Women from Iran’s female police force, established in 2003. These ladies undergo a three year training program requiring intensive military courses including judo, fencing, firearm training, and laying mines. They serve alongside their male counterparts, work regular beats, and they do it all in hijab. Respect.
the bottom left picture made my night
can i just direct your attention to the middle right picture
I usually don’t do this but.. I am from Iran, rather the younger generation and luckily didn’t have to go through the things my parents and their friends had to (since the dictatorship.. yes, the rulers right now are dictators, will never not call them anything else). But anyway… as much as I love the strength a lot of these females have (and that guys usually fear the women of Teheran because they are so fierce), I can’t really have so much respect for them and feel rather sad. Because I always see the circumstance they live in. This police force would be perfect if they wouldn’t work for the regime, if they would help the people rather than establish the dictatorship. And the hijab.. I have actually never heard a woman from Iran even feel a bit proud to HAVE to wear it. I don’t know if it’s understandable what I mean with all that.. just.. I just feel irked to read “and they do it all in hijab. Respect.”. I love and respect them but the bigger picture is that I rather want to cry just thinking about the underlying problems. The youth of Iran, the intellectuals, the creative people working underground, so many people dying.. to gain back the freedom they hade before this idiotic regime started, to be able to do all this without rules what to wear and so on.
Sorry, I’m probably confusing everyone, I’m really not good with expressing myself. Just..there are so many things to be respected about the people in Iran but you choose something bitter tasting like this. Argh, I’ll stop now.. sorry~
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Happy women’s day, yo
What’s misandry, again?
Women perform 66% of the world’s work, but receive only 11% of the world’s income, and own only 1% of the world’s land.
Women make up 66% of the world’s illiterate adults.
Women head 83% of single-parent families. The number of families nurtured by women alone doubled from 1970 to 1995 (from 5.6 million to 12.2 million).
Women account for 55% of all college students, but even when women have equal years of education it does not translate into economic opportunities or political power.
There are six million more women than men in the world.
Two-thirds of the world’s children who receive less than four years of education are girls. Girls represent nearly 60% of the children not in school.
Parents in countries such as China and India sometimes use sex determination tests to find out if their fetus is a girl. Of 8,000 fetuses aborted at a Bombay clinic, 7,999 were female.
Wars today affect civilians most, since they are civil wars, guerrilla actions and ethnic disputes over territory or government. 3 out of 4 fatalities of war are women and children.
Rape is consciously used as a tool of genocide and weapon of war. Tens of thousands of women and girls have been subjected to rape and other sexual violence since the crisis erupted in Darfur in 2003. There is no evidence of anyone being convicted in Darfur for these atrocities.
About 75% of the refugees and internally displaced in the world are women who have lost their families and their homes.
Gender-based violence kills one in three women across the world and is the biggest cause of injury and death to women worldwide, causing more deaths and disability among women aged 15 to 44 than cancer, malaria, traffic accident, and war.
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