How Feminism has Harmed Women - Belgium Lecture | Mohammed Hijab (2022-11-01) #

0:00:04 thank you
0:00:09 it's a pleasure to be here and I've been
0:00:11 exploring the city today we've been
0:00:14 exploring Belgium
0:00:18 I haven't had a waffle yet believe it or
0:00:20 not I've actually not had a waffle yet
0:00:25 but maybe we'll have some later on
0:00:28 today we're going to be talking about a
0:00:30 topic which is very important to many
0:00:31 people
0:00:32 especially here in Western Europe which
0:00:36 is the issue of feminism now obviously
0:00:38 we're going to bring in the Islamic
0:00:41 perspective
0:00:42 but before I do so what I wanted to do
0:00:45 was be very straightforward with you and
0:00:48 outline the main Crux the main thrust of
0:00:53 my argument
0:00:55 my argument is simple it is that
0:00:58 feminism especially second wave
0:01:01 understandings of feminism
0:01:04 have failed in being able to provide for
0:01:07 women
0:01:08 well-being
0:01:10 in other words and in fact this is a
0:01:12 secondary proposition
0:01:14 I will say that
0:01:16 feministic prescriptions or
0:01:19 recommendations this is my postulation
0:01:21 here
0:01:22 have
0:01:24 put women in a position of deteriorated
0:01:27 well-being
0:01:29 this is this is why I'm saying
0:01:32 so the question is first of all what is
0:01:35 feminism obviously someone will say well
0:01:37 to look and see what feminism is it is
0:01:40 equality politically socially and
0:01:42 economically almost everyone agrees that
0:01:45 there should be equality at a general
0:01:47 level I don't think anyone disagrees
0:01:49 with this point
0:01:50 but if you really want to know what
0:01:52 feminism is especially when we talk
0:01:54 about second wave conceptions one must
0:01:57 refer back
0:01:58 to the 1960s through the movement to the
0:02:01 literature to the writings
0:02:03 for example one must read better fredan
0:02:07 who wrote the Feminine Mystique
0:02:09 1963
0:02:12 and she famously said that a woman in a
0:02:15 house
0:02:16 is living in a comfortable concentration
0:02:20 camp
0:02:21 one must read Simone de bevoir which I'm
0:02:24 sure many of you will be able to access
0:02:27 in French even
0:02:29 but who has written the second sex
0:02:32 a very important book
0:02:35 and see what kind of arguments that she
0:02:37 was making
0:02:39 where she made arguments explicitly made
0:02:42 arguments against
0:02:44 conceptions traditionalist conceptions
0:02:47 of the family of motherhood
0:02:49 Etc
0:02:50 one must go back to Jermaine Greer
0:02:54 once again lived at that time
0:02:57 and wrote the female eunuch
0:03:01 one must go back to these people and if
0:03:04 one does do that one will realize
0:03:08 that there was
0:03:10 a very intentional attack
0:03:14 on the institution of the family
0:03:17 now you'll say this is not substantiated
0:03:20 I will say something to you which maybe
0:03:23 many of you didn't know
0:03:27 question for Dan
0:03:29 who wrote the Feminine Mystique in 1963
0:03:33 some 58 years ago
0:03:36 Betty Friedan herself wrote a book
0:03:38 called the second Sage she wrote this
0:03:41 book in 1981.
0:03:44 and in this book she openly admits she
0:03:48 says we must look Within
0:03:51 relating to how we have actually
0:03:55 reduced conceptions of the family
0:03:58 and when commenting on her famous line
0:04:02 that
0:04:03 the house is a comfortable Concentration
0:04:05 Camp She refers to her own statement
0:04:09 20 years later as an extreme statement
0:04:13 so by the admission of the authors
0:04:17 themselves
0:04:19 there has been a failure
0:04:22 one must also think of something else
0:04:25 Betsy Friedan who wrote This Book who
0:04:28 told women that they must prioritize
0:04:31 their careers first this is what they
0:04:34 must do
0:04:37 she
0:04:39 actually ran some surveys
0:04:42 she was known for for doing surveys and
0:04:44 doing studies
0:04:47 and to her dismay she found in 1970s in
0:04:52 the 1970s
0:04:53 she found that women
0:04:56 after
0:04:58 the legislative or Law changes that took
0:05:01 place in America and by the way in all
0:05:03 of Western Europe as well
0:05:05 that they were suffering more not less
0:05:08 and that was actually her conclusion
0:05:12 that was her conclusion
0:05:15 and then she says herself this is Betty
0:05:17 Friedan but Muhammad hijab it's not the
0:05:20 Muslim fundamentalist the hate preacher
0:05:23 the extremist
0:05:24 whoever this one that one no it is Betty
0:05:28 Friedan herself
0:05:29 she states
0:05:31 that's
0:05:33 one-third of women she states one third
0:05:36 of women that she surveyed
0:05:38 they suffered from mental breakdown
0:05:41 and this was way more than the service
0:05:43 that she ran in the 1950s and 60s
0:05:47 so according to her things were getting
0:05:49 worse not better
0:05:52 according to the the feminist the
0:05:55 founding mother of feminist secondary
0:05:57 feminism
0:05:58 things are getting worse
0:06:02 worse not better
0:06:04 okay one will still be skeptical and say
0:06:07 this is maybe not enough of an evidence
0:06:09 for me
0:06:11 Jermaine Greer
0:06:13 who wrote a book called the female
0:06:15 eunuch
0:06:19 a eunuch is somebody it's a man
0:06:22 who has his private part castrated
0:06:26 okay she wrote this book she was making
0:06:29 satirical she was trying to make fun of
0:06:31 a situation talking about the woman
0:06:33 basically
0:06:35 and she in 1981 or 1983 I forget exactly
0:06:40 when she wrote a book called the whole
0:06:43 woman
0:06:44 and she said something very interesting
0:06:46 that I will never forget
0:06:48 because she was advising women not to
0:06:50 have children that's how bad it was she
0:06:53 was saying women don't have children
0:06:55 that's what she said
0:06:57 and the reason why she said that is
0:06:59 because just like Simone de Beauvoir
0:07:01 in her book The Second Sex if you read
0:07:04 the chapter on biology she believed that
0:07:07 it's an oppressive relationship the
0:07:09 moment you become a mother you're
0:07:10 oppressed
0:07:12 you're oppressed by by virtue of being a
0:07:15 mother
0:07:16 she makes this very clear
0:07:18 Jermaine Greer and her book the whole
0:07:21 woman should reply she
0:07:23 said
0:07:26 and I quote this is word for word she
0:07:28 goes I mourn for my unborn children
0:07:33 now what does this mean when you mourn
0:07:36 you go to the graveyard you're crying
0:07:39 yeah
0:07:41 all of these things now how can you
0:07:43 mourn for your unborn children
0:07:45 she says I mourn for my unborn children
0:07:48 meaning what
0:07:49 that she regrets not having children
0:07:52 can you imagine a woman
0:07:55 Who convinced tens of millions of women
0:08:00 not to have children not to prioritize
0:08:03 motherhood not to to engage in career
0:08:06 activity instead and
0:08:10 instead and as a substitute to being a
0:08:14 mother and a say a housewife call it
0:08:17 what you want to call it
0:08:18 she herself
0:08:21 20 years later that same woman she says
0:08:25 I regret the situation I mourn
0:08:29 I mourn this is strong language I mourn
0:08:34 I mourn for my unborn children I wish I
0:08:38 had children
0:08:40 this is unfair
0:08:42 that you convince tens of millions of
0:08:44 women
0:08:45 yes you convince tens of millions of
0:08:48 women that motherhood is not important
0:08:50 that having a career is and then she
0:08:52 says I mourn from my unborn children
0:08:56 now the same woman Jermaine Greer she
0:08:59 says now we have to look can you imagine
0:09:00 she says this
0:09:01 all I'm telling you to do is look at the
0:09:04 confessions of the feminists
0:09:06 forget about me what I say look at the
0:09:09 confessions of the feminists she says
0:09:11 now we have to look
0:09:13 at motherhood being a full-time career
0:09:16 option this is exactly what she states
0:09:19 Jermaine gray herself
0:09:22 who most of you maybe you'll know her
0:09:25 name a little bit because you know
0:09:27 she was she had a boyfriend called satra
0:09:29 you know John Paul Saturday you may know
0:09:32 this guy existentialists
0:09:34 you know and he's French speaking and
0:09:37 stuff so you must you know who he is
0:09:38 maybe put your hands off you know if
0:09:40 you've heard any of these names before
0:09:41 okay we're all on the same page
0:09:44 maybe you don't want to anyways this is
0:09:47 what she says listen to this yeah
0:09:50 she is very categorical she's seen as
0:09:53 one of the top
0:09:54 feminists in the 60s yeah
0:09:57 I was reading her autobiography because
0:09:59 I was interested to see what the kind of
0:10:01 woman this is
0:10:02 I was very very shocked and surprised I
0:10:05 was
0:10:05 dismayed disillusioned
0:10:09 she she was uh she had an apartment I
0:10:12 think it was either in Paris or New York
0:10:13 I forget where the apartment was
0:10:15 and she was in love with this Saturday
0:10:17 yeah she was in love with him
0:10:19 he is by the way he is the one who told
0:10:21 her to write a book on feminism
0:10:24 she writes this in her autobiography he
0:10:26 gave me the idea
0:10:28 and then she says when he was coming
0:10:31 back he was coming back from wherever he
0:10:34 was going traveling and now he's coming
0:10:36 back she says I was cleaning the house
0:10:40 that's the first red flag I thought wait
0:10:41 a minute here
0:10:43 am I am I reading this is from the right
0:10:45 pages
0:10:48 wait a minute cleaning the house
0:10:49 she goes yes I was cleaning the house
0:10:52 I was getting everything ready for him
0:10:55 it's the same woman that's telling you
0:10:56 don't be a mother
0:10:58 that you know don't you dare to do
0:11:00 domestic activities
0:11:01 and then I went for I went further on
0:11:03 reading reading do you know what she
0:11:04 said
0:11:06 she goes because Saturday
0:11:08 is my true Superior
0:11:15 I said this is this is a fem this is the
0:11:17 mother of feminism saying this I said my
0:11:19 wife never said anything like that we're
0:11:22 meant to be the traditionalists here
0:11:25 I even showed it to my wife I said look
0:11:27 look what she said that's her that's a
0:11:29 different story you know even she
0:11:31 thought it was too extreme
0:11:34 I mean what is this she goes through
0:11:37 Superior
0:11:39 so I was wondering why is it that you
0:11:41 these founding mothers of feminism they
0:11:44 have one speech to the public to other
0:11:47 women and another speech in their
0:11:49 private life
0:11:50 and I think they know and we know now
0:11:53 that they do that their theories are
0:11:55 false
0:11:57 now one of the biggest
0:11:59 studies that have I think this is the
0:12:01 biggest study that I've ever seen
0:12:03 on the well-being of women
0:12:05 it is called Blanche flower and Oswald
0:12:10 Blanche flower and these are two names
0:12:12 of the people yeah
0:12:14 and it's a longitudinal study from the
0:12:17 years 1970 to 1990.
0:12:21 it is the longest study that was
0:12:23 conducted at a hundred thousand women
0:12:27 are there some feminists out there
0:12:29 chanting
0:12:35 they know what I'm about to say that's
0:12:37 why they're doing that
0:12:40 I'm about to drop facts
0:12:43 I'm about to drop bombs no I don't mean
0:12:45 those kinds of bombs
0:12:48 I know the SS are here the secret
0:12:50 services
0:12:54 well let me repeat this point because of
0:12:56 imperative is very important
0:12:59 the biggest study
0:13:03 the biggest study
0:13:05 that has ever been done to my knowledge
0:13:08 was it conducted by some anti-feminists
0:13:12 or did this person know it was conducted
0:13:14 by people who are neutral to this whole
0:13:16 situation they wanted to find out the
0:13:18 question they wanted to know was our
0:13:21 feministic policies now that have now
0:13:23 been enacted are they making women's
0:13:26 lives easier or are they making their
0:13:29 lives harder this is the question
0:13:32 they want to find out
0:13:34 is the career path a path that's making
0:13:37 people's women's lives and is it making
0:13:39 it easier or is it making it harder they
0:13:42 had a sample of a hundred thousand women
0:13:44 that's huge
0:13:46 20 years from 1970 to 1990.
0:13:51 and the conclusion was
0:13:53 that the well-being of women
0:13:55 has deteriorated
0:13:58 this is an incredible conclusion
0:14:02 it is the biggest study that has ever
0:14:04 been done on this point
0:14:06 and it has shown that feministic
0:14:08 policies that women going into the
0:14:10 workplace all of this stuff
0:14:13 and doing exactly what a man is doing
0:14:16 is actually affecting their lives in the
0:14:19 negative now I thought maybe okay this
0:14:21 is maybe a all the feministic uh
0:14:24 confessions that's one thing maybe this
0:14:26 study is a coincidence as well so I
0:14:28 started looking deeper into the issue
0:14:30 and I found that this was something
0:14:33 almost every study that I've seen on the
0:14:36 issue has said the same thing about
0:14:38 for example
0:14:40 there is a study by the policy Studies
0:14:44 Institute
0:14:46 that has come to the same conclusion
0:14:48 that well-being
0:14:50 for women has deteriorated in the last
0:14:52 60 years
0:14:54 there was even a magazine
0:14:57 called top star Trey magazine
0:14:59 which pulled Women's Health
0:15:03 78 of recipients women
0:15:07 they said if they could they would quit
0:15:10 their job tomorrow
0:15:12 imagine having a Workforce 80 almost of
0:15:16 the workforce of women they want to
0:15:18 leave they don't like it it's a prison
0:15:20 for them isn't this an irony
0:15:22 because this is exactly what
0:15:25 Betty Friedan said you need to leave
0:15:27 your comfortable concentration camp your
0:15:29 prison the home is the prison but now
0:15:32 women are saying on mass in the West
0:15:35 that actually what's the prison is the
0:15:37 work
0:15:39 80 78 percent
0:15:42 78 of recipients women all women said if
0:15:47 they could they would quit their jobs
0:15:49 tomorrow
0:15:50 80 of the same magazine they said that
0:15:55 their job
0:15:56 has led to psychological breakdown
0:15:59 nervous breakdown
0:16:01 has led to deteriorated mental
0:16:03 conditions eighty percent
0:16:06 80.
0:16:09 now I want you to ask you a question
0:16:11 if we got the same and I don't think the
0:16:14 study has been done if we got a study of
0:16:16 women all of which have been mothers and
0:16:19 they were full-time mothers in the home
0:16:21 with the children
0:16:22 do you think honestly that 80 would want
0:16:26 to stop being mothers honestly do you
0:16:28 think this
0:16:29 do you think eighty percent would want
0:16:31 to quit being mothers
0:16:34 no chance no chance
0:16:38 so feminists unfortunately have sold us
0:16:42 all a lie when I say us the ones who
0:16:46 have suffered the most have not been men
0:16:49 well I I believe I'm Allah he means for
0:16:51 the Muslim Muslims here by God I believe
0:16:54 the ones who have benefited the most
0:16:56 from feminists are men
0:16:59 I believe that why let me tell you why
0:17:02 because I as a man don't have to commit
0:17:06 I don't have to commit to a woman
0:17:08 I can go from one woman to another woman
0:17:10 with no responsibility whatsoever
0:17:14 I don't have to provide for her any
0:17:17 protection
0:17:21 this is these are roles my I don't my
0:17:24 resources don't have to be extracted
0:17:26 anymore
0:17:27 I don't have to provide for children
0:17:30 I don't have to do any of these things
0:17:33 if I live a feministic lifestyle
0:17:39 if I wasn't a religious man I'd try my
0:17:41 best to find the feminist
0:17:44 if I wasn't a Muslim man I say listen
0:17:46 I want a feminist
0:17:49 I want a strong independent why
0:17:52 because if I'm walking with the
0:17:55 feminists in the street and she's five
0:17:56 foot two and I'm six foot six 120 kilos
0:17:59 and she's 50 kilo and the burglar comes
0:18:02 or a rubber cover take your stuff I said
0:18:05 come on
0:18:06 foreign
0:18:09 [Music]
0:18:13 or if for example
0:18:15 I was sitting in the restaurant eating a
0:18:18 what's the other food that you eat with
0:18:19 the oysters this I tried it today wasn't
0:18:21 it
0:18:22 yeah
0:18:24 no and and I I
0:18:26 and the belgians the about immigration
0:18:29 thankful that you have people coming
0:18:31 from Morocco to give you tagine
0:18:35 [Applause]
0:18:44 especially if she's a Belgian woman
0:18:48 and I saw I don't want to generalize but
0:18:51 I they have a very Stern attitude these
0:18:54 some Belgian people
0:18:56 I was in the I was in the sorry I'm
0:18:58 making a joke honey don't take it too
0:19:00 personally but this morning I was in the
0:19:02 hotel and I was looking around and
0:19:04 everyone was silent
0:19:08 [Music]
0:19:09 how's what's going on here
0:19:12 have I said something have I done
0:19:14 something
0:19:15 and then I started walking away yeah
0:19:16 because I thought these people are doing
0:19:18 this because of me
0:19:21 and I looked I looked back to see if
0:19:23 these people are operating in this
0:19:25 manner and I saw that this is the sorry
0:19:28 the Belgian culture that you're very
0:19:29 quiet they're very you know
0:19:31 you need some flavor in your life man
0:19:35 I look back and I saw they were all
0:19:36 being the same way and I thought it must
0:19:38 not be me this is actually how they are
0:19:41 I thought they were scared of me
0:19:42 honestly
0:19:43 no and I was I was going into the
0:19:45 elevator and I saw a woman
0:19:46 usually I'm the one who lost my case the
0:19:49 moment she saw me she went
0:19:50 [Music]
0:19:51 foreign
0:19:55 this woman here she beat me to it
0:20:00 what kind of Islam is she following
0:20:02 she's following the the strict type she
0:20:05 must be an ultra conservative salafist
0:20:08 but she's wearing tight jeans for some
0:20:10 reason
0:20:13 anyway if I wasn't a religious man I
0:20:15 would go for I would go for a feminist
0:20:17 because I have the least
0:20:18 responsibilities
0:20:22 if I wasn't a religious man if I wasn't
0:20:24 a Muslim I would say I please where's
0:20:27 the feminist sir I I would pretend to be
0:20:29 a feminist Maybe
0:20:32 you would as well
0:20:33 don't worry you don't have to you don't
0:20:35 have the physical stature that would
0:20:36 make anyone scared I'm only joking
0:20:40 I would say yes but what I'm saying is
0:20:43 feminism
0:20:47 women as much as I has been I think
0:20:49 it's as men
0:20:51 I think it really has
0:20:53 now a woman going into the workplace
0:20:54 having a double burden wanting to leave
0:20:57 because she has mental disorders cycle
0:21:00 and 80 of the workforce I like that tell
0:21:03 me how that benefits women I want to
0:21:05 know how
0:21:07 I want to know how
0:21:09 and then in addition to all of this now
0:21:11 you're burdened with the work and you go
0:21:13 home and you have this responsibility
0:21:14 and that responsibility and stress and
0:21:16 all of these things and you have to be
0:21:18 competitive and you and then you have to
0:21:20 be feminine and then you have to and all
0:21:22 these expectations that are just
0:21:24 overburdening you as a woman and now
0:21:27 still
0:21:28 you want to inflict this pain upon
0:21:31 yourselves after 60 years we've seen
0:21:34 this affected millions of women in the
0:21:36 negative
0:21:37 it was their own self-admission
0:21:40 the feminists themselves have retracted
0:21:42 their positions many of them and we
0:21:44 still want to play with fire
0:21:47 it's not helping us
0:21:50 and this is something else I want to say
0:21:53 feminism has not only hurt women
0:21:57 and deteriorated their well-being
0:22:00 as we have seen by their own admission
0:22:02 but feminism has also hurt children
0:22:06 and I'm not talking about abortion
0:22:07 although we could talk about that
0:22:09 because as Muslims we have more
0:22:11 flexibility than Catholics
0:22:13 I'm not I don't have a strong stance of
0:22:15 you know a contract contraception this
0:22:17 and that but there are points some
0:22:19 feminists have made some arguments not
0:22:21 all feminists to be fair
0:22:23 that over the over like five six months
0:22:25 there should be
0:22:26 there should be abortion still allowed
0:22:28 six months have you seen a six month old
0:22:29 baby well it looks like it's a fully
0:22:32 formed baby you can you can actually put
0:22:35 it into an incubator and it will live
0:22:37 now I'm not taking a strong stance
0:22:39 actually I believe that within as a
0:22:41 Muslim within 40 days you can make you
0:22:43 can have an abortion
0:22:46 some say three months if there's an
0:22:48 excuse so Islam is not as cut through as
0:22:51 Catholicism however
0:22:53 yes four months sorry I do apologize
0:22:55 four months it's 120 days
0:22:57 2 6 9 12. yeah just to make sure
0:23:01 yes that's that is pretty however when
0:23:04 they start making Arguments for five or
0:23:06 six months and say pro-life now
0:23:08 scientifically the baby can live by
0:23:09 itself it's viable it has a heart has a
0:23:12 brain I think that's where we're
0:23:13 crossing the line here however putting
0:23:15 that to the side why do I say feminism
0:23:18 or feministic prescriptions and
0:23:19 recommendations have harmed children
0:23:21 because when we look at the data the
0:23:25 demographic data
0:23:27 of children that are the least
0:23:29 advantaged
0:23:31 we find that it's children unfortunately
0:23:35 in
0:23:37 households which are single parents
0:23:41 and I'm going to be very controversial
0:23:43 here almost all the studies that have
0:23:46 been done on the issue
0:23:47 have shown that homosexual
0:23:50 men man or man female or female
0:23:53 Partnerships have yielded negative
0:23:55 results for children
0:23:57 for example delinquency
0:23:59 there's an increased almost every single
0:24:02 study every single one almost
0:24:05 has shown there's an increased level of
0:24:06 delinquency
0:24:07 A reduced level of Education more chance
0:24:10 that that child will come out with
0:24:12 pathology psychological pathology
0:24:14 all of that went when there's two
0:24:17 partners of the same gender or the same
0:24:19 sex
0:24:21 and I had a conversation with one
0:24:23 particular professional Professor who
0:24:25 specializes in and this is online in
0:24:28 fact I was very surprised by this
0:24:30 conversation and also it's in his books
0:24:32 and works peer-reviewed works his name
0:24:34 is Nicholas wolfinger
0:24:36 and I had a conversation I asked him so
0:24:39 then if we if we identify that that's
0:24:41 the case demographically
0:24:43 yes if those kinds of family structures
0:24:45 are the most problematic
0:24:49 then which ones are the most
0:24:50 advantageous
0:24:51 this is what he said
0:24:53 he said nuclear families
0:24:56 now the guy himself is left-wing guy
0:24:59 if you if you see what he's he's not a
0:25:01 religious new conservative guy and
0:25:03 nothing like that he said we have to be
0:25:04 honest with the data he said look
0:25:07 when we look at the data we find that
0:25:09 nuclear families where there is
0:25:12 traditional gender roles and he says
0:25:14 something very interesting and where
0:25:16 there is religion practiced in that
0:25:17 house he said it doesn't matter what
0:25:19 religion I'm being honest with what he
0:25:20 said I could say Islam or this no I'm
0:25:22 not I'm saying this is what he said when
0:25:24 there is regular religion practice in
0:25:26 that house the children are more likely
0:25:28 to succeed educationally and from uh
0:25:31 they're less likely to be criminals
0:25:32 basically in the future that's what he
0:25:34 said that's his data
0:25:35 has been peer reviewed now he does it in
0:25:37 the American context now we can do that
0:25:39 in other contexts and see if it's uh in
0:25:41 Belgium like that or not
0:25:43 well the point is
0:25:45 when you have
0:25:48 when you have a nuclear type family the
0:25:51 traditional roles this has shown to be
0:25:54 most Advantage advantages for children
0:25:56 so there's two things I started off by
0:25:58 saying in this discussion I started off
0:26:00 by saying what I started off by saying
0:26:05 number one that I can demonstrate
0:26:07 through studies
0:26:09 and evidence and admission
0:26:13 that feminism or feministic
0:26:14 recommendations have harmed women
0:26:18 and now we have the feminist the
0:26:21 founding mothers of feminism saying the
0:26:23 same retracting their statements and
0:26:25 saying yes we have to look at this again
0:26:26 and do you know what Betsy ferdan even
0:26:29 said I was so shocked when I read this
0:26:32 she said that we had to revise our
0:26:34 decisions but when I go back to
0:26:36 feminists to tell them about this
0:26:38 it's this is I'm paraphrasing here but
0:26:42 this particular phrase is what she said
0:26:43 she goes there's almost a religious
0:26:45 feeling about it now it's out of my
0:26:47 hands
0:26:48 so she's created the Frankenstein
0:26:51 and now she cannot stop the Frankenstein
0:26:54 she goes no I I'm going back and yes the
0:26:56 data shows all these things that I've
0:26:58 talked about I'm trying to stop them I'm
0:27:00 trying to to reason with them I'm trying
0:27:01 to tell them this is wrong but now this
0:27:04 become feminism has become like there's
0:27:06 a religious feeling around it it's a
0:27:08 religious feeling about it that's what
0:27:11 she's saying
0:27:12 and this is one of the women who many
0:27:15 historians say second wave feminism
0:27:18 started her book started in 1963 a
0:27:21 second where feminism started then
0:27:23 many historians say that so can you
0:27:25 imagine that same woman she's saying now
0:27:27 I'm trying to go back and tell this
0:27:28 woman and there's a religious feeling
0:27:30 about it
0:27:31 therefore
0:27:32 and I say this with all Clarity yes
0:27:36 it can be deduced it can be concluded
0:27:40 that the 60-year experiment of feminism
0:27:45 has shown us that this idea of putting
0:27:48 careers before families
0:27:50 especially before motherhood
0:27:53 this idea of domestic drudgery
0:27:58 a woman for example thinking that she
0:28:01 has to take care of her child she's a
0:28:04 woman she refutes feminism after being
0:28:07 one herself in her book in 1998 she says
0:28:10 that they have reduced looking after
0:28:12 children like mopping the floor
0:28:16 yeah and for them
0:28:17 many of these feminists she's she's
0:28:19 attacking she's saying this she says
0:28:21 raising a child for these feminists is
0:28:23 akin to household chores like mopping
0:28:27 the floor
0:28:28 these same women are the ones who sang
0:28:30 we regret we mourn for our unborn
0:28:32 children now we have to look at the
0:28:34 motherhood as a proper you know thing
0:28:37 so why do we need to you know if you've
0:28:39 seen somebody it takes a clever person
0:28:41 to learn from their mistakes you're not
0:28:43 a fool if you put your hands on fire
0:28:46 and it hurts you know you put your hand
0:28:48 away
0:28:50 it takes a wise person to learn from
0:28:51 someone else's mistakes
0:28:53 now you look back in history 60 years
0:28:55 this has not succeeded women are saying
0:28:59 on math we are dissatisfied
0:29:03 with this option of life it's caused us
0:29:07 mental disorder pathology breakdown
0:29:10 we're dissatisfied we're unhappy
0:29:15 that's what they're saying
0:29:16 those who have tried it now this is the
0:29:18 Young Generation
0:29:19 you have two options either you can
0:29:21 decide
0:29:22 for the women here and for the men men
0:29:24 can decide to take responsibility be the
0:29:27 responsible ones and we're going to come
0:29:29 to the Islamic thing after the break
0:29:31 because there's going to be Maghrib in a
0:29:33 second so we want to have a break
0:29:35 but we can decide as we said to take
0:29:38 responsibility
0:29:39 we can decide to learn from the mistakes
0:29:41 of those who came before us
0:29:43 we can decide not to play around with
0:29:45 already failed experiment
0:29:48 if we all saw a plane taking off and
0:29:50 then it crashes
0:29:51 okay well let's go to the next one no no
0:29:54 thanks we don't need to try that again
0:29:57 and many women know already how this
0:29:59 feels many of you
0:30:01 will have gone to work and tried that
0:30:04 life and you forget how it made you feel
0:30:09 or and or
0:30:11 that you've never tried with motherhood
0:30:13 and you think that this is better than
0:30:15 this or
0:30:17 that
0:30:19 and I I I don't think you're going to
0:30:21 find a woman that says I'd rather be a
0:30:23 career woman than a mother I've never
0:30:25 yet met her
0:30:27 you know the woman that says if she's a
0:30:28 mother she says I'm going to leave my
0:30:30 because the thing is your child can't
0:30:31 say to you you're fired
0:30:34 you know you've done your job now you've
0:30:36 done your thing
0:30:38 and the thing is it's so ironic isn't it
0:30:41 that a lot of career orientation means
0:30:45 that when you go to work there's going
0:30:47 to be a man there telling you what to do
0:30:50 so it's the same kind of thing as a
0:30:51 hierarchy his policies and all this kind
0:30:52 of thing maybe in this very University
0:30:53 which is meant to be pluralistic maybe
0:30:55 the head of it is a man I don't know
0:30:57 maybe two men three men or maybe in your
0:30:59 you know in the department is a man
0:31:00 telling you what to do who cares if it's
0:31:03 a man or a woman telling you what to do
0:31:04 you'll always have someone telling you
0:31:06 what to do you cannot avoid this point
0:31:10 so I don't know what you're gaining what
0:31:14 one would gain really
0:31:16 by way of trying the career option as an
0:31:19 opportunity cost
0:31:21 or using it or choosing it above and
0:31:23 beyond a child and having a nurturing
0:31:26 relationship which is the deepest thing
0:31:30 think about it for a second like let's
0:31:31 be emotional for a second yeah and this
0:31:33 will be the last thing I will say
0:31:36 many women if they have young babies
0:31:39 it's not incredulous for us to believe
0:31:41 that they would put their own life on
0:31:44 the line to protect their children
0:31:45 correct
0:31:46 something that something that is so
0:31:48 meaningful that would make you die to
0:31:52 protect your own child that
0:31:55 how can this be compelled are you I
0:31:57 couldn't accept that woman would die for
0:31:59 her company
0:32:01 especially if she's sorry to say but
0:32:03 she's working in a like in a lower
0:32:04 position
0:32:05 I can't imagine someone working in
0:32:07 McDonald's you have McDonald's here I
0:32:08 don't know Belgian waffle shop and then
0:32:11 and a guy comes and says give me all the
0:32:13 waffles
0:32:14 and she says not when I'm here
0:32:17 she says not when I'm here I'm gonna die
0:32:20 for this one
0:32:22 yes
0:32:24 or she's working in McDonald's she's
0:32:25 flipping some pancakes or burgers or
0:32:27 something and this and that someone
0:32:29 comes and says no give me two barbecue
0:32:31 sauces give me two three no I'm gonna
0:32:32 take it by force no you're not I'm gonna
0:32:34 come out and I'm gonna fight you for it
0:32:36 to the death
0:32:37 the reason why a woman wouldn't do that
0:32:39 is genuinely because she does not value
0:32:43 for the most part women do not value
0:32:45 their careers as much as they could ever
0:32:48 value children that they have
0:32:50 and that's the bottom line to be honest
0:32:52 with you and that itself
0:32:55 is a proof
0:32:57 that you'll be wasting your time if you
0:33:00 choose A over B and I'm not saying
0:33:02 therefore women shouldn't work and stay
0:33:03 at home and you know no there's cases
0:33:05 which that should be the case but what
0:33:07 I'm saying is
0:33:09 this prescription that was given from
0:33:11 feminists and this domestic drudgery
0:33:14 attack on the family attack on
0:33:16 motherhood
0:33:18 we would be fools
0:33:21 especially with what I've just mentioned
0:33:22 to you we would be absolutely fools
0:33:25 to engage in a life like that we're
0:33:28 going to go for Maghrib and inshallah
0:33:29 will come back for the Islamic
0:33:30 prescription the failed advice of the
0:33:32 feminists is is not going to be good now
0:33:35 what is the advice now as Muslims I'll
0:33:37 say first of all
0:33:42 the Quran says
0:33:52 foreign
0:33:58 has
0:34:01 do not wish
0:34:02 what the other one has for a man is a
0:34:06 portion of what he has earned and for a
0:34:09 woman is a portion of what she has
0:34:11 earned and ask Allah
0:34:13 from his bounty
0:34:15 meaning what
0:34:16 meaning I shouldn't there are some
0:34:19 things women can do and yes we don't
0:34:21 Define we have a fixed definition of
0:34:23 what a woman is we do we have a fixed
0:34:26 definition of what a male and a female
0:34:28 we could come to that maybe in the
0:34:29 questions and answers is gender a social
0:34:31 construct and these questions but let's
0:34:33 just go with our Paradigm for a second
0:34:35 we shouldn't
0:34:36 one what the other one has
0:34:38 there are certain things that a man can
0:34:41 do better than a woman on average and
0:34:44 there are certain things a woman can do
0:34:45 better than a man on average
0:34:48 and it's economically efficient
0:34:51 as well as productive
0:34:53 for both to know where that is I'll give
0:34:56 you a counter example of this in New
0:34:59 York
0:35:00 they have a fire department
0:35:02 you know a fire department where they've
0:35:04 put out the fires and all this kind of
0:35:06 things
0:35:07 now
0:35:09 they have an obstacle course
0:35:11 because as a fireman you have to do an
0:35:13 obstacle course
0:35:15 when you when they when men and women
0:35:17 would want to be
0:35:20 firefighters they would go on the
0:35:22 obstacle course
0:35:23 now
0:35:24 we've heard of equality of outcome
0:35:27 versus equality of opportunity
0:35:29 so they wanted equality of opportunity
0:35:31 to be more yes
0:35:33 because actually men are faster than
0:35:35 women I don't think there's any problem
0:35:37 in me saying this men are faster than
0:35:40 women men are stronger than women men
0:35:43 are more emotionally stable than women
0:35:45 and that's not why I said that's what I
0:35:48 said
0:35:48 ah yes I know there's already there's
0:35:50 already there's already contestation I
0:35:53 did that on purpose
0:35:54 oh upset you're getting upset no that's
0:35:56 not my words
0:35:57 please attack her
0:35:59 she said that in her book she said that
0:36:01 in her book The Second Sex and the
0:36:03 chapter is biology
0:36:05 she said men are stronger than women
0:36:08 get more nervous breakdowns than men
0:36:10 that's what she was saying in her own
0:36:12 words words for words so I did that on
0:36:14 purpose I put her words as mine
0:36:16 to see if there's going to be reaction
0:36:18 and I heard reaction
0:36:20 but it's not my word not the Quran this
0:36:22 is self the founding mother of feminism
0:36:25 saying this stuff
0:36:28 white feminism yes
0:36:30 but you know what let me tell you
0:36:31 something about what what comes yes fine
0:36:34 we'll come to feminism and Colonial
0:36:35 feminism but you're Western and your
0:36:37 Colonial as well because at the end of
0:36:39 the day you're from a privileged
0:36:40 position
0:36:41 yes fine fine we'll come to this we'll
0:36:44 come to it we'll come to it we'll come
0:36:46 to any questions and answers I'm going
0:36:47 to come to you first
0:36:49 I'm gonna come to you first what's your
0:36:51 name
0:36:52 foreign
0:36:59 all right now
0:37:01 now let's go back to the point
0:37:05 can we can we can we can we calm down
0:37:08 can we come we'll come we'll I'm foreign
0:37:10 that's your name anyways we'll come back
0:37:13 to you yeah
0:37:15 the Quran States
0:37:23 that men are the maintainers and
0:37:26 Protectors of women
0:37:27 men the Quran States
0:37:32 that for men they have a degree of
0:37:34 authority
0:37:36 yes I know some kufar and this audience
0:37:38 will laugh at this but for me the Muslim
0:37:41 I don't laugh at the Quran I don't laugh
0:37:43 at the Quran
0:37:44 I don't yeah if you love the Quran yes
0:37:46 if you laugh if you laugh at the Quran
0:37:51 yeah
0:37:52 whatever please don't fine you're fine
0:37:56 what do you think of the Ayah what'd you
0:37:58 think of the Ayah what'd you think of
0:38:00 the Ayah
0:38:01 what'd you think of the Ayah what do you
0:38:02 think of the Ayah
0:38:04 what'd you think of the Ayah
0:38:07 so it's different it's not applicable
0:38:09 it's applicable or not
0:38:11 is it applicable yes or no okay we're
0:38:13 done now we're done we're done we're
0:38:15 done we'll come back
0:38:16 q a you're gonna have your chance you'll
0:38:19 have your chance right
0:38:20 you'll have your chance to not see
0:38:22 around
0:38:23 you have your chance but you have to
0:38:25 give each other time to speak I will
0:38:27 give you time to I will give you time to
0:38:29 speak I'll give you time to speak and I
0:38:31 and by the way by the way I'll let you
0:38:34 speak
0:38:35 by the way listen I'll let you speak I
0:38:37 didn't call you kuffa
0:38:40 no I didn't call you I didn't mentioned
0:38:41 or anybody yeah I said some I didn't say
0:38:45 you yes book we'll come back in the Q a
0:38:48 nasira I know you're triggered just just
0:38:51 calm down
0:38:52 come back
0:38:53 you can all come down we can have fun we
0:38:55 can eat tagine we can eat this and that
0:38:57 waffle this and
0:38:59 yeah
0:39:00 anyway
0:39:02 point is
0:39:04 point is this
0:39:05 Quran makes certain distinctions between
0:39:08 males and females
0:39:09 very clear
0:39:11 and these are katai
0:39:13 these are things
0:39:16 things that are known in the religion by
0:39:18 way of necessity these are is
0:39:23 which there is no interpretation except
0:39:25 for one interpretation on
0:39:29 there are some
0:39:33 which are clear-cut and decisive foreign
0:40:01 which are clear-cut and they cannot be
0:40:04 interpreted in any other way and others
0:40:08 which are ambiguous
0:40:11 for the ones who have some disease in
0:40:13 their heart
0:40:15 they will try and interpret
0:40:18 those verses which are ambiguous in a
0:40:21 way
0:40:22 to suit their own agenda
0:40:24 and also
0:40:27 that they can create fitna and that they
0:40:30 can have their own will their own
0:40:31 interpretation
0:40:33 and no one knows the true interpretation
0:40:35 of those verses except for Allah
0:40:39 and on this point by the way since we're
0:40:42 now talking about the Islamic position
0:40:44 there were some people who came to the
0:40:47 prophet Muhammad and the sahaba and they
0:40:49 were making fun
0:40:51 of some of the ayat
0:40:54 and they were saying
0:40:55 this and that about the prophet
0:40:58 Allah he sent down to tawba
0:41:01 later
0:41:05 why and they were saying
0:41:09 the Quran says that they said this we
0:41:12 were just playing and messing about
0:41:16 so Allah then States
0:41:20 do not make excuses
0:41:24 you have become disbelievers after your
0:41:27 believers
0:41:28 so one of the things which we as Muslims
0:41:30 must be very clear
0:41:31 we can all have our opinions but the the
0:41:35 decisive
0:41:38 the decisive
0:41:41 positions on gender are known
0:41:44 and they are known for a thousand Four
0:41:46 Hundred Years of Islamic history
0:41:48 and they include Al kawama or kiwama
0:41:51 they include the fact that man is to be
0:41:53 maintaining and responsible for a woman
0:41:59 that is their duty to do so even if the
0:42:02 woman has a full-time job and they've
0:42:04 agreed upon that and she's working nine
0:42:06 to five
0:42:07 she doesn't have to spend the penny of
0:42:09 her money the man must
0:42:11 maintain
0:42:13 through provision
0:42:15 that's number one
0:42:18 number two
0:42:20 the woman
0:42:22 in issues to do
0:42:25 with managerial hierarchy
0:42:28 must obey the husband
0:42:31 and that's in the Quran foreign
0:42:45 why because the Quran says
0:42:47 I'm not even going to Hadith
0:42:50 because the Hadith is clearly
0:42:54 if a woman she does this and this and
0:42:57 this and she is hasta for the husband
0:43:00 she goes to heaven from any bab she
0:43:02 wants any door She Wants What Now is it
0:43:05 mean to say that a man can be an
0:43:06 authoritarian addicted to a dictator in
0:43:09 the house no it doesn't mean that but it
0:43:11 means that there's a managerial
0:43:12 hierarchy in the house and it means that
0:43:15 the husband on certain issues has a
0:43:18 final say where's the limitation of that
0:43:20 the limitation of that is as follows
0:43:23 number one if he says to do something
0:43:26 which Islam doesn't say
0:43:30 that's Hadith that you cannot
0:43:33 obey
0:43:35 the creation and the disobedience
0:43:38 to the Creator which means that if your
0:43:41 husband tells you to do something which
0:43:43 is Haram you're not allowed to do that
0:43:47 number two
0:43:49 if he tells her to do something which
0:43:52 AHA writes for example if he says to her
0:43:54 go and work
0:43:56 then she doesn't have to do she wait a
0:43:58 minute that's your job
0:43:59 go on go and protect like that's a
0:44:01 situation I was giving you before no
0:44:04 if there's a if there's a physical
0:44:06 situation the man must actually be part
0:44:09 of that
0:44:11 so a man cannot tell a woman to do
0:44:14 something which is already part of his
0:44:15 rights
0:44:17 or her rights I should say
0:44:18 number three if it causes her daughter
0:44:21 which means if it causes a significant
0:44:23 harm
0:44:24 and the harm must be substantive it must
0:44:27 be real it might be oh I'm getting
0:44:28 mental health and it's not actually the
0:44:30 case if you're just using it as a cut
0:44:32 must be real and at the end of the day
0:44:35 there are genuine cases and disingenuous
0:44:37 cases I'm talking about the genuine
0:44:39 cases if there are genuine cases this
0:44:41 person is causing you harm yes if this
0:44:44 genuine and that woman knows for a fact
0:44:46 this is genuine yes I fear this man
0:44:49 however that's Dara that's harm
0:44:52 but apart from that the husband has the
0:44:55 final say
0:44:56 and that is not something remarkable to
0:44:58 me considering the fact that a woman is
0:45:02 way more influential in other spheres
0:45:04 for example if she has children
0:45:07 then the influence of a mother and a
0:45:09 child is going to outweigh in most cases
0:45:11 the influence of the father to the child
0:45:14 if both parties are present in the same
0:45:16 structure
0:45:17 and so what this does is it calibrates
0:45:20 the situation
0:45:21 in most governments you have checks and
0:45:23 balances
0:45:25 you have checks and balances if all of
0:45:28 the influence or power belong to one
0:45:30 party then there would be real problems
0:45:33 and if you don't have a decision maker
0:45:35 and a government or an organization you
0:45:37 have chaos
0:45:39 so this system was devised
0:45:41 as a result
0:45:48 does he not know what he created
0:45:51 and he is
0:45:58 he knows what he created he knows
0:46:02 and the man or the male is not the same
0:46:05 as the female
0:46:06 all of that the Quran states that by the
0:46:08 way all of that is something known so
0:46:11 Allah now he tells us these are
0:46:14 the rose these are the gender roles
0:46:18 one two three
0:46:21 there are certain things a man has can
0:46:22 do that woman cannot do you know them
0:46:25 a man can marry four wives a woman
0:46:28 cannot marry four husbands
0:46:30 I don't know why you're smiling brother
0:46:33 ah try and go for one at least you know
0:46:36 first and we'll talk about that later
0:46:38 you know
0:46:40 now it's true a woman can put it in her
0:46:42 contract not to have more according to
0:46:44 the hanabilla and I mean
0:46:47 but the point is that that's the thing a
0:46:50 man can marry a Christian and a Jew
0:46:53 whereas a woman can only marry a Muslim
0:46:55 man
0:46:56 yes that's true
0:46:59 a man can give talaq straight away
0:47:02 unless the woman is in menstruation he
0:47:05 can just say your talek and that's that
0:47:08 and a divorce will take place yes she
0:47:10 will have to stay in the house for three
0:47:11 months and all of these things
0:47:13 yes but that these are Provisions that a
0:47:17 man has that woman does not have in
0:47:18 Islam
0:47:20 these are Provisions that a man and
0:47:22 they're clear-cut in the Quran Kareem
0:47:25 and anyone who denies them is a cafe
0:47:29 this believer because they are not
0:47:31 subject to interpretation
0:47:33 and once the ayat have been shown to
0:47:35 those people
0:47:37 and I show these are the ayats and say
0:47:39 no I still disagree say well Catherine I
0:47:40 have no problem making that fear because
0:47:42 at the end of the day
0:47:44 is
0:47:50 today I have perfected your religion
0:47:54 Allah says in the Quran today I have
0:47:57 perfected your religion and I've
0:47:59 completed my favor upon you and I have
0:48:02 chosen Islam as a religion for you
0:48:04 he didn't say
0:48:06 Allah didn't say no
0:48:11 and then you can change it when you want
0:48:14 doesn't say that
0:48:16 so this is extremely important
0:48:19 there are some things which we are
0:48:21 malleable malleable about in Islam we
0:48:24 can compromise with but as we mentioned
0:48:26 yesterday
0:48:30 they wish that they could compromise
0:48:33 that you could compromise with them
0:48:36 because they would compromise with you
0:48:39 today we're living in an age I'll be
0:48:42 honest with you guys and this will be
0:48:43 the last thing that I'll say before the
0:48:45 questions and answers
0:48:46 we are living in an age where there is a
0:48:50 new religion
0:48:52 anthropologists today and historians
0:48:54 they look in the past and they look at
0:48:58 the ancient mythological fictitious gods
0:49:01 of the past
0:49:02 Zeus
0:49:04 Hercules these Gods you know Isis orises
0:49:07 these not the Isis
0:49:10 I know you think that I'm talking about
0:49:13 no
0:49:15 and we say look at these people they
0:49:17 were very clever people but they also
0:49:18 believed in these false Idols yes
0:49:21 I have a theory which maybe in the
0:49:23 future 100 years from now 200 300 years
0:49:26 there's gonna be some people
0:49:29 that will look at Western civilization
0:49:31 in the 21st century
0:49:33 and maybe in a university like this
0:49:35 they'll say look what's a very unusual
0:49:36 kind of Mythology they believed in isn't
0:49:38 it so what kind of Mythology is that
0:49:40 they believe that a person who is
0:49:42 empirically
0:49:43 Justified from a scientific perspective
0:49:46 as being a male
0:49:48 can be a can be a female
0:49:51 this is myth
0:49:54 it's mythology
0:49:56 it is mythology
0:49:58 if you say well I can identify
0:50:02 as a male the penis sorry to say and
0:50:06 this and that I can identify as a female
0:50:09 then as a black man or a white man I may
0:50:12 identify as a black man
0:50:14 then by the by the way I tell you I was
0:50:17 interested I did gender studies
0:50:19 uh on a postgraduate level as many of
0:50:22 you know I wrote a book on feminism yeah
0:50:23 and when I was doing the postgraduate I
0:50:25 was in the lift one time
0:50:27 I was on the lift
0:50:29 and there was one of these Ultra
0:50:32 left-wing feminists there
0:50:35 she said out of nowhere
0:50:38 saying that she said you know the penis
0:50:40 is a social construct
0:50:42 that's what she said
0:50:44 I didn't want to I didn't want to be
0:50:47 Yanni
0:50:48 inappropriate and said
0:50:50 how have you discovered this all that
0:50:52 but why
0:50:54 why what I said was and it was quick and
0:50:57 it was Yanni I said listen I'm sorry to
0:51:00 say
0:51:01 if you say the penis is a social
0:51:02 construct did you know what else is a
0:51:04 social contract he said what I said rape
0:51:08 that's that is what happens by and if
0:51:11 you say that race is a social construct
0:51:13 and in my book to be honest with you I
0:51:15 refuted Judas Butler Third Way feminist
0:51:17 yeah
0:51:18 who said that because I was reading her
0:51:21 books and I found that she was basically
0:51:23 saying that gender is a social concept
0:51:25 and sex is a social construct she said
0:51:27 sex itself is a social construct
0:51:30 yeah she did say that in gender troubles
0:51:31 yeah so so I said interestingly if you
0:51:35 say that then you say racism social
0:51:37 construct because it's biological you
0:51:39 can see race from there but if race is a
0:51:42 social construct what else is a social
0:51:44 construct
0:51:45 racism
0:51:48 so you can decide to have your fiction
0:51:51 but you have to accept that your fiction
0:51:53 brings about
0:51:55 other fictions that you don't like it
0:51:57 begets fictions that you won't like
0:51:59 the point here I'm saying is this
0:52:02 is that we must understand we're living
0:52:05 in an age
0:52:07 back in this day in this very country
0:52:10 leopard the second or whoever it was in
0:52:13 the 1885
0:52:17 he went to Congo and he bought it with
0:52:20 his private land as a private good
0:52:22 country made it his country colonized it
0:52:26 unfortunately
0:52:29 we thought the days of colonialism were
0:52:31 over
0:52:32 he's got to Congo and buy it and this
0:52:34 and that I was thinking how could a
0:52:35 country a small
0:52:37 as Belgium even colonize another country
0:52:40 they did it because Congo was having a
0:52:42 hard time at that time internal Wars it
0:52:44 was just opportunistic by this King
0:52:47 and by the way this was a liberal guy
0:52:49 you know this is after the revolute the
0:52:52 Enlightenment and all these kinds of
0:52:53 things
0:52:54 he went and took Congo with his money
0:52:57 now the colonialism that we're living is
0:53:00 not the same kind of colonialism now we
0:53:03 are living we think okay these days are
0:53:04 over
0:53:05 now it's not leopard II that's going to
0:53:08 come with his troops to Congo
0:53:10 but it's going to be
0:53:12 the Western feminists
0:53:15 whoever whatever color they may be
0:53:18 Western feminists whatever color they
0:53:20 may be whether it's Audrey Lords or Bell
0:53:22 hooks whatever it doesn't matter Western
0:53:25 feminists they're not from Africa
0:53:26 they're not from the village
0:53:27 they are not from the village they are
0:53:29 writing from the West
0:53:32 those Western feminists now are
0:53:34 colonizing our very Minds
0:53:37 and I would say honestly that wallahi is
0:53:41 a more pernicious and more disabling and
0:53:45 more micro kind of colonism
0:53:49 which we all need to be aware of and
0:53:52 questions and answers will see