a hoot about women and gender. But read this Sadatite columnist, Anis Mansur, analyzes "the problem" with women. He complains that women have lost "their feminity." I mean, Saudi media are a festival of sectarian agitation, religious intolerance, US administration's propaganda, praise for Saudi polygamous royalty, and misogyny. This guy (who is admired in Israel because of his support of Sadat's visit to Israel despite his long history of anti-Semitic fulminations) calls women "rough, gruff, and aggressive."