Me neither. Russian and Arabic aren't related at all. It's more closely related to English, because they're both Indo-European, whereas Arabic is Semitic and descended almost certainly from languages from Kenya and the horn of Africa. However, Arabic, like English likes to pick up and incorporate words from other languages, and given trade and just how close Muslim conquest came to the Russian speaking world, I would guess that's what happened.
And once men leave, they stop being valid and serious, so if women did dominate the sciences as women do medicine in Russia, all of a sudden, hard sciences would be seen as puff degrees and we'd be back where we started. Grrr.
Yes, this exactly. So long as what is perceived as feminine is devalued, women are still devalued, even if the laws say we're equal. It's better than it was, but society is still rife with sexism, and we need feminism as much as we ever did.
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Date: 2011-09-12 03:51 pm (UTC)And once men leave, they stop being valid and serious, so if women did dominate the sciences as women do medicine in Russia, all of a sudden, hard sciences would be seen as puff degrees and we'd be back where we started. Grrr.
Yes, this exactly. So long as what is perceived as feminine is devalued, women are still devalued, even if the laws say we're equal. It's better than it was, but society is still rife with sexism, and we need feminism as much as we ever did.