Fighting For Freedom, Feministically

THE YOUNG PEOPLE, mainly women, of Iran, aremd with the internet and the taste for freedom their digitally enhanced knowledge of the outside provides them, have now been protesting against their thirteenth century social status for several months. Miraculously, only a few dozen or so of them have been killed by their murderous, tyrannical government, though many more have been imprisoned, charged with the high crime of speaking truth to power and backing it up with action, fighting for freedom. The average age of the protestors is between eighteen and thirty. As is usually he case, it is the young who dare to risk almost their entire remaining lives for the noble cause in which they so fervantly believe. And, as is so often the case, it is religious dogma and the inherently primitive, repressive nature of all ancient organized religions which impels them to the cause, as Thomas Jeffferson might put it. And, like Jefferson and America's other founders, they have long been more inclinded to suffer under tyranny than to revolt against it, in accordance with human nature. Their revolution is a last resort, an act of desperation, much like the American revolution against British oppression, oppression which was gentle indeed by comparison with that born by Iranian women and girls. Religious tyranny is no less despotic than political tyranny, both of which Iranian women suffer under. In these United States we are fortunate that we only suffer under religious tyranny, and that to so suffer is purely voluntary, while it is mandatory in Iran. Both religious and political tyranny are sufficiently irksome to motivate and justify action against it. As Jefferson said: "The tree of liberty must from time to time be nourished with the blood of patriots and tyrants." May the gay and transgender citizens of America finally one day gain freedom from their conservative Christian persecutors and oppressors. And may the women of Iran and the world keep their abiding faith in their ultimate liberation until it manifests in their lives. And may the cost to them in Churchillian blood, toil, and tears be no greater than absolutely necessary for the attainment of their noble, enlightened cause.