Even though I tried, I could not read all of this book. During my entire life I've tried to understand how people view others, judge others, value others. In my youth (remember those riotous, tumultuous 60's?) I fought, taught and marched against "discimination." I thought we were done with that, I thought we did our turn around, but every day I'm bombarded with news, statistics, and stories of continued injustices. I like to think - hope - that we have moved from total ignorance to individual situations, but I'm not sure. I struggle with why anyone would deny the value of another human being. I know -- doesn't everyone? -- that we all gain more when everyone works toward a common goal. Is it greed? Can't be true, since my smaller slice of a bigger pie is more...this isn't a difficult concept. Does denying the rights of any person make the person doing the denying better in some way...have more possessions, have more power for doing something? Anyway, this is a subject which totally bamboozles me...I've begun to think that there are some "things" that just are. So, the book was just too painful for me to complete...I couldn't come to terms with Ms. Nomani's mission...maybe if I could have read more, I would eventually have had more of an understanding. But, the subject is just too painful for me. The treatment of females described is just stupid, to my way of thinking, and why she would put herself in danger to experience it, is just beyond me.
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This was a complicated book. Liking and disliking it at the same time.
Even though I tried, I could not read all of this book. During my entire life I've tried to understand how people view others, judge others, value others. In my youth (remember those riotous, tumultuous 60's?) I fought, taught and marched against "discimination." I thought we were done with that, I thought we did our turn around, but every day I'm bombarded with news, statistics, and stories of continued injustices. I like to think - hope - that we have moved from total ignorance to individual situations, but I'm not sure. I struggle with why anyone would deny the value of another human being. I know -- doesn't everyone? -- that we all gain more when everyone works toward a common goal. Is it greed? Can't be true, since my smaller slice of a bigger pie is more...this isn't a difficult concept. Does denying the rights of any person make the person doing the denying better in some way...have more possessions, have more power for doing something? Anyway, this is a subject which totally bamboozles me...I've begun to think that there are some "things" that just are. So, the book was just too painful for me to complete...I couldn't come to terms with Ms. Nomani's mission...maybe if I could have read more, I would eventually have had more of an understanding. But, the subject is just too painful for me. The treatment of females described is just stupid, to my way of thinking, and why she would put herself in danger to experience it, is just beyond me.
This was a complicated book. Liking and disliking it at the same time.