BTW derailing feminists in the US and Europe by bringing up the plight of marginalized folks in the Middle East, Africa, South America, and Asia ignores the wonderful and culturally specific work being done by feminists and other humanitarian activists in those places.

Relative privation is RELATIVE. You want to discuss Saudi Arabia’s driving laws? I’d like to discuss Nigeria’s 12 weeks paid maternity leave and mandated breaks for breast feeding. I’d like to discuss how the US is the only member of the UN that isn’t party to the Convention on the Rights of the Child. I’d like to discuss women protecting and empowering other women in Uttar Pradesh. I’d like to discuss a woman who developed a kind of swimwear that allow girls to participate in their adopted cultures while maintaining their personal cultural mores, and I’d like someone to please fucking explain how that is oppressive or offensive or in any way more extreme or dehumanizing than saying “your choice of clothing offends us - remove it or remove yourself.”

Stop cherry-picking your data, stop moving the goalposts, stop gaslighting activists, stop telling people their cultural clothing is offensive, stop valuing fetuses over people, stop allowing the police to kill black folks and NBPoC without repercussions.

Oh, and stop pretending that disallowing modest dress worn primarily by Muslim women while allowing modest dress worn by other groups is in any way not racist.