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Because every time something terrible happens to my people, especially to women, i feel like it happened to me.

I see myself in them. I know the way they feel. I feel their rage and desperation and helplessness. I have been there before. And i keep coming back to it. This nightmare is never ending.

Yesterday a university student named Ahoo Daryaei was attacked by the regime’s forces on campus for not having hijab. They grabbed her and her hoodie was torn and stripped off her body in the struggle. Enraged and helpless, she took off her pants in protest. They forced her into a car and drove away. They say she’s been admitted to a psychiatric ward and is under heavy security.

Sure the pictures are iconic and she was extremely brave and the message that her act sent was strong and historic. But im worried about her. And im enraged for the continued oppression and dehumanization of the women of my country. I feel her helplessness and fight for taking back control and feeling like a human in every fiber of my being.

I wish we didn’t have to feel this way. Every single day.

The hijab that women outside muslim countries call a ‘choice’ is a ‘law’ here. And it gives the oppressive regimes the ‘right’ to punish and torture and kill women for choosing not to cover their hair. Its not even about the hair. Its about the control they have over women’s bodies and lives and identities. Its the way they feel powerful by making women powerless. Its the way they are more worthless than a worm without the protection of islamic laws they hide their ugliness behind.

Not to be ~prude~ but I don’t consider cheating on your partner as they develop dementia “staying devoted”. Also, it makes me want to wretch every time a man’s sexual appetite is referenced as a “need”.

Also..peek at this..

Like….I don’t consider a disabled man saving up his money so he can fuck a woman who under any other circumstance would not consent charming or feel good. Its horrifying. And his mother is enabling this…

And then the cream of the crop!

She shits on the Nordic Model….a model shown to lower rates of sex trafficking….

A man who makes her feel physically sick, but she allows him to pay to sleep with the other women?

Greek women represent:

These photos show Greek women doing the type of physical labor they would perform more often than not. At the luckiest working conditions for rural women (aka most of the country) they would start working the fields as children and when they got older they would work the same fields with their own babies on their backs.

On the way home from the fields, sometimes the women would carry the wood and the mule would carry the man so he could rest.

Of course, we can talk about the manual labor that is rubbing cloth and metal for hours on end, chopping and carrying wood to light a fire for a large cauldron your size, and stirring it for hours.

But we can also talk about how it wasn't for them to break and carry rocks in baskets for the making of new roads. They would gather salt, olives, and grapes and carry them on large baskets filled to the brim. For salt they carried thirty kilos each trip, doing fifty trips each, stepping shoeless on the grains of salt.

Carrying water was also their job, often moving large barrels with all the water a house of 10 needed upon hills that horses and mules had trouble ascending.

(more photos for salt mining and carrying here)

It's no hyperbole to say these women carried their incomes and households on their backs. "The good she-housekeeper is a slave and a lady" the old Greek saying goes. A "good woman" was a woman who could be strong and work at home and in the field, often described with the qualities of a mule. Men took their wives out in the fields so much that some who were a bit more educated had to make their husbands sign that they wouldn't ask them to work alongside them in the fields! (source in Greek)

Some of these photos are also from 1970. I'm missing a photo from Leukada showing women carrying baskets of the stones they broke, and I'll add it here when I find it.

Basically, women were out of the house forever. A woman who got to stay home and never perform any labor had some type of privilege (wealth, status etc). Same as the many privileged men around the world who didn't perform any labor at all.

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Also one income was NEVER enough to sustain a family. This was possible only in some cases and for a few decades, like... in the 1% of cases in Human history. Normally the whole family had to work!