Have you followed the Oregon protests by a group of anti-government activists? The group, lead by Ammon Bundy, registers as right-wing and, at least to me, as pretty fundamentalist. But revolution they want.
Today's rebellions have a right-wing and fundamentalist religious flavor. They are also very, very, male-dominated. The role of women in the Oregon group is described in one article:
SLIDESHOW: Much of the attention surrounding the armed occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge has focused on the self-styled militiamen. But there are women occupiers, too. In the shadow of the the cowboy hats at the press briefings and the patrolmen styled with camouflage and rifles, women cook pots of chili, do laundry, and lead Bible study.
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Many of the initial crew of women began drifting away by the end of week three, leaving Bass, Cooper and another woman who goes by “Mama Bear” to cook for a crowd of male militants that seems to increase daily. Where there were at first fewer than 20 militants at the refuge, there now seems to be closer to 50. Cooper and Bass look increasingly fatigued.
For her part, Bass feels like the occupation could end if law enforcement and government officials negotiate successfully. She doesn’t want to soften on the occupiers’ demands about federal lands or their view on clemency for the Hammonds. Still, she wishes she could convince the men leaders to get together and talk, calmly.
“But I’m a nobody,” she said. She said she will stay at the refuge as a cook, “for as long as it takes. We women, we are helpers,” said Bass. “That’s how we are created, and that’s what we do here.”
Both bolds are mine.
Compare the views Bass expresses to the views of the Western women who have joined ISIS/Daesh in Syria*. Indeed, compare the overall views about women's proper places in the two extremist conservative revolutionary movements. Those proper places for women are kitchens.
Strictly speaking women, as women, get nothing good from joining those movements, and in the case of Daesh they get all their freedoms removed.
Yet that is an acceptable bargain for many. We have fundamentalist religious interpretations and years of educational brain-washing to thank for that.
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* I'm asking you to compare the opinions of the female participants in these revolutionary movements, not the movements itself. Daesh legally approves the use of violence, rape, slavery and sadism, and I'm not trying to draw parallels between that and the fumbling efforts of the Oregon protesters. Daesh also legally wants to eradicate all rights for women. But the conservative view of what women are for (kitchen, bedroom, under male supervision) is shared by all conservative religious movements, all over this poor globe.