PINK CARD Episode 2: The Mannequins

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4.5 • 9.7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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This episode starts with two questions: If women equally led the 1979 revolution, why were their rights stripped away first? How does this happen to an emboldened part of the population? At first, the women fight back, chanting “Azadi! Azadi!” [translation: “Freedom! Freedom!”] in the streets until the clerics back down. But in a story told by legendary writer and activist Mehrangiz Kar, women’s rights erode one by one – leading us to the nationwide ban on women at stadiums. This is when Iran's national soccer stadium becomes a battleground. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The day in Iran, when you enter any shop or place of business, at the front entrance,
0:16.1	you might see a picture of an oyster.
0:19.1	Below the image reads,
0:23.3	women are the pearl, the veil is the shell, your veil will protect you.
0:30.1	When you walk the streets of Iran, graffiti and red on the city's walls, you might see
0:35.8	a famous Islamic phrase from the first Imam of Shiite Islam.
0:40.8	It reads,
0:41.8	San Andrei Hanah,
0:43.1	Women are like basal leaves.
0:45.8	You need to protect them.
0:47.7	The Islamic regime in Iran today has made women symbols of purity, delicacy and fragility.
0:55.3	These symbols communicate women need protection because women are fundamentally weak.
1:01.1	These messages are omnipresent and so they're hard to interrupt, to challenge.
1:06.7	How do you fight a picture of an oyster or a wall of graffiti?
1:11.1	These symbols create a new reality, subliminally.
1:14.9	One where gender apartheid is treated as if it were normal, where women are second class
1:19.4	citizens,
1:20.4	and it's all under the guise of men's benevolence and protection.
1:25.1	Segregation then seems natural.
1:27.3	Even beneficial.
1:29.3	To understand the battle over Iran's soccer stadiums, it's crucial to recognize that the
1:33.9	Battle of Women's Rights in Iran is a Battle of Symbols.
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