iranian women should all strip together on the streets of tehran

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Sick of the strictures? Go out naked in your thousands.

To get away from worrying about the media blitz of anti-Iranian drumbeats, I chose to abandon temporarily my staunch personal proscription against paying attention to the horrors in Africa. The thing that convinced me this was my only recourse was an unfortunate series of masterpiece essays I'd read some six or seven years ago on the various conflicts that were raging in Africa, and including a piece on the New Orleans ghetto that didn't seem so far removed from what was going on in Africa. The single deciding factor was finding out that in the African conflicts little children were being abducted from their homes, raped, brutalized, starved into feral little psychopaths who could then be made to go back and kill everyone in their families and villages. I could not deal with it. I could not even begin to stand against it if no one in Africa would stand against it.

Turns out someone did.

All behind my back, because, seriously now, I absolutely could not bear to look again... until just now.

I have to mention, here, that the Wikipedia entry is horrifically lacking in detail. The horrors these women faced down were so unspeakable this is the most detailed description you're going to get from me. Perhaps that is Wikipedia's excuse too.