yes unfortunatily it is a macho oriented society ...and u proved it

some syrian female blogger has come across some debate regarding the syrian society being very macho-oriented ( http://ya-ashrafe-nnas.blogspot.com/2007/04/notes-on-unconscious-arab-sexism.html )..i must first state that I'm for this theory, and it can be proved right very easily...however, the way this whole matter was debated was very funny and strange and shows that we "some syrian blogger" are not quite mature yet, and dont have a clear vision about how to set a goal and how to get to it.
lets start by the sequence of events as i've seen it

1- a syrian female blogger have writen a subjective peice of litreture about her experience with sexual harassment in public transportation in damascus.

2- this very lady had huge encouragging comments from people clapping, and saluting her "courage" to come accross such a very controversial debate. many of which were syrian bloggers that i highly look at.

3- i came to find that the post as it is is a good material to alarm us all about the problem and that its time to stand and face it.

4- after reading the comments...i had the feeling that everyone was taking this post as an objective matter rather than subjective, among which was the writer herself, so my prospective to the whole thing has changed.

5- accepting the post as an objective topic left me with no choice but to criticize it, as it was exaggurating far too much to pass, lacked the balanced judgement , and had lots of unlogical comparsions let alone the conclusion. in one sentence, as an academic, i could not just accept that post to be an objective material, tho i appraciated it as a subjective one.

6- i've sent a comment with this meaning to the writer and had such a protective hostile response tagging me with being an animale which is quite "easy to use" mean to respond when one lacks means to answer apropriately.

7- the writer of the blog released a note on the post, afterwords, using my comments in twisted way to verify her point about the syrian society being masculine (something i totally agree with). but unfortunatily she has done the following

a-she refered to my comments eventhough she refused to published them at the first place
b-she twisted my comments and put words on my mouth that i never said such as claiming that "i did not want her to publish our dirty laundry over the net" implying that i accepted what she already said as objective fact, and my problem was only that i did not want to reflect the "real"!!! image about our society to the readers.
c- she claimed that i said things which i have not AT ALL, therefore she was either falsefying or deliberately mixing my comments with other's so it can gain some cheap point to support her conclusion to come.

8- her final conclusion was that i was talking cuz i felt that my masculinity was hurt-affected, and that i look towards female as "inferiors" and that i feel it was my right to allow or disallow them to state or rise a point.

9- here comes the funniest bit...
i totally agree with the blogger that **UNFORTUNATILY** syrian male in general feel as "superior" to female but the problem is that even syrian female "represented in this case by the blogger" agree to that shamefull attitude...and a quick look at the comments encoureging her and clapping for her cuz of tackling the matter, and tagging her with " brave girl" "good girl"!! idicating how surprising they found the step comming of a "female" blogger.... and for her to accept these comments as complimentary ...shows that all the commentators deep inside do not look to female bloggers as equal to themselves and that they wanted to encourage razan...and strangely enough razan was eagerly waited to be evaluated by her male bloggers..and was not offended nor insulted by those comments which shows how ironic the situation is is our society and how people claim to be what they r not indeed

sorry for any typo mistake as im not bothered to use a corrector or to proofread