Crackdown on ‘masculine women’ in UAE
March 16th, 2009
The United Arab Emirates government has launched a campaign to suppress ‘masculine behaviour’ in women.
A series of workshops, lectures and TV programmes will be used under the slogan ‘excuse me I am a girl’.
Unfeminine behaviour in women is regarded by the UAE authorities as “delinquent behaviour”.
“The phenomenon of manly women has become apparent in society,” said Naji Hay, an official at the ministry of social affairs.
“These women are against the normal nature of females. Their deviant behaviour threatens other normal girls. This is why we had to launch this initiative to protect society from this menace.”
The BBC reports that a social worker in charge of the campaign, Awatef al-Rayyes, said that masculine behaviour in women had a number of possible causes, including the unfair treatment of wives by their husbands and lack of mixing between the sexes.
This, according to al-Rayyes, could lead to girls feeling more secure in the company of other girls, and lead to some adopting ‘the male role’ by having their hair cut short or by putting on a man’s voice.
We obviously already have a very domineering Matriarchal Society, that appears to be working, I think it must be due to these “so called Masculine Wemon”, because just the behavior of a woman has caused such fear of extinction of the male EGO!
Christina ∼ March 20th, 2009 10:35 pm