Ampersand responds to the Kay S. Hymowitz article I posted about on Monday with some research showing that references to "Sharia," "Afghanistan," or "Islam" far outnumber references to "Augusta" or "lacrosse" on feminist websites.



That's interesting, but it's not exactly a refutation of Hymowitz's point. Leaving aside the valid question of whether all those mentions of "Afghanistan" are actually about the way women are treated under fundamentalist Islam (as opposed to "war-hurts-women" silliness), doesn't proportion matter? On one hand, we have women murdered for the crime of having been raped; on the other hand, we have good-old-boy discrimination at a Southern golf club. I'll submit that the outcry over the first should deafen the outcry over the second. And Google searches aside, I just don't hear that happening.



Ampersand does make an excellent point: "Is it ridiculous for American feminists to be concerned about American problems when women elsewhere have it worse?" No, not at all.

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