I've pointed this out before, but I have some more indepth thoughts on it now. The pictures of Iranian women used in opposition atrocity propaganda are always of the ones who look like western baddies. They always have tons of fillers (both physical and digital), fake noses, and are scantily clad. Let's just put aside for a minute that these posts like these made on social media can't be verified and ask if these images are even a representation of the majority of Iranian women, because the majority of Iranians are still somewhat conservative Muslims in general. These images are shown to westerners because the opposition knows western men are horny and desperate to turn Iran into a nation of baddies. The discourse for years was always about mandatory hijab, but now that those laws are a dead letter, we see westerners were never concerned about mandatory veiling; the goal was always to destroy the culture in general, and Iranian women have always been seen as the weak link to drive the wedge with. Iranian women are seen as oriental and exotic, but in a way that's considered sexy by westerners. Western men are salivating at the idea of Iranian OnlyFans accounts, and going to Iran to live out an Arabian Nights Epstein Island fantasy.
The bigger picture here is that a state in opposition to imperialism will never be safe from attack. If they neutralize one threat another pops up. Venezuela tried to socialism the liberal democratic way, but that didn't stop the US from kidnapping Maduro. The only way for an opponent of imperialism to be safe is to be like North Korea.
Very desperate and very horny for women that would never go for us anyways.
They use images of specialized Iranian diaspora women to push the idea Iranian women are “naturally” horny and can’t wait for the Islamic Republic to fall so they can show off their tits and naked bodies. So many outsider artists in the West happen to be oversexualized Iranian women too.
>>754945Onlyfans in Iran would genuinely be more progressive compared to the booming halal underground sex industry present there right now
At least Iranian sex workers then won't be physically harmed or trafficked or exploited by multiple pimps
It's ironic how an orientalist like yourself think class relations and exploitation are absent in the supposed monolith that is Iranian society.
>>754937Its just another liberal country. Nothing special or worth defending.
>>755230Sorry but
1. The veil being an intrinsic part of the 'orient' is a western constructed myth, you can see the true extent of its silliness through the contradictory conception of the prude oriental prostitute.
2. We are against what our enemies call "culture"
3. Fanon was an orientalist
>>754956So? They were traitors.
>>755230Fanon is being retarded here. Wanting to preserve the veil because it protected women from commodification is no different from Gandhi wanting to preserve the caste system because it protected peasants from proletarianization.
I'm not saying that these are unvalid arguments, but you have to realize that when you are making these arguments you are making one from a socially conservative position, not a progressive one (albeit a socialist can be socially conservative)
>>756193And it is doubly ironic considering that the same secularist regimes that Fanon worked with would later wage a campaign against the veil and religious observances in general, partly as a reaction against the Muslim Brotherhood and various sufi orders in North Africa (who also fought against imperialism).
>>755230all this proves is fanon is an orientalist
>>755233i wonder if pre-figurative politics are orientalist
>>755230Fanon was a retard.
>>754937>the majority of Iranians are still somewhat conservative Muslims in generalWrong.
>Iranian women are seen as oriental and exotic, but in a way that's considered sexy by westernersCorrect. I hate how propaganda always uses sexualization of women. For Iran, it's the "exotic women that need liberation" for Isnotrsal it's the "strong empowered women that need western support", etc etc
>>756547real nibbas will remember the 2022 stories about the ghost of kyiv being a woman pilot
>>756602The ghost of kyiv just flew over my house!!
Lowkey I feel bad for Ukrainians. The people really got screwed over, by the Russians, by the western "allies", by their own government
TRVKE: the average person of any ethnicity and gender is slightly ugly
>>757297>is slightly uglyCompletely sujective
>>757297well yeah,why do you think "mid" is used pejoratively
>>757297>and genderThe average woman of any ethnicity is beautiful tho
>>757564I know exactly who you are.
>>757559The same could be said for men but this board is gonna say "no"
>>757772Because men are by default medium ugly. Women say this themselves and then they say they prefer their men "medium ugly". Not hideous but uglier than themselves so they feel better about themselves
>>757926Men are not medium ugly by default you choose to be this because you simp for women too much
>>757926Then most women are medium ugly.
Men just have more appreciation for the vagene over looks
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