Armenian Women: Political Exploitation?
Blogian says that while he supports the idea of a woman’s movement in Armenia, he is concerned by Saturday’s rally staged by female supporters of former president, Levon Ter-Petrossian, in support of detained opposition activists. The blog wonders if this isn’t political exploitation.
This is sort of cherry picking, but I am not comfortable with the fact that Armenia’s opposition is exploiting women and young girls in their political struggle to gain power. Don’t get me wrong - I want to see a women’s movement in Armenia; I want to see more women in the parliament. But the fact is that women are oppressed in Armenia on a daily basis and used by men for their personal ends. In this case, women are used for politics. […] Again, I don’t mind women of any race and ethnicity being active. But when they are used by men for their political and nationalist purposes it is quite troubling.
- Published:
- 04.22.08 / 3pm by Onnik
- Category:
- Armenia, Armenia Presidential Election 2008, Blogs, Demonstrations, Gender, News Briefs, Opinion, Rallies
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