"Money Hustard" (moneyhustard)
09/16/2015 at 08:15 • Filed to: None
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"Money Hustard" (moneyhustard)
09/16/2015 at 08:15 • Filed to: None | 6
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Becoming prominent in any sort of racing is hard. Breaking into prominence racing as a female is even harder. Breaking into racing when you are female living in the West Bank, now that’s a tall order.
The Speed Sisters of Palestine are an all female drift racing team in an occupied country. Present day Palestine is remarkably relatively secular considering their situation. It’s as if the rest of middle east caught up to their levels of radicalization a few years back and then sped past them. However, it’s still a place where women are expected to go swimming fully clothed ( why the fuck did I just Google image search “palestinian beaches” to make sure I was right. How does that query result in so many photos of dead, mangled little children??? FUCK). It’s still a place women aren’t viewed as equals.
You know what? I don’t have the will to write the rest of this, too many dead kids. Anyway, it’s a story worth checking out...
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SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie
> Money Hustard
09/16/2015 at 08:23 |
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I’ll have to check this out. I saw an article on them a few years ago which was great, but information from that area is kind of hard to come by.
SnapUndersteer, Italian Spiderman
> Money Hustard
09/16/2015 at 08:29 |
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Added to my Watch Later for my Chromecast
Wheelerguy
> Money Hustard
09/16/2015 at 08:42 |
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Give these women slots in Formula Drift and D1GP. Even as just guest contestants.
DipodomysDeserti
> Money Hustard
09/16/2015 at 09:18 |
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Very cool. Keep in mind that being fully clothed when men are around isn’t just a Muslim thing. Orthodox Jews also don’t allow women to wear swimsuits around men, and must keep their hair covered at all times. They also aren’t allowed to have any physical contact with men either.
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Money Hustard
> DipodomysDeserti
09/16/2015 at 09:20 |
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Yes, but in even Israel and most any other country women can go to the beach in a bikini and not worry, at least a little, that a death squad will off them later that evening.
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DipodomysDeserti
> Money Hustard
09/16/2015 at 09:26 |
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Yes, as the religious conservatives haven't taken over the government. However, there are orthodox neighborhoods where women have been assaulted for not dressing modestly. Also, if an orthodox woman wanted to wear a swimsuit around men, she would most likely be ostracized by her family and community.
real127
> Money Hustard
09/16/2015 at 09:42 |
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Sorry, can you provide a source for your death squad comment?
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Money Hustard
> DipodomysDeserti
09/16/2015 at 10:08 |
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Which is partly why I wrote the following:
Present day Palestine is remarkably relatively secular considering their situation. It’s as if the rest of middle east caught up to their levels of radicalization a few years back and then sped past them.
You won’t get any argument from me that Israel is also a mess. I’m highlighting Palestinians while lamenting Israeli occupation of the West Bank and the death that comes with it.
That being said, women are treated drastically more as equals in Israel, I’m not sure how one could argue against that statement.
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Money Hustard
> real127
09/16/2015 at 10:21 |
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I didn’t source that particular line. However the palestinian authority regularly has to crack down on death squads, and while they are often targeting “zionist collaborators” they’ve summarily executed women for a variety of reason. Other parts of the the Islamic world, like Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Iraq, at various points have been rife with death squads that mainly targeted “immoral” individuals who were more often than not women violating some unfair gender-biased code of conduct or another.
“Death squads” isn’t the right nomenclature for Palestine, however, plenty of women have been silenced when pushing for women’s rights, being unfaithful to their husbands, and yes, not wearing the hijab in Palestine. Call them death squads or just unhinged psychopathic zealots, it happens.
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Money Hustard
> real127
09/16/2015 at 10:25 |
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Check out the “Swords of Truth” in Gaza. They should qualify as a death squad. From Wikipedia:
In 2007, the Islamic group
Swords of Truth
threatened to behead female TV broadcasters if they didn’t wear the Hijab. “We will cut throats, and from vein to vein, if needed to protect the spirit and moral of this nation,” their statement said. The group also accused the women broadcasters of being “without any ... shame or morals”. Personal threats against female broadcasters were also sent to the women’s mobile phones, though it was not clear if these threats were from the same group. Gazan anchorwomen interviewed by
Associated Press
said that they were frightened by the Swords of Truth statement.
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DipodomysDeserti
> Money Hustard
09/16/2015 at 10:58 |
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I wouldn’t argue with that statement. I was just pointing out that the swimming fully clothed thing isn’t peculiar to Muslims, and isn’t a good indication of someone’s level of radicalization.
Yatz
> DipodomysDeserti
01/08/2016 at 10:48 |
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Not to mention the fact that moderate women—read non-orthodox—get harrassed and insulted by orthodox men when out on the streets minding their own business...