Yoghurt thrown over women in Iran shop

[Blueisthecolour1]

This is just awful, footage of a man berating two women in a shop in Iran for not wearing hijabs. He then gets angrier and picks up yoghurt & throws it viciously over them in an unprovoked assault. He’s shoved out of the shop by the shopkeeper. From what I understand the two women have now been arrested for showing their hair in public.

Is it just me or are societies like this completely motivated & upheld by cultural misogyny? Why are women so oppressed in Iran by a male hierarchy- and in Afghanistan too. I don’t think it is just about religious scripture/belief in these countries, it’s about an ingrained culture of abusive men dominating & assaulting women & keeping them as second class citizens; the why escapes me. I guess it’s just so alien and shocking to me, it makes me wonder what these men are afraid of??

That this complete stranger thinks it’s ok to just assault two innocent women like this, because he’s taken offence at their breaking of the “rules.” I feel so bad for women who have to live under this oppression, it must be horrific

What's their birth rate like, I wonder.

But it’s not just about the entitled man that throws the yogurt. It’s the fact that the women were arrested for doing nothing more than having their heads uncovered. Iran has promised to crack down hard on law breaking women! The man who committed the assault is presumably within his rights to admonish those wayward women? How can we in a civilised world condone this blatant oppression of human rights? How does my abhorrence of this unfairness in religion driven laws amount to racism? It’s nothing about race. It’s all about men’s use of religion to justify crimes against female humanity.

All religions oppress in one way or another - whether against gender or non-observants.

But of course, Islam always gets a bad rap...

@HelplessSoul

Perhaps because if I walked down the street in the UK or many other counties with my hair loose and wearing a vest I wouldn't be disappeared, raped and tortured, and then beaten to death. And nor would my family members if they complained about it.

Because it is Iran!!!!! Do people not read the news and so realise how awful it is there for women?

Dreadful there are no words.

I am glad the other men in the shop responded the way they did though by pushing the man out (not in a NAMALT way just in a putting some faith back in humanity type way.)

Iran has a terrible record of abuse of all human rights but women in particular fair badly under the current regime.
https://www.amnesty.org/en/location/middle-east-and-north-africa/iran/report-iran/
Amnesty have campaigned for the release of political prisoners (women's activists) with some success but more action is needed.