QOTD: Turkish president Erdogen

QOTD: Turkish president Erdogen

by digby

He's just telling it like it is:

"You cannot put women and men on an equal footing," he told a meeting in Istanbul. "It is against nature."
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Mr Erdogan has previously urged women to have three children, and has lashed out against abortion and birth by Caesarean section.

His latest remarks were delivered at a women's conference in Istanbul.

"In the workplace, you cannot treat a man and a pregnant woman in the same way," Mr Erdogan said, according to the Anatolia news agency.

Women cannot do all the work done by men, he added, because it was against their "delicate nature".

"Our religion regards motherhood very highly," he said. "Feminists don't understand that, they reject motherhood."

He said women needed equal respect rather than equality.

That's clever. I wonder why some of our more "traditional" Americans haven't thought of using that rationalization?


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