[citation][nom]rebel1280[/nom]Well, i got news for you, undeveloped countries also tell their woman to shut up, get in the kitchen and produce food and babies, any more and your stoned.....Woman want equality but when another woman doesnt do what THEY think is right, they bash her for it? Wheres the sense in that?[/citation]
Hehe. No it's not news for me, it's what i see when i look around. So it's bad enough when it's here, worse when it happens in "developed" countries. You wrote a nice long response, but man, actions speak louder than words. If that's how the developed countries see developing countries, then they should try and set an example.
Anyway, that statement of yours is still pretty much true world over, to a certain extent. "hey xyz woman, make me a sandwich"- does that sound familiar? Where did that come from now?
As far your ending line is concerned, no one's bashing the woman here. The criticism is directed towards Tom's. You know as well as i do that they put her there for the "eye candy" factor alone. She didn't get up and make a video and post it here on her own. She was hired/asked to do the vid, right? And was there anything in that vid that was new or of any importance?
If there were true equality, there would at least be an equal chance of a male model presenting that vid, assuming that the prerequisite was a model (which is very likely, there was nothing in that video that we didn't know about, and it was hardly in any detail). We know that's not the present case.
p.s. Don't stereotype that stoning thing, Iran isn't equal to the developing world, and neither does the entire developing world follow Sharia law.