Regardless of what Islamic culture one views one will likely find the if their is oppression of women their is general social oppression in the culture and society. While I am not a historian, of the cultures I have read about I can think of none in which only women as women are subjected to oppression. Every culture or society I have read about in which women face severe discrimination always has an oppressive regime in power that subjects the entire society to severe discrimination.

One other thing to keep in mind is that groups who are oppressed are generally hated to such an extent that they are enslaved with an attempt to control their numbers or there is a genocide. I can think of no instance in which a group of people are oppressed but the culture or society goes out of its way to establish said group as more deserving of protection or deserving of being placed on a pedestal.

The only Islamic country I have any first hand knowledge of is Iran.

I think Pelle’s summary applies there very well. Iranian women are not any more oppressed as a gender than Iranian men are.

I would be curious what specific countries you have in mind when you slur Islam and what specifics you could offer.

In Islamic cultures women are often systematically oppressed in incredibly sadistic ways that have nothing at all to do with labor. In Islam women barely qualify as objects, let alone as human beings.

Feminism has become a religion. The only purposes of debate are to identify the practitioners and then to provoke them into discrediting their positions.

Judges, cops, and politicians win brownie points for “helping women” and “looking out for the best interests of the children”.

Lawyers and those who get their pay from DV funding are making a lot of money.

And as it stands those people need the illusion that the definition of DV is male against female and need the public at large to think that all other forms of DV don’t happen enough to raise concern (or get more than the feminist lip service line “Patriarchy Hurts Men Too”). For if that were to happen that means they would not have the market cornered on helping victims of DV.

From item 2. What remains the same though, is that men are the ones who do most of the fighting……and most of the dying.

Item 1.
1. The male gender role is more privileged than the female gender role.
Each gender role has its own unique set of challenges, and it doesn’t make much sense to compare who has it worse. The reason people believe that women are worse off is because feminism is the only source of knowledge for most people when it comes to gender roles, and feminism only speaks about female issues, while conveniently forgetting to mention all the important men’s issues.
A fitting myth for the number one spot. How fitting for a movement that focuses on one gender to conclude that their own gender has it worse than the other and only mention how bad the other gender has it when benefits them. But rest assured that when women have it worse its just pointing out oppression but when men have it worse its Oppression Olympics.

Sad part is feminism has done a lot of good and there is still a lot of good that needs to be done but as the movement is today it has been poisoned.

He has to fear the police and courts who have shown themselves very unwilling to believe that a man was attacked by his wife when they are called, no matter how obvious the signs are the woman attacked the man.

This unwritten rule, that if the police are called to the scene after a domestic fight then it must have been the man who attacked the woman, takes any physical advantage the average man has off the table. The man knows this and the woman knows this.

No matter how slight her injuries, and no matter how serious his, any injury to her will mean that he must have caused the fight.

What you are left with, then, is how willing to be vicious both people are. And that quality is much more evenly distributed among the sexes than physical strength is.