As a Middle Eastern woman who was born and raised in the region, I wholeheartedly agree with Bill's statement. Every word he said was true. I do not wish for any girl or woman to endure the experiences we have faced.
Excellent. Well said. But we need more voices LIKE YOURS to speak to these protestors that are actually voicing their support for such nonsense! THOSE are the people that NEED to hear what you have to say! Bless you, ~JSV
@@B0R1S3K Maher is mocking protesters who oppose the slaughter of Kids in Gaza today saying they don’t care about the way women are treated in Gaza, those same women who are victims of sexism are also being slaughtered. It’s an outrageously asinine take. Maher has said the protesters don’t know what they’re protesting, it’s so simple.
I am an atheist. I don't believe in the existence of God. There is insufficient evidence or rational justification to support the belief in any gods or supernatural entities. I rely on reason, logic, and empirical evidence to form my worldview and do not find compelling evidence or arguments to support the existence of god.
I never in my life thought I would subscribe to Bill Maher but I agreed with everything he said. I find that happening more often. Real truth crosses all party lines.
🇺🇸 America 🇺🇸 has never had female president in ~250yrs🤏 The largest Muslim countries like Indonesia, Bangladesh & Pakistan all had females presidents 🤷♀️ To be stupidly simplistic like bill, America is the true gender apartheid state🤏
As an Iranian, I could not agree anymore with Bill! Spot on! I have seen the struggles of my mother in Iran and yes it is apartheid. Thanks for speaking out ❤ Woman Life Freedom
He couldn't find any other time to raise his voice for Iranian women. It turns out that he pretended to be an atheist while being deeply attached to his Jewish faith. Until now, all the propaganda against Islam was to conceal the terrorist and expansionist politics of his fellow Jews."
Bill demonstrates his heartfelt care for Muslim women by his vehement protests against the slaughter of tens of thousands of INNOCENT Muslim babies and kids who have nothing to do with Hamas’ barbarism…oh wait! SMDH 🤦♀️
I do not agree with him on so many things fundamentally but he is actually a powerful face in this fucked up world. I remember the days when a classical liberal was just fine, now they’re painted as right. Good on you Bill
Given that Bill is talking gender here, perhaps we should challenge the notion that courage is inherent in the possession of "balls," big or otherwise. Some of the bravest people in history have been women. The Iranian women standing up to the misogynist creeps tyrannizing their country are among their number.
@@sarahsnowe The etymology of ballsy doesnt come from the balls you're thinking of. from etmyonline: Meaning "courage, nerve" is from 1928. Balls to the wall, however, probably is from World War II Air Forces slang, from the ball that topped the aircraft throttle, thrust to the bulkhead of the cockpit to attain full speed.
As a Iranian, I really appreciate what Bill is doing. shedding light on what's happening In Iran. Yes, there is an ongoing war against Iranian women and men who do not want to conform to radicalism, Islamism and fundamentalism dictated by the government.
The problem is he is pretending this is not a thing people are upset about.... The reason so many are protesting the Israeli genocide of Palestinians is that the US helping it happen. They are protesting in the US to stop the US from having a hand in the genocide. They are not saying that yeah subjugating women is fine.... just that the US sending bombs to Israel to kill kids and many of those women he is pretending to care about in this clip.... is not okay.
I am an atheist. I don't believe in the existence of God. There is insufficient evidence or rational justification to support the belief in any gods or supernatural entities. I rely on reason, logic, and empirical evidence to form my worldview and do not find compelling evidence or arguments to support the existence of god..
Then what about all those young men who were either killed or maimed during the protests? They didn't care? Quit trying to lick Bill Maher's balls and look at the facts
Some years ago, a Swedish pastor told a newspaper about her work with women's rights in Afghanistan. When she got home to Sweden and held lectures about her experiences, white Swedish women came up to her and told her how wrong and racist she was for saying these things.
@@MonicaHelton These 'such women' would probably import the Afghan men who acted in such an appalling manner, then deliberately turn a blind eye to their actions to avoid being accused of being an "-Ist" or a "-phobe".
It is the knee-jerk, bullying accusation that Social Activists use whenever someone is pointing out an actual negative fact about a Non-Western culture. To say FGM is wrong is these crowds, you are labeled an ethnocentric, racist, or even a colonialist or fascist. (This can be traced back to the cultural relativist theories of far-left academics who used any excuse they could to demonize Western, European nations, or at the very least undermine legit criticisms of non-western cultures).
What bill doesn’t mention, and you apparently don’t know, is the fact that Iran HAD a democratically elected president until 1953, when the United States backed a coup to reinstall the monarchy of the shah, who then went on to kill and quash any opposition voices. The citizens finally got tired of the dictatorship and overthrew it in favor of the voices that promised them (but failed to deliver) a better life. Just think, women wore Western fashions with no head covers, drove cars and walked the avenues freely. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iran_coup
DO u not realize by Maher's logic he would support bombing Iran and killing the oppresed women too? Do u think only Hamas is getting killed by the airstrikes and bombings by Israel?
@@manitoumimi why are you assuming they don't know that? Lots of people know that. What Iran used to be like doesn't change what it is now and everyone outside the US knows how much the US meddles in other's affairs because a lot of them are on the receiving end
Now he just has to point out that things like underage girls getting married to old man by religious nutjobs is also happening in the US way to much about 300.000 girls between 2000 and 2018 alone.So this is not a problem of Islamic or muslim countries this is a problem of religious fundamentalists.
Whats even more sad is the reason for the veiling verse "`Umar bin Al-Khattab used to say to Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) "Let your wives be veiled" But he did not do so. The wives of the Prophet (ﷺ) used to go out to answer the call of nature at night only at Al-Manasi.' Once Sauda, the daughter of Zam`a went out and she was a tall woman. `Umar bin Al-Khattab saw her while he was in a gathering, and said, "I have recognized you, O Sauda!" He (`Umar) said so as he was anxious for some Divine orders regarding the veil (the veiling of women.) So Allah revealed the Verse of veiling. (Al-Hijab; a complete body cover excluding the eyes). (See Hadith No. 148, Vol. 1)"
No normal, rational person would disagree with what he's saying, but he brought it up in the context of pro Palestinian protesters. You did not address Palestine at all or the horrors happening to innocent people in Gaza. Your only comment was that Palestinians living in Israel have full Israeli citizenship. Very disingenuous.
This topic is a problem for the Middle East to fix not Americans. So not knowing about it isn't sad for Americans. A country that experiences this kind of treatment and then doing nothing about it, is.
🇺🇸 America 🇺🇸 has never had female president in ~250yrs🤏 The largest Muslim countries like Indonesia, Bangladesh & Pakistan all had females presidents 🤷♀️ To be stupidly simplistic like bill, America is the true gender apartheid state🤏
@@daviddarko5837 So if its a point for the Middle East to fix, why are Americans protesting and involved in Palestine - Israel conflict and Russia - Ukrainian conflict? the double standard is sickening.
As a multicultural living in Iran. All I can say to you @Bill THANK YOU. Wish everyone all around the world could become more educated and STOP following a trend which they dont even understand the meaning of it. Once again THANK YOU
@@Crit1kalMike I am Iranian. I don't stand with Israel. So you claim has been debunked. Don't let whatever that's fooling you fool you and cry even more.
Islamophobia is an oxymoron because having a phobia means having an irrational fear. Fearing Islam is totally rational and hence cannot possibly be called a phobia.
Yet the vast majority liberals in the west continue to vote for open borders and mass Muslim migration. It will destroy the west, and it will be on the left for facilitating it.
Unfortunately, with today's youth. It's falling on deaf ears. Thay're saying it's western propaganda. They're totally clueless. Just like Rep. Rashida Talib.
🇺🇸 America 🇺🇸 has never had female president in ~250yrs🤏 The largest Muslim countries like Indonesia, Bangladesh & Pakistan all had females presidents 🤷♀️ To be stupidly simplistic like bill, America is the true gender apartheid state🤏
When I told my brother that hundreds of millions of women were required by law to wear burquas or be arrested, he dismissively said "most of them don't have a problem with it". I asked him how he knew how Muslim women in dozens of countries feel about it, and he quipped "they would refuse to do it if they didn't want to". So there you go, women of the world; one American man who never met you, deciding how you all feel. The college kids siding with Hamas are just as educated.
the point you're both missing here is that how those women feel doesn't enter into the equation. in the west, we care about individual rights. in the rest of the world, not so much.
what college kids are siding with hamass besides yours and maga'ts? Most college people are against isreals war crimes and genocide against Palestinians
Had a high-school friend who identified as Persian because of what his family went through to leave. His father got him and his mom out but didn't make it out himself and was executed. My friend was 10 when he and his mom made it into the US thanks to his dad's bravery. He hated what Iran is now for good reason. I see events and geopolitics differently now, too, because of his experience. 😢
Everyone should listen to Yasmine Mohammed’s conversation with Sam Harris, his podcast episode #175, “Leaving the Faith”. She chokes up at one point and thanks him for making her feel *seen* with his TED talk. There is a real tension between privileging religious tolerance and prioritizing gender equality. Let’s not resolve it by taking the wrong side! We can disagree with Islam’s ideas without being racist, but we can’t tolerate religious practice without allowing others to severely curtail the freedoms of and in many cases hurt women. FGM is actually scary common in certain communities. Stand up for women!
I grew up under forced Islam and Find it more racist when people take the side of men who told me I didn't matter and should shut up because I was a woman. Anyone who supports a religion that tells a 9 year old she's an adult and should obey a husband is an idiot. Any woman who accepts the oppression of hijab is also an idiot.
@@21972012145525 - Because a 'practicing Orthodox Muslim' would separate his head from the rest of his body after shrieking 'Allahu Akbar' at the top of their lungs.
Hallelujah! This has been my gripe for years--when we withdrew from Afghanistan, when the brave Iranian women stood up, and especially since Oct 7th. This is Bill's most impactful new rules ever!
@@blackout07blue Exactly, we can’t control the governments of the Middle East, this message should have been sent to the Middle East instead of America.
My in laws fled Egypt in the 80s because radical Muslims were targeting Christians. When I met my wife and met her parents, they told me the horrors of Islam.
Lives of Coptic christians are truly hell in egypt, but don't wait for mainstream media to be your ally, they are all hypocrites and will always side with islamist
My mom's best friend left Egypt to work in the US as an au pair. She worked, married an American, and had a family. Never regretted it, either. She wanted to live on her own terms, - _not islam's terms._
@@21972012145525ok bot. do you really think women aren't murdered *every day* in these countries? Did you just conveniently miss the part about honor killings?
where are the marches for that? well, int he 90s they happened, and in 2022 they happened. that woman in Iran Bill mentioned? in 2022 there were a whole bunch of protests all over, and int e US, in solidarity with her. there was a whole movement to try and get the US to make Iran treat women better. it failed. why? because w can't do sh_t to Iran. we lost all leverage we had over them when trump killed the deal Obama made. the only thing we could do would be to invade, and THAT would be a horror show for everyone involved. but Israel? we still got leverage over them. those kids Bill is whining about have most likely shifted US policy to save thousands of lives in Gaza that israel would have murdered in their genocide. which makes Bill's whole essay really stupid. the kids are smart enough to protests something they might be able to change. the apartheid of women int eh middle east will never be changed by outside pressure as long as we buy oil from them.
@@21972012145525 Guess you missed the part about honor killings happening so often that they can't even count them, Mr. Bunch-o-numbers bot account. 6:34
Remember back in the day when Bill had a panel on Politically Incorrect talk about this same issue and the one woman on the panel said why is something that happens to woman defended as cultural. Sad that we are still talking about this decades later
@@willhiggins9563 why don't any US Muslim congresswomen who protest everything but this, get elected? Their supporters don't protest it. "It's freedom of religion. We hate Israel & the US". No Dem campus protesters care one bit. Of what Bill mentioned.
Because the immigrants cry about being “poor brown minorities” in “white US” and people bow to them and forget on the world stage they are the majority by far.
Some people have a hard time differentiating culture from race. So they’re reluctant to criticize any non-western culture for fear of being perceived as racist. Even if that culture is engaging in behavior that’s clearly pathological. The irony is, this inclination is itself a form of racism-as it implies that races and cultures from anywhere but the West should be held to a lower standard than we would hold ourselves. What Thomas Sowell calls “the soft bigotry of low expectations”.
I've never understood that part about Islam. You have to cover yourself to not tempt men to look at you with desire and possibly harm you? Shouldn't the men be working harder on themselves than forcing the women to dress up like ninjas in public?
The Quran does not say that women must cover their hair or faces or wear these black tents. Modesty is required, for men and women in the Islamic faith. What you mentioned is literally written as a commandant; men must lower their gaze and not leer at women & make them feel uncomfortable.
🇺🇸 America 🇺🇸 has never had female president in ~250yrs🤏 The largest Muslim countries like Indonesia, Bangladesh & Pakistan all had females presidents 🤷♀️ To be stupidly simplistic like bill, America is the true gender apartheid state🤏
THIS 👆👆 Growing up I realized, changing what's genuinely wrong in a society is HARD and challenging. Everything else is just to pat their smug selves on the back.
🇺🇸 America 🇺🇸 has never had female president in ~250yrs🤏 The largest Muslim countries like Indonesia, Bangladesh & Pakistan all had females presidents 🤷♀️ To be stupidly simplistic like bill, America is the true gender apartheid state🤏
First off, THEY DO. Second what Bill Maher here is forgetting is that Israel wants to be treated as the "only democracy in the Middle East. While they are killing 30k civilians. You can be against more than one thing at the same time.
@@CM-ld3dq As a non-Westerner, I would say the West has accomplished this the most. And I see that multiculturalism may soon destroy it. You cannot import and then tolerate intolerant cultures without consequences.
This is the most crucial and insightful I've heard from Maher in a long time. The audience is so stunned by the truth they don't know how to respond. It is important to be reminded that Islam is not a humane religion.
Saw this firsthand in places such as Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan some years ago. Religious police would roam areas of downtown Riyadh harassing women if they weren’t covered properly. The plight of women and girls in Afghanistan under the Taliban is appalling. Animals are treated better.
Deployed in '12 to Afghan. When I came home in '13 and tried to tell people how horrible women are treated over there, literally NOBODY cared. Nobody. Even when that insanely popular series "The Handmaid's Tale" came out, and women were obsessed with it. They were like "this is what America will be!" I would look at them and say "are you serious? This is happening RIGHT NOW all over the world, and it's not happening in America." They would just scoff and say something about me being a bigot. Logic has not existed in the general public's mind for years.
🇺🇸 America 🇺🇸 has never had female president in ~250yrs🤏 The largest Muslim countries like Indonesia, Bangladesh & Pakistan all had females presidents 🤷♀️ To be stupidly simplistic like bill, America is the true gender apartheid state🤏
@@JuanAppleseed-ge6tbwesterners are blind to things until it happens to them but by then its too late. I said this years ago but I was told I'm just a puppet for white people. So I stopped n said they'll learn the truth
Christian sects, such as Fundamentalist Mormons, often treat women poorly. Similarly, Benedictine College's Harrison Butker holds views on women that are as restrictive as those of some radical Muslims or Orthodox Jews. For instance, Orthodox Judaism requires women to wear wigs to cover their hair, a practice with origins in ancient traditions. Historically, Catholic women were also required to cover their heads in church, and some Catholics advocate for a return to this practice. Women are even segregated at the Wailing Wall. These practices are common across many religions, although there are liberal Muslims who advocate for more progressive views on gender. However, these issues should not be used as arguments to justify the Israeli apartheid state or its actions. People around the world are protesting against Israel and Netanyahu's policies. MAHER is engaging in a fallacious argument.
@alexkiddonen It wouldn't matter. They are just screaming so people will look at them. To feel like they matter. The cause they choose to scream about this week is just an excuse to be loud. No one want's to tackle an actual problem the would be hard to solve. We have no more Mandela's. They aren't even trying to stop anything that's happening in Gaza. Even that would be too hard. They are just trying to force their schools to do something. Doesn't really matter what as long as they feel personally powerful when It's over. Kids at this age are sick in the head. I blame the internet.
As a young person, we know sexism exists????????????? Literally let women wear whatever the fuck they want, domestic violence is bad, and discrimination in the workplace is disgraceful. I don't see how any of that justifies Israel's war on Gazan infants.
“From the river to the sea, all the women shall be free”. - Bill Maher, 2024 Inspiring words Bill, and I as a 23 year old (conservative, as well) man will support this cause.
For me, this was one of the best new rules videos. Bill's phrase: "...don't even have the right to show their face" is truly haunting. This is mass madness and it is still going on for millions of women worldwide. I'm sorry to say that I have ruled out muslim countries from my list of places to visit in the future, primarily because of avoiding witnessing this inhumane practice. I can't have a good time as a tourist, while people are treated like inferior all around me, like it's a normal thing.
@@HunterZolomon He lies that being bombed and starved (what Israel does to women in Gaza) is better than the other stuff women are subjected to in Islamic countries. It's a completely ridiculous argument and it's incomprehensible for me how so many people believe it.
Does the US support that hijab oppression with your tax money? Is hijab oppression worse than having your kids being blown up? Do people have to protest either everything or nothing?
I hugely RESPECT YOU, Mr. Maher ! For speaking the no one wants to speak up about !! Thank you thank you forever, Sir! For these words of courage ! From one of those women ! I’m a witness! It’s ALL true!
That's not a counterargument. What was happening before was terrible. That it's run by a corrupt government now doesn't negate the horrors of apartheid.
@@josephgriffin2388 every nation on earth is capitalist, stop blaming a system that failed 60 years ago for all your problems, your problems come from capitalism and greed and not regulating corporations and the rich, not powerless commies
Visited Saudi Arabia ~15 years ago for professional reasons and witnessed first-hand women walking fully covered in black robes (don't know the name of the clothing, don't want to learn it). And I mean ALL women, not just the local ones. Every woman in the plane we arrived on, as soon as it landed, switched to wearing this. It was gut wrenching. I suddenly realized that many things that I considered as a given, being born and raised in Europe, are simply not. And with that, how lucky we are now in the West. We were not always like this. 500 years ago we were burning women "because they are witches". But some parts of the world are doing similar things RIGHT NOW.
It's already practised in Western European societies! Guess who's busy defending that oppressive crap, Feminists along with muslim men! Traitors busy ruining what they can't live without or create themselves!
BRAVO!!! THIS NEEDS TO BE SHARED AND HEARD EVERYWHERE! I can't praise you enough for speaking about this disgusting treatment of tens of millions of women around the world! This cancer that we are allowing to enter and spread into western societies needs to expelled immediately before it's too late...
Now, there is only one country in the Middle East where a woman, Jewish, Christian, Muslim or any other religion can choose her own dress code... Care to guess which one?
exactly… No jews, no news Where were the protests when ISIS (essentially the same as Hamas) murded countless Yizids in Syria? Where are the protest for the constantly murdered and oppressed Kurds? Nah mate, can‘t blame the jews for that so no news here
We have a small store in immigrant neighborhood of San Diego. The Afghan women working there quit because their mosque said women working outside of their homes is against Islam.
Oh so now you're going to shoehorn in the immigrant citizens of a cou try we occupied for 2o years ? 20 after Bin Laden was eliminated ? .do you have ZERO perspective ?
Immigrants should be required to sign a document acknowledging that in the West, they are aware that women have the same rights and freedoms as men. They must agree to abide by all laws that enforce womens rights, and be told that failure to abide by such laws will result in deportation. Don't like that, then Don't come.
That's very ambitious of you but how about laws against abuse such as female genital mutilation? We actually have laws against that in the United States but when the cases come up, the sleazy judges are simply paid off and the FGM continues. So it's not just a matter of knowing it's a matter of adhering to the laws of the land which doesn't even happen, so we have at least a million little American Muslim girls who have suffered the same fate as the little girls of Indonesia because our judges are corrupt
Bill Maher knows where he stands. He either A. Supports the left because he knows it's good for him. Or B. He Truly is ignorant. His intellect is only a perception by a mass group of people. A group of people that for many years of my youth I was a part of until I reach the age of reason.
@@tipsyt1909 Weird that conservatives hate him they tend to defend their own in lock step unison.... OH never mind he is a conservative that is critical of dear leader....
@@skillcoiler I'm nominally a conservative... I don't h8 Maher. Sometimes, he's actually funny... like his comment about pitching tents in this video... but Maher is not, in any way, conservative.
Greed and Religion. The two things that WILL terminate the species, a process that is near completion. WITHOUT a World War that depletes ALL the resources remaining so we cannot recover, the planet itself is now responding to the poison we have inflicted and continue to inflict upon it.
@@Beth-zg6gbdemocrats are weak and only like to talk and feel good. They don't bring solutions. Vote blue is a joke at this point. The blue only use people's identity or culture against them n then use us as clubs. The red does the same but they generally bring results. Do I like the Republicans?no but I like them more than people who don't get shit done.
I'm from Aotearoa, female, I support women worldwide not for feminism, just to be a female, a daughter, a sister, a wife, a mother, an aunt, a grandmother - simple😊
Interesting that you say being more equal is "how well we have it" like we should be grateful. Yeah we're so so fortunate that we aren't beaten and killed. It's like winning the lottery. SMH.
@@---Dana---- ''Yeah we're so so fortunate that we aren't beaten and killed. It's like winning the lottery. SMH.'' YES, Dana. YES, you are very fortunate not to be beaten, raped, and killed. Because that is normal for women all around the world. How can you be so dense? This whole world is hell for women, and the West is the most habitable place, even if it isn't perfect. So, yes. You should be grateful that you weren't born in a place where women are treated worse than cattle. You should be grateful that you are allowed to show your face in public and not beaten by your husband whom you were forced to marry at the age of 9. None of these things should be taken for granted. Women have been oppressed for thousands of years, and if the light goes out in the West, that opression will continue for thousands more. Don't you want to end it?
Been all over the world. What the west does to woman is train them that they are forever oppressed and forever the victims of men. Morgan Stanley predicts by 2030 50% of woman between ages of 25 and 45 will be single and childless
The silent chirping of crickets....thank you for video opening up people's eyes in America. And hopefully open the hearts to the forgotten women that feel invisible & made to dress as if invisible... to rest of the world. With no voice or person to appeal to change this.
@Bill Mahr while I disagree with you on a varying degrees of subjects. I whole heartingly agree with you on this. Thank you for bringing this to your audience and on line following.
But because it happens to women ... ignored by nearly everyone. Thank you, Mr. Maher, for bringing this nearly worldwide crime forward. The fact that your audience was silent at various critical moments shows how "off the radar" women's suffering and oppression is to people everywhere -- men and women, of every age and class, of every country and creed. Well done, Mr. Maher. Well done.
Except the gender oppression he mentioned has nothing to do with the horrific genocide going on right now. And that’s what the students are protesting. That genocide Includes the utter annihilation of the women and children you care about, and the entire infrastructure that could possibly sustain human life for women, men, or children. I hope you see that Maher is dangling gender laws of governments in entirely not-Palestine countries (many only in power with active US support, btw) to take attention away from the horror being carried out by Israel /US right in front of us, with our tax dollars. His writing staff, presumably younger and with access to more recent information than his romanticized Exodus-novel view of the world, really ought to save this guy from himself. For starters his more educated staffers could remind their Islamophobic boss that for many decades the main org representing all Palestinians, the PLO, was a SECULAR, nationalist organization. They had many Marxist groups in their coalition, for f’s sake. It was only after that coalition caved to US/Israel bad-faith promises, making life for Palestinian women and men even more of a living hell than their already hellish and illegal conditions of occupation, that most Palestinians turned to Hamas. It was the only group that was still fighting for basic Palestinian safety and sovereignty.
@@teynaranjas788for example the infrastructure you point: Hamas used billions to build more tunnels than New York subways. That money could have been used for infrastructure. Now it is used on killing… and of course a few billions are with Hamas leaders sitting comfortably in Qatar.
Thank you Bill… there is a profound lack of critical inquiry/analysis among those who are outraged about the Gaza/Isreal situation… so important to look at the deeper issues…
🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 This is exactly why the US troops got humiliated & lost in both Afghanistan & Iraq 😖😖😖 He thinks all Muslims & all Arabs r crap & they r all the same🤦♀️ Bill’s laziness & simplistic is actually hurting Israel 🤷♀️ Does he know that there r many Christians among the Palestinians?! Does he know why Hamas, Arab Sunnies, has been allied with Iran, Persian Shiites?! Does he know even the deference between the Palestinians themselves & why Fatah has clashed before with Hamas?! 🤷♀️
I have spent several weeks in Iran. Having visited approx. 60 - 70 countries over 60 odd years I class Iran among the friendliest, if not The friendliest I've visited. Pleasant, charming people who love to have visitors into their homes. A Chinese travel writer (female), who wrote for Lonely Planet, told me that Iran was her favourite of all the countries she'd visited.
@gerrygallen5911 Surely iran is a beautiful place, especially if you visit it as a tourist. But also the government killed almost 1500 people in the streets in just one summer on protesting against mandatory hijab. I doubt this isn't something someone as a tourist would be shown to.
Absolutely brilliant!.This is a cause that should be embraced with energy not only by the students but also by all decent people of the so called free world! Well done, Bill and team! Way to go! Proud of you!
It should be, but his point really is that Palestinians don't deserve concern or consideration! You see this talking point on many shows. What they always neglect to mention is that the munitions being used to kill Palestinians are provided by the US. Along with billions in weapontry and ammo, the US also gives Israels billions annually. With the exception of may be Egypt because they do get some money, the US has little to no influence on those other countries. Some are considered advesaries!
@@Sloimerto stop the massive Muslim psy op going on, brainwashing the west how Islam is completely harmless while it's entirely incompatible with basic human rights.
This is Bill Maher’s most important monologue ever. Because it is about the rights of literally 50% of the worlds population: women. In most western countries they are treated equally (although there are still some thugs who not do so because of patriarchy opinions) and in the majority of the world they are still oppressed or do not have exact equal rights. Even in Japan there is still a hierarchy thing going on in the work place and women have to follow a man, even when he does the same job at her, he is more worth and the first to speak. It’s ludicrous to me that these college protesters are so blind while claiming so called higher education for themselves at institutions the government pays to spread these false ideas.
I’m not sure it’s the colleges’ fault. They have been slow to respond, then they overcompensated for their prior weakness. These ideas come from social media. I believe they are planted to encourage divisiveness and weaken Biden, honestly.
No its not. Is actually one of the most biased ones He makes you think all palestinians are hamas which is not true thousand of children are being killed *on purpose* that is the protests are about.
First. I've asked a few women in Japan about whether that sort of thing still goes on, and they've all told me it doesn't anymore. Secondly, the patriarchy thing is a myth. Yes, there are men in the West who are thugs and treat women poorly, but as mogznwaz pointed out, they're just bullies. It's not part of society itself. Also, there are plenty of women who are bullies, and we (Western society) have actually over-corrected the problems from pre-first-wave feminism.
@@mogznwazwhile it is true that individual women and small cliques of women can be bullies, they never have the wide-ranging social effects of Patriarchal entitlement. Btw, I believe that most men do not have the Patriarchal mindset; most men are not members of the Dark Tetrad.
I’m someone who has been center/conservative my whole life. Society has shifted so much that I now align with Bill Maher. I’m only 28. Think about that. I’ve been watching these clips for the better part of 6 months now they genuinely make me feel normal.
I've heard a hundred different variations of instances of unadulterated female victimhood, yet the silence of the feminists is deafening. Where two pieties, feminism and multiculturalism, come into conflict, the only way of preserving both is an indecent silence. Theodore Dalrymple
🇺🇸 America 🇺🇸 has never had female president in ~250yrs🤏 The largest Muslim countries like Indonesia, Bangladesh & Pakistan all had females presidents 🤷♀️ To be stupidly simplistic like bill, America is the true gender apartheid state🤏
Victimhood? Feminists? You didn't understand a single thing. Bill just said. Clueless. Your little quotation does not impress. It utterly misses the point. You think women being beaten and killed in the Middle East are whiners? Get a life.
Feminism isn't quiet about this. Wh y do you think states and pri ate initiatives around the World fund education for village girls in the Muslim World, female genitalia mutilation has a super bad rep, and liberal Muslim communities exist?
Comedy has frequently been a medium used to talk about serious issues. It doesn't matter your view on the topic, if the person on stage talking about it can make you laugh. That and comedians don't typically check themselves to make sure they're not offending anyone. If they did their content would be bland and neutered. Combine these two things and you have very real, human takes. Not watered down pc whispers.
Some comedians are curious (always asking why) and observers of human behavior. They identify truths, commonalities and hypocrisies to get laughs. However, some comedians are angry and mean, reinforce stereotypes and try to shock for laughs. Not all are equal.
Comedians are gifted in recognizing ridiculousness and bullshit, so they can make fun of it. Not uncoincidentally, they also tend to have a sense of humor about themselves. Conversely, people who can't take a joke also have no perspective on the radical bullshit they promote.
Intelligent people without the power to control the situation but that can see through the bullshit and make you laugh, rather than cry or scream in anger are VERY valuable to society. The clown is the ONLY one that can safely make fun of the King. So Bill, Jon Stewart, Oliver, Kimmel etc. help keep the lid on.
I agree 100pct with Bill, but as a conservative, I have to point out that we have made similar statements for years. We were harassed, vilified, and called racist, anti-Muslim, and other labels. I hope this can be the start of healing between liberal and conservatives. Both sides have people that have gone too far left or right.
To be fair, I don't know the details of what he said and I know that conservatives are often unjustly criticized as well so maybe we went too far, but some criticism can definitely be warranted.
As a Middle Eastern woman who was born and raised in the region, I wholeheartedly agree with Bill's statement. Every word he said was true. I do not wish for any girl or woman to endure the experiences we have faced.
Excellent. Well said. But we need more voices LIKE YOURS to speak to these protestors that are actually voicing their support for such nonsense! THOSE are the people that NEED to hear what you have to say!
Bless you,
~JSV
What does that have to do with children being slaughtered in Gaza? He’s using the plight of those women to mock protesters, craven and ghoulish
@@birdiegirl1622 Are you for real? By that logic, what about children in WW2 Germany, Japan etc...
@@B0R1S3K Maher is mocking protesters who oppose the slaughter of Kids in Gaza today saying they don’t care about the way women are treated in Gaza, those same women who are victims of sexism are also being slaughtered. It’s an outrageously asinine take. Maher has said the protesters don’t know what they’re protesting, it’s so simple.
@@birdiegirl1622The children in Gaza would not be being killed if the Hamas terrorist were not supported by the people of Gaza and Iran!
Iranian woman here. Thanks for being our voice
If Bill Maher could speak Farsi, he would say "khohesh mikhonam"😎😁
Subtitle: "you're welcome"
I am an atheist. I don't believe in the existence of God. There is insufficient evidence or rational justification to support the belief in any gods or supernatural entities. I rely on reason, logic, and empirical evidence to form my worldview and do not find compelling evidence or arguments to support the existence of god.
Me too.
American Israeli here, I support you!❤
Hes being your voice to distract from what Israelis are doing. Both are wrong but this is his tactic
Thank you Bill Maher!! I am an Iranian woman raised in America and FINALLY someone with a large platform is speaking the truth !!
Salam Khanom. God bless you. I’ve been praying for a change in Iran since the revolution. Hopefully we will see it in our lifetime.
Sister, I’m sorry what you’re going through it’s a sad reality with these poor women in Iran in the Middle East and the Arab empires are going through
I never in my life thought I would subscribe to Bill Maher but I agreed with everything he said. I find that happening more often. Real truth crosses all party lines.
Gender apartheid. Been saying that for years. That might be your best social justice New Rule ever Bill. Way to go
35000 dead not hammas. new old BS .seen any pro hammas signs? bollox billy
You’re so dense
Yes but is is a distraction from the current genocide hapoening
🇺🇸 America 🇺🇸 has never had female president in ~250yrs🤏
The largest Muslim countries like Indonesia, Bangladesh & Pakistan all had females presidents 🤷♀️ To be stupidly simplistic like bill, America is the true gender apartheid state🤏
They are protesting the mass murder of innocent Palestinian women and children. The clueless buffoon Bill Maher is enabling war crimes.
As an Iranian, I could not agree anymore with Bill! Spot on! I have seen the struggles of my mother in Iran and yes it is apartheid. Thanks for speaking out ❤ Woman Life Freedom
you dont know what apartheid is , mo-ron. Fatamericans believe Iranian women dont allow giong to school or work.
>>could not agree more.
Just helping out. English isn't my first language either. I wish you well.
お大事に。
We hear you. We understand, despite the majority who don’t, thanks to virtue signaling.
IT IS TIME THE YOUNG STOPPED COMPLAINING ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE AND START A FIGHT FOR MEN TO CHANGE IN THE MIDDLE EAST.
Free Iran
Iranian women here thanks for being raising our voice bill Maher.. please like my comments. ExMuslim
He couldn't find any other time to raise his voice for Iranian women. It turns out that he pretended to be an atheist while being deeply attached to his Jewish faith. Until now, all the propaganda against Islam was to conceal the terrorist and expansionist politics of his fellow Jews."
Yea but he supports Biden which gave 6billion dollars to the Islamic republic of iran. Know who’s your enemy, he only cares about Israel.
Zion ist liking my Post.. Bill Mahar really care about Iranian woman now..
@@shaunthesheep8328 more than you sheep
Bill demonstrates his heartfelt care for Muslim women by his vehement protests against the slaughter of tens of thousands of INNOCENT Muslim babies and kids who have nothing to do with Hamas’ barbarism…oh wait! SMDH 🤦♀️
Bill Maher has big balls. Takes courage to call out the hypocrisy on the face.
It really does. He has more courage than most of these people
I do not agree with him on so many things fundamentally but he is actually a powerful face in this fucked up world. I remember the days when a classical liberal was just fine, now they’re painted as right.
Good on you Bill
Given that Bill is talking gender here, perhaps we should challenge the notion that courage is inherent in the possession of "balls," big or otherwise. Some of the bravest people in history have been women. The Iranian women standing up to the misogynist creeps tyrannizing their country are among their number.
@@sarahsnowe The etymology of ballsy doesnt come from the balls you're thinking of. from etmyonline: Meaning "courage, nerve" is from 1928. Balls to the wall, however, probably is from World War II Air Forces slang, from the ball that topped the aircraft throttle, thrust to the bulkhead of the cockpit to attain full speed.
Bill Maher isn't married. No woman wants to be with a narcissist boomer.
As a Iranian, I really appreciate what Bill is doing. shedding light on what's happening In Iran. Yes, there is an ongoing war against Iranian women and men who do not want to conform to radicalism, Islamism and fundamentalism dictated by the government.
The problem is he is pretending this is not a thing people are upset about.... The reason so many are protesting the Israeli genocide of Palestinians is that the US helping it happen. They are protesting in the US to stop the US from having a hand in the genocide. They are not saying that yeah subjugating women is fine.... just that the US sending bombs to Israel to kill kids and many of those women he is pretending to care about in this clip.... is not okay.
I am an atheist. I don't believe in the existence of God. There is insufficient evidence or rational justification to support the belief in any gods or supernatural entities. I rely on reason, logic, and empirical evidence to form my worldview and do not find compelling evidence or arguments to support the existence of god..
@@snehashispanda4808no once asked you tho
@@snehashispanda4808So? How does this relate to OP?
Then what about all those young men who were either killed or maimed during the protests? They didn't care? Quit trying to lick Bill Maher's balls and look at the facts
Some years ago, a Swedish pastor told a newspaper about her work with women's rights in Afghanistan. When she got home to Sweden and held lectures about her experiences, white Swedish women came up to her and told her how wrong and racist she was for saying these things.
They're self-righteous individuals who have to be the devil's advocate all the time to feel "relevant"!
That is disgusting but I am not surprised. Such women should have to spend a week in Afghanistan. It would open their eyes.
@@MonicaHelton These 'such women' would probably import the Afghan men who acted in such an appalling manner, then deliberately turn a blind eye to their actions to avoid being accused of being an "-Ist" or a "-phobe".
It is the knee-jerk, bullying accusation that Social Activists use whenever someone is pointing out an actual negative fact about a Non-Western culture. To say FGM is wrong is these crowds, you are labeled an ethnocentric, racist, or even a colonialist or fascist. (This can be traced back to the cultural relativist theories of far-left academics who used any excuse they could to demonize Western, European nations, or at the very least undermine legit criticisms of non-western cultures).
Yeah… sadly it’s difficult to fix stupid
As an Iranian I will confirm Bill Maher is spot on about what he said on the gender apartheid issue in middle east and specifically Iran
They are protesting the mass murder of innocent Palestinian women and children. The clueless buffoon Bill Maher is enabling war crimes.
What bill doesn’t mention, and you apparently don’t know, is the fact that Iran HAD a democratically elected president until 1953, when the United States backed a coup to reinstall the monarchy of the shah, who then went on to kill and quash any opposition voices.
The citizens finally got tired of the dictatorship and overthrew it in favor of the voices that promised them (but failed to deliver) a better life.
Just think, women wore Western fashions with no head covers, drove cars and walked the avenues freely.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iran_coup
DO u not realize by Maher's logic he would support bombing Iran and killing the oppresed women too? Do u think only Hamas is getting killed by the airstrikes and bombings by Israel?
Bill, do you know what a whataboutism is?
@@manitoumimi why are you assuming they don't know that? Lots of people know that. What Iran used to be like doesn't change what it is now and everyone outside the US knows how much the US meddles in other's affairs because a lot of them are on the receiving end
It is about time that someone called out the atrocious treatment of millions of women on this planet. Good on Bill.
He doesnt care about women. He just wants to justify his support for the genocide
Now he just has to point out that things like underage girls getting married to old man by religious nutjobs is also happening in the US way to much about 300.000 girls between 2000 and 2018 alone.So this is not a problem of Islamic or muslim countries this is a problem of religious fundamentalists.
True Nelson Mandela...greatest presidential election ever... If you look at SA today, it is a victory ✌️
Whats even more sad is the reason for the veiling verse
"`Umar bin Al-Khattab used to say to Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) "Let your wives be veiled" But he did not do so. The wives of the Prophet (ﷺ) used to go out to answer the call of nature at night only at Al-Manasi.' Once Sauda, the daughter of Zam`a went out and she was a tall woman. `Umar bin Al-Khattab saw her while he was in a gathering, and said, "I have recognized you, O Sauda!" He (`Umar) said so as he was anxious for some Divine orders regarding the veil (the veiling of women.) So Allah revealed the Verse of veiling. (Al-Hijab; a complete body cover excluding the eyes). (See Hadith No. 148, Vol. 1)"
No normal, rational person would disagree with what he's saying, but he brought it up in the context of pro Palestinian protesters. You did not address Palestine at all or the horrors happening to innocent people in Gaza. Your only comment was that Palestinians living in Israel have full Israeli citizenship. Very disingenuous.
The sad thing here is most Americans know more about The Kardashians
than they do about this topic. Keep up the great work Bill!
This topic is a problem for the Middle East to fix not Americans. So not knowing about it isn't sad for Americans. A country that experiences this kind of treatment and then doing nothing about it, is.
🇺🇸 America 🇺🇸 has never had female president in ~250yrs🤏
The largest Muslim countries like Indonesia, Bangladesh & Pakistan all had females presidents 🤷♀️ To be stupidly simplistic like bill, America is the true gender apartheid state🤏
@@daviddarko5837 So if its a point for the Middle East to fix, why are Americans protesting and involved in Palestine - Israel conflict and Russia - Ukrainian conflict? the double standard is sickening.
@@llennox7915 It's simple...they're idiots.
@@llennox7915Because they choose to be. Why do you care?
As a multicultural living in Iran. All I can say to you @Bill THANK YOU. Wish everyone all around the world could become more educated and STOP following a trend which they dont even understand the meaning of it. Once again THANK YOU
How does your living as a “multicultural” in Iran inform your opposition to pro-Palestinian protests?
Iranians supporting Israel and advocating for the deaths of innocent Palestinians is just wild to me.
@@b.k8051especially ones who are strangely posting on this channel for the first time :P
@@b.k8051 Iranian people stand with Isreal don't let media fool you and cry more
@@Crit1kalMike I am Iranian. I don't stand with Israel. So you claim has been debunked. Don't let whatever that's fooling you fool you and cry even more.
Islamophobia is an oxymoron because having a phobia means having an irrational fear. Fearing Islam is totally rational and hence cannot possibly be called a phobia.
Yet the vast majority liberals in the west continue to vote for open borders and mass Muslim migration.
It will destroy the west, and it will be on the left for facilitating it.
Slavery still exists in the Middle East as well but you don't hear the college brats say anything about that
Not in Palestine though so a straw man? K
Same in some countries in Africa but they don't want to hear about that.
They want to be woke but still wants them iphones cheap
Yes slavery now exists in Libya thanks to Obama and Hillary Clinton.
Technically it isn't legal anymore but woman are essentially slaves in Islam. They have kidnapped and forced into marriage, that is slavery.
The cry in the wilderness from women across the globe is; THANK YOU BILL FOR ACKNOWLEDGING OUR PLIGHT
Yes, ignorant women in the wilderness who like to think of Islam as the boogyman's religion
ZioBill has no sympathy for 40000+ women and children slaughtered by Israel. What about rights of those women???
This Jewish guy said all Muslims are pretty much isis so we know he's islamphobic
O please. 40,000+ women & children slaughtered by Israeel, I have yet to hear Agent Billy of Mo$$ad speak up for those crying women.
Unfortunately, with today's youth. It's falling on deaf ears. Thay're saying it's western propaganda. They're totally clueless. Just like Rep. Rashida Talib.
Iranian here. Just, thank you. FREE OUR COUNTRY!
May you soon have the strength to liberate yourself ✊✌️🇩🇰
Bill doesn't give a shit about you. His only intention is to justify Israels policy.
❤❤
"Justin" doesn't sound Iranian...
🇺🇸 America 🇺🇸 has never had female president in ~250yrs🤏
The largest Muslim countries like Indonesia, Bangladesh & Pakistan all had females presidents 🤷♀️ To be stupidly simplistic like bill, America is the true gender apartheid state🤏
Bill, this is one of your best videos by far! Thank you so much!
When I told my brother that hundreds of millions of women were required by law to wear burquas or be arrested, he dismissively said "most of them don't have a problem with it". I asked him how he knew how Muslim women in dozens of countries feel about it, and he quipped "they would refuse to do it if they didn't want to".
So there you go, women of the world; one American man who never met you, deciding how you all feel.
The college kids siding with Hamas are just as educated.
Why are you lying?
Hundreds of millions?! That's a fallacy.
the point you're both missing here is that how those women feel doesn't enter into the equation. in the west, we care about individual rights. in the rest of the world, not so much.
what college kids are siding with hamass besides yours and maga'ts? Most college people are against isreals war crimes and genocide against Palestinians
He is actually right.
Also, how do you know how a billion plus Muslim women feel around the world?
This is right. I'm so angry that the women in my home country of Iran are suffering. Thank you for bringing sanity to this argument.
so you want to genocide the gazans coz Iran puts burkas on women, interesting. Can you square how the math makes sense?
Had a high-school friend who identified as Persian because of what his family went through to leave.
His father got him and his mom out but didn't make it out himself and was executed.
My friend was 10 when he and his mom made it into the US thanks to his dad's bravery.
He hated what Iran is now for good reason. I see events and geopolitics differently now, too, because of his experience. 😢
My heart aches for the Iranian people. I pray that one day soon Iran will be a free country. And women will have equal rights.
Yeah but my tax dollars don't fund what the Iranian government does.
@@lawrencekagan8688 don't even try to explain these people (and Bill) are dumbasses
Everyone should listen to Yasmine Mohammed’s conversation with Sam Harris, his podcast episode #175, “Leaving the Faith”. She chokes up at one point and thanks him for making her feel *seen* with his TED talk. There is a real tension between privileging religious tolerance and prioritizing gender equality. Let’s not resolve it by taking the wrong side! We can disagree with Islam’s ideas without being racist, but we can’t tolerate religious practice without allowing others to severely curtail the freedoms of and in many cases hurt women. FGM is actually scary common in certain communities. Stand up for women!
Sam talks to everyone except practicing Orthodox Muslims. I wonder why
I second this!
I grew up under forced Islam and Find it more racist when people take the side of men who told me I didn't matter and should shut up because I was a woman. Anyone who supports a religion that tells a 9 year old she's an adult and should obey a husband is an idiot. Any woman who accepts the oppression of hijab is also an idiot.
Islam isnt a race. Its an idealogy. Being bigoted against another persons opinions isnt bigotry.
@@21972012145525 - Because a 'practicing Orthodox Muslim' would separate his head from the rest of his body after shrieking 'Allahu Akbar' at the top of their lungs.
Afghan woman here from Kabul: Many thanks Bill!
I’m sorry, but these poor women are going through sister. I’m sorry what you’ve been going through in Afghanistan.
Prove it
Thank you Bill Maher for standing up for women around the world.
And here in the U.S.
I like this
Don’t speak for me
Hallelujah! This has been my gripe for years--when we withdrew from Afghanistan, when the brave Iranian women stood up, and especially since Oct 7th. This is Bill's most impactful new rules ever!
Lol. We can’t control what other governments do.
@@blackout07blue Tell that to the college students who are protesting.
@@shigeminotoge4514
Israeli government policy hasn’t changed at all.
@@blackout07blue
Exactly, we can’t control the governments of the Middle East, this message should have been sent to the Middle East instead of America.
@@j.r.5983
Exactly, where was the praise from Bill Maher when the college campuses were protesting what he wanted them to.
As an Iranian Canadian woman I thank you for being our voice.
I was shocked that 86% of Egyptian woman have had female genital mutilation.
That is horrible. In Somalia it is 99%.
OML
Do you know how many in Palestine? They seem to never say.
what?? is this true still today??
realy????
We the middle eastern women salute you .
It's good to hear all these approvals
My in laws fled Egypt in the 80s because radical Muslims were targeting Christians. When I met my wife and met her parents, they told me the horrors of Islam.
Lives of Coptic christians are truly hell in egypt, but don't wait for mainstream media to be your ally, they are all hypocrites and will always side with islamist
Islam has many horrors. Most people are unaware of their realities.
Then how come many Christians are living there same can be said about blacks in USA
My mom's best friend left Egypt to work in the US as an au pair. She worked, married an American, and had a family. Never regretted it, either. She wanted to live on her own terms, - _not islam's terms._
@@EyeSeeThruYou good for her Egyptian would like to live on their own terms too and not USA installed government
Maher doesn't always get it right, but he does here. The treatment of women by middle eastern men is disgusting. Where are the marches for that?
So murder > forcing dress. Got it.
@@21972012145525ok bot. do you really think women aren't murdered *every day* in these countries? Did you just conveniently miss the part about honor killings?
where are the marches for that?
well, int he 90s they happened, and in 2022 they happened.
that woman in Iran Bill mentioned? in 2022 there were a whole bunch of protests all over, and int e US, in solidarity with her.
there was a whole movement to try and get the US to make Iran treat women better.
it failed.
why? because w can't do sh_t to Iran. we lost all leverage we had over them when trump killed the deal Obama made.
the only thing we could do would be to invade, and THAT would be a horror show for everyone involved.
but Israel? we still got leverage over them.
those kids Bill is whining about have most likely shifted US policy to save thousands of lives in Gaza that israel would have murdered in their genocide.
which makes Bill's whole essay really stupid.
the kids are smart enough to protests something they might be able to change.
the apartheid of women int eh middle east will never be changed by outside pressure as long as we buy oil from them.
@@21972012145525being deprived of all your rights = a simple dress code.. according to you... got it.
@@21972012145525 Guess you missed the part about honor killings happening so often that they can't even count them, Mr. Bunch-o-numbers bot account. 6:34
Remember back in the day when Bill had a panel on Politically Incorrect talk about this same issue and the one woman on the panel said why is something that happens to woman defended as cultural.
Sad that we are still talking about this decades later
But no one is defending the treatment of women he’s mentioning.
@@lexirowe3151 Because it’s not done with US support. If the US stop backing Israel, that would be a big change
I always wonder why feminists aren’t fighting this rather than things in the west….like manspreading or air conditioner settings in offices.
Because instead of taking international aid to build a country they spent is in a useless war.
@@willhiggins9563 why don't any US Muslim congresswomen who protest everything but this, get elected? Their supporters don't protest it. "It's freedom of religion. We hate Israel & the US". No Dem campus protesters care one bit. Of what Bill mentioned.
Top notch! Love the "Make a Barbie film bout that"...! Great voicing Bill!
In universities it is politically incorrect to criticize any culture other than Western. That's why these issues are systematically ignored.
Students used to be braver than today. University leaderships used to not be cowards.
Because the immigrants cry about being “poor brown minorities” in “white US” and people bow to them and forget on the world stage they are the majority by far.
You guys are making a starwman
This is spot on.. we're supposed to hate ourselves and the country we live in. It's so ass backwards.
Some people have a hard time differentiating culture from race. So they’re reluctant to criticize any non-western culture for fear of being perceived as racist. Even if that culture is engaging in behavior that’s clearly pathological.
The irony is, this inclination is itself a form of racism-as it implies that races and cultures from anywhere but the West should be held to a lower standard than we would hold ourselves. What Thomas Sowell calls “the soft bigotry of low expectations”.
I've never understood that part about Islam. You have to cover yourself to not tempt men to look at you with desire and possibly harm you? Shouldn't the men be working harder on themselves than forcing the women to dress up like ninjas in public?
The Quran does not say that women must cover their hair or faces or wear these black tents. Modesty is required, for men and women in the Islamic faith. What you mentioned is literally written as a commandant; men must lower their gaze and not leer at women & make them feel uncomfortable.
If cults weren't hipocritical sure, but they are, so no.
@raimimira4249 there should be no law requiring a woman to dress "modestly". Stop defending the indefensible
@@raimimira4249 R U crazy? Men in the Middle East don't cover up!
you have not read the Quran. Its noted in the Quran x2 that women must be covered @@raimimira4249
Ex Muslims all thank you for being the smart person that points this stuff out Bill.
Bill Maher is an Islamophobe..... and it's helping improve the wovenebt to liberate women!
🇺🇸 America 🇺🇸 has never had female president in ~250yrs🤏
The largest Muslim countries like Indonesia, Bangladesh & Pakistan all had females presidents 🤷♀️ To be stupidly simplistic like bill, America is the true gender apartheid state🤏
When men must go to battle's front line .. and women don't ... Is that gender apartheid ????
@@kebeleteeek4227 didnt men set that system up?
@@carson1701 It caled NATURE ... Try to defy it .. and see what will happen ..
This should be mandatory viewing in colleges across the country!
I guess most students response will be "this is bad, but... but.... Israel bad", they're so much brainwashed.
This segment should be part of every high school curriculum in the Western world.
They are protesting the mass murder of innocent Palestinian women and children. The clueless buffoon Bill Maher is enabling war crimes.
Because they don't want to actually fight something that is hard. They want to have the support of 99% of social media and the media and win easily
There was a nail, and you hit it on the head. We are a herd species, it's in our nature.
Exactly, so many of these lefty kids are cowards and don't really stand for anything.
THIS 👆👆 Growing up I realized, changing what's genuinely wrong in a society is HARD and challenging. Everything else is just to pat their smug selves on the back.
🇺🇸 America 🇺🇸 has never had female president in ~250yrs🤏
The largest Muslim countries like Indonesia, Bangladesh & Pakistan all had females presidents 🤷♀️ To be stupidly simplistic like bill, America is the true gender apartheid state🤏
First off, THEY DO. Second what Bill Maher here is forgetting is that Israel wants to be treated as the "only democracy in the Middle East. While they are killing 30k civilians. You can be against more than one thing at the same time.
How a society values and treats it's women is a testament to their civility or savegery.
I would call it the mark of civilization. Are your most vulnerable free to live their lives in safety, free to be left alone?
Is that why woman are turning into onlyfans in the West?
@@GcD9179 what civilization(s) accomplished this so far? And why would Bill Maher attack this if it existed in modern times?
Animals, children and the poor as well. The most vulnerable. I’ve heard that too that it’s a measure of a healthy thriving compassionate society.
@@CM-ld3dq As a non-Westerner, I would say the West has accomplished this the most.
And I see that multiculturalism may soon destroy it. You cannot import and then tolerate intolerant cultures without consequences.
This is the most crucial and insightful I've heard from Maher in a long time. The audience is so stunned by the truth they don't know how to respond. It is important to be reminded that Islam is not a humane religion.
I think that’s an overstatement.
@@ealter95 understatement
But yet 380000 dead in Palestine in 7 months 🇵🇸 isn't even worth mentioning 😅😅😅😅
@@gregoryedwardson4032no mention of the aid stolen by their government? Oh
@@gregoryedwardson4032You just made up a fake number. 380,000 Palestinians haven't been killed in the past few months.
Saw this firsthand in places such as Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan some years ago. Religious police would roam areas of downtown Riyadh harassing women if they weren’t covered properly. The plight of women and girls in Afghanistan under the Taliban is appalling. Animals are treated better.
Deployed in '12 to Afghan.
When I came home in '13 and tried to tell people how horrible women are treated over there, literally NOBODY cared. Nobody.
Even when that insanely popular series "The Handmaid's Tale" came out, and women were obsessed with it. They were like "this is what America will be!"
I would look at them and say "are you serious? This is happening RIGHT NOW all over the world, and it's not happening in America."
They would just scoff and say something about me being a bigot.
Logic has not existed in the general public's mind for years.
🇺🇸 America 🇺🇸 has never had female president in ~250yrs🤏
The largest Muslim countries like Indonesia, Bangladesh & Pakistan all had females presidents 🤷♀️ To be stupidly simplistic like bill, America is the true gender apartheid state🤏
Based. It's why woman of the west are doing onlyfans and selling themselves online.
Cover them up
@@JuanAppleseed-ge6tbwesterners are blind to things until it happens to them but by then its too late. I said this years ago but I was told I'm just a puppet for white people.
So I stopped n said they'll learn the truth
Christian sects, such as Fundamentalist Mormons, often treat women poorly. Similarly, Benedictine College's Harrison Butker holds views on women that are as restrictive as those of some radical Muslims or Orthodox Jews. For instance, Orthodox Judaism requires women to wear wigs to cover their hair, a practice with origins in ancient traditions. Historically, Catholic women were also required to cover their heads in church, and some Catholics advocate for a return to this practice. Women are even segregated at the Wailing Wall. These practices are common across many religions, although there are liberal Muslims who advocate for more progressive views on gender.
However, these issues should not be used as arguments to justify the Israeli apartheid state or its actions. People around the world are protesting against Israel and Netanyahu's policies.
MAHER is engaging in a fallacious argument.
More young people should be aware of this.
@alexkiddonen It wouldn't matter. They are just screaming so people will look at them. To feel like they matter. The cause they choose to scream about this week is just an excuse to be loud. No one want's to tackle an actual problem the would be hard to solve. We have no more Mandela's. They aren't even trying to stop anything that's happening in Gaza. Even that would be too hard. They are just trying to force their schools to do something. Doesn't really matter what as long as they feel personally powerful when It's over. Kids at this age are sick in the head. I blame the internet.
Unfortunately, schools are more concerned with training them to think that all evil in the world comes only from European societies.
They don't care because it doesn't fit their leftist agenda and like Bill pointed out, they won't go after a non-white group.
As a young person, we know sexism exists????????????? Literally let women wear whatever the fuck they want, domestic violence is bad, and discrimination in the workplace is disgraceful. I don't see how any of that justifies Israel's war on Gazan infants.
They don't care if it doesn't fit the far-left agenda.
Thanks to Bill for reminding us of the totally unacceptable injustices towards women in the Muslim world.
And towards those in our own country.
“From the river to the sea, all the women shall be free”.
- Bill Maher, 2024
Inspiring words Bill, and I as a 23 year old (conservative, as well) man will support this cause.
For me, this was one of the best new rules videos. Bill's phrase: "...don't even have the right to show their face" is truly haunting. This is mass madness and it is still going on for millions of women worldwide. I'm sorry to say that I have ruled out muslim countries from my list of places to visit in the future, primarily because of avoiding witnessing this inhumane practice. I can't have a good time as a tourist, while people are treated like inferior all around me, like it's a normal thing.
I love the hesitant Am-I-allowed-to-clap vibe whenever Bill presents an uncomfortable truth.
his audiences are the dumbest for some reason
It was a very uncomfortable video to say the least.
Alternatively, people are simply disgusted with an uncomfortable non truth.
@@freddyrodriguez4732What non-truth are you referring to?
@@HunterZolomon He lies that being bombed and starved (what Israel does to women in Gaza) is better than the other stuff women are subjected to in Islamic countries. It's a completely ridiculous argument and it's incomprehensible for me how so many people believe it.
Thank you for speaking for us sane centrists.
Sane leftists as well if not more so.
Hear, hear!
Just a classic misdirect since he's run out of ways to justify a genocide.
Does the US support that hijab oppression with your tax money?
Is hijab oppression worse than having your kids being blown up?
Do people have to protest either everything or nothing?
@@greenderpMaher is a Zionist-first
Bill nailed it here, well done Bill.
He's a Zionist Jew who would defend Israel if it tried to clone Jeffrey Epstein.
I like Bill most of time. He is a brave man saying the right things amidst the wrong people. Well done for speaking the truth.
Saw what you want to say about Maher, NOBODY as mainstream as Maher is saying this & he has been saying it fir decades
Rushdie.
I hugely RESPECT YOU, Mr. Maher ! For speaking the no one wants to speak up about !! Thank you thank you forever, Sir! For these words of courage !
From one of those women ! I’m a witness! It’s ALL true!
South Africa is a complete nightmare now.
as opposed to when?
That's Communism (ANC) for ya.
That's not a counterargument.
What was happening before was terrible.
That it's run by a corrupt government now doesn't negate the horrors of apartheid.
@@johngrono as opposed to before African warlords took over!
@@josephgriffin2388 every nation on earth is capitalist, stop blaming a system that failed 60 years ago for all your problems, your problems come from capitalism and greed and not regulating corporations and the rich, not powerless commies
Visited Saudi Arabia ~15 years ago for professional reasons and witnessed first-hand women walking fully covered in black robes (don't know the name of the clothing, don't want to learn it). And I mean ALL women, not just the local ones. Every woman in the plane we arrived on, as soon as it landed, switched to wearing this.
It was gut wrenching. I suddenly realized that many things that I considered as a given, being born and raised in Europe, are simply not. And with that, how lucky we are now in the West. We were not always like this. 500 years ago we were burning women "because they are witches". But some parts of the world are doing similar things RIGHT NOW.
Less than 500 years ago. 1700s in Europe.
Men were burned as witches too. It wasn't a gendered term back then.
That atrocious outfit is called
abaya!
Why did you find that gut wrenching, but if I see a woman in shorts and a bikini top its cool?? What inherently did you find gut wrenching?
It's already practised in Western European societies! Guess who's busy defending that oppressive crap, Feminists along with muslim men! Traitors busy ruining what they can't live without or create themselves!
BRAVO!!! THIS NEEDS TO BE SHARED AND HEARD EVERYWHERE!
I can't praise you enough for speaking about this disgusting treatment of tens of millions of women around the world!
This cancer that we are allowing to enter and spread into western societies needs to expelled immediately before it's too late...
I do not always agree with Bill Maher. But when you are right you are right. Good for you Bill!
One of his best monologues in a while. Very well done, Bill & crew. 👏🏼
“…from river to the sea…EVERY WOMAN SHALL BE FREE…” 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Now that's a slogan we should support on t-shirts and banners! ❤
And every men should be free too, free of having to raise women spawn thru socialism.
That's a slogan I can get behind
You don’t give a shit about every woman being free. Your interest is deflection.
Except women who is force to wear a hijab?
That description of what it's like wearing a burka is pretty wild. No one can see you. Every interaction might as well be a text message.
During covid plandemic it was hard to converse properly with just your mouth covered.
Well, conservative Islamic cultures don't even allow women to talk to male strangers.
That’s why the youth of today don’t see this is an issue because they don’t need human interaction.
Lol... oh ya.. we practically disappear when we wear a face mask
@@veganconservative1109 beautiful false equivalency.
Amen
Thank you for remembering us Iranians who seemed to be often forgotten.
Not your biggest fan.. but you're earning my respect and attention, and I enjoy your humor. This was brilliant! Bravo!! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Now, there is only one country in the Middle East where a woman, Jewish, Christian, Muslim or any other religion can choose her own dress code... Care to guess which one?
lebanon? correct, very free and open society, lovely people
@@lm_b5080You mean the country that has hardly any Jews and is a bedrock for murderous jihadists like Hezbollah?
The country in the Middle East where Arabs enjoy the most liberty is Israel.
Only in Ethical Free Democratic Israel 🇮🇱 are all genders, race and religion equal and live in freedom 🇮🇱💖🙏🏻🎗🕊
Unfortunately they are protesting against that very country, but they're too stupid and ignorant to know that.
I admire Bill for doing this video. The moments of silence are actually terrifying
This video is just a distraction from the genocide happening in Palestine. Very irrelevant lol.
Bill has had some "hits & misses" , but he DEFINITELY hit the mark with this one!
They are protesting the mass murder of innocent Palestinian women and children. The clueless buffoon Bill Maher is enabling war crimes.
They don’t want to fight something if they can’t blame the Jews.
exactly… No jews, no news
Where were the protests when ISIS (essentially the same as Hamas) murded countless Yizids in Syria?
Where are the protest for the constantly murdered and oppressed Kurds?
Nah mate, can‘t blame the jews for that so no news here
Right on.
BINGO!!!
This breaks my heart. This is probably one of the best videos Bill has ever done. I hope many young people see it.
It is a distraction from the genocide that is happening
The same people that call other people “Islamophobic” are the same that will bash Christianity without flinching.
Yup, else they'd still be teaching the sun revolves around earth
they spring from the same fairy tale
They both have a lot of 'splaining to do, especially when it comes to women's rights.
They're both a joke
Bash them both - Islam is worse, but Catholics are also sexist
We have a small store in immigrant neighborhood of San Diego. The Afghan women working there quit because their mosque said women working outside of their homes is against Islam.
Oh so now you're going to shoehorn in the immigrant citizens of a cou try we occupied for 2o years ? 20 after Bin Laden was eliminated ? .do you have ZERO perspective ?
Immigrants should be required to sign a document acknowledging that in the West, they are aware that women have the same rights and freedoms as men. They must agree to abide by all laws that enforce womens rights, and be told that failure to abide by such laws will result in deportation. Don't like that, then Don't come.
That's very ambitious of you but how about laws against abuse such as female genital mutilation? We actually have laws against that in the United States but when the cases come up, the sleazy judges are simply paid off and the FGM continues. So it's not just a matter of knowing it's a matter of adhering to the laws of the land which doesn't even happen, so we have at least a million little American Muslim girls who have suffered the same fate as the little girls of Indonesia because our judges are corrupt
@@photostockcanadaIt’s a difficult thing to do in a country that considers freedom of religion bedrock.
This is abuse.
On behalf of all women, thank you!🇨🇦
"non-white people can do bad things too"
Yeah we've been saying this for years.
Perhaps now that Bill saying it more people will listen 🙄😔🙏🇺🇸
Almost nobody really thinks otherwise. He is fighting a straw-man he created because it’s easy.
Nope, the vast majority of liberals and conservatives hate this man so anything he says goes over their heads
Bill Maher knows where he stands. He either
A. Supports the left because he knows it's good for him. Or
B. He Truly is ignorant. His intellect is only a perception by a mass group of people. A group of people that for many years of my youth I was a part of until I reach the age of reason.
@@tipsyt1909 Weird that conservatives hate him they tend to defend their own in lock step unison.... OH never mind he is a conservative that is critical of dear leader....
@@skillcoiler I'm nominally a conservative... I don't h8 Maher. Sometimes, he's actually funny... like his comment about pitching tents in this video... but Maher is not, in any way, conservative.
This hit me hard. Those quotes about being disconnected, dam. What is wrong with humanity.
Greed and Religion. The two things that WILL terminate the species, a process that is near completion. WITHOUT a World War that depletes ALL the resources remaining so we cannot recover, the planet itself is now responding to the poison we have inflicted and continue to inflict upon it.
They are protesting the mass murder of innocent Palestinian women and children. The clueless buffoon Bill Maher is enabling war crimes.
Thank you for saying these things. I’m an old woman I remember being a possession in this country, those poor women. We need to help them
We need to help ourselves first or we’re on our way to ending up just like them! VOTE ALL BLUE! ROVEMBER IS COMING! 🌊🇺🇸💙
No, we need to get out of other countries, stop supporting dictators, and let them find their own way.
@@jonn.5568considering all the damage America did for 40 plus years, you need to fix the shit you made worse
@@Beth-zg6gbdemocrats are weak and only like to talk and feel good. They don't bring solutions.
Vote blue is a joke at this point.
The blue only use people's identity or culture against them n then use us as clubs.
The red does the same but they generally bring results. Do I like the Republicans?no but I like them more than people who don't get shit done.
I'm from Aotearoa, female, I support women worldwide not for feminism, just to be a female, a daughter, a sister, a wife, a mother, an aunt, a grandmother - simple😊
Ive spent a lot of time in the SW Asia.
Most women in the West have no clue how well they have it..
Interesting that you say being more equal is "how well we have it" like we should be grateful. Yeah we're so so fortunate that we aren't beaten and killed. It's like winning the lottery. SMH.
Afghanistan? India? What country is sw Asia?
I grew up there, and I agree.
@@---Dana---- ''Yeah we're so so fortunate that we aren't beaten and killed. It's like winning the lottery. SMH.''
YES, Dana. YES, you are very fortunate not to be beaten, raped, and killed. Because that is normal for women all around the world. How can you be so dense?
This whole world is hell for women, and the West is the most habitable place, even if it isn't perfect. So, yes. You should be grateful that you weren't born in a place where women are treated worse than cattle. You should be grateful that you are allowed to show your face in public and not beaten by your husband whom you were forced to marry at the age of 9.
None of these things should be taken for granted. Women have been oppressed for thousands of years, and if the light goes out in the West, that opression will continue for thousands more. Don't you want to end it?
Been all over the world. What the west does to woman is train them that they are forever oppressed and forever the victims of men. Morgan Stanley predicts by 2030 50% of woman between ages of 25 and 45 will be single and childless
The silent chirping of crickets....thank you for video opening up people's eyes in America. And hopefully open the hearts to the forgotten women that feel invisible & made to dress as if invisible... to rest of the world. With no voice or person to appeal to change this.
@Bill Mahr while I disagree with you on a varying degrees of subjects. I whole heartingly agree with you on this. Thank you for bringing this to your audience and on line following.
But because it happens to women ... ignored by nearly everyone. Thank you, Mr. Maher, for bringing this nearly worldwide crime forward. The fact that your audience was silent at various critical moments shows how "off the radar" women's suffering and oppression is to people everywhere -- men and women, of every age and class, of every country and creed. Well done, Mr. Maher. Well done.
One of Bill's best monologues.
BRAVO!! Thank you for speaking up about those horrific crimes against women! ❤ 😢😢😢😢😢😢
And what about all those poor kids being slaughtered?
Except the gender oppression he mentioned has nothing to do with the horrific genocide going on right now. And that’s what the students are protesting. That genocide Includes the utter annihilation of the women and children you care about, and the entire infrastructure that could possibly sustain human life for women, men, or children.
I hope you see that Maher is dangling gender laws of governments in entirely not-Palestine countries (many only in power with active US support, btw) to take attention away from the horror being carried out by Israel /US right in front of us, with our tax dollars. His writing staff, presumably younger and with access to more recent information than his romanticized Exodus-novel view of the world, really ought to save this guy from himself.
For starters his more educated staffers could remind their Islamophobic boss that for many decades the main org representing all Palestinians, the PLO, was a SECULAR, nationalist organization. They had many Marxist groups in their coalition, for f’s sake.
It was only after that coalition caved to US/Israel bad-faith promises, making life for Palestinian women and men even more of a living hell than their already hellish and illegal conditions of occupation, that most Palestinians turned to Hamas. It was the only group that was still fighting for basic Palestinian safety and sovereignty.
What if they choose to wear it?
@@teynaranjas788for example the infrastructure you point: Hamas used billions to build more tunnels than New York subways. That money could have been used for infrastructure. Now it is used on killing… and of course a few billions are with Hamas leaders sitting comfortably in Qatar.
@@teynaranjas788never read so many misinformation in one comment😮😅 Did Hamas pay you for this??😂
Thank you Bill… there is a profound lack of critical inquiry/analysis among those who are outraged about the Gaza/Isreal situation… so important to look at the deeper issues…
Bro bill doesnt care about irans woman but whatboutism
you just complimented Bill for exactly what he gets wrong.
@@yasinaware9939you don’t care about them either. So what’s your point
You are so right
I'm a westerner who grew up in North Africa. Spot freaking on.
Where exactly ??
👍
As an Iranian, I always wished that this college kids spend one month in my country and how we live here they would figure it all.
🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 This is exactly why the US troops got humiliated & lost in both Afghanistan & Iraq 😖😖😖 He thinks all Muslims & all Arabs r crap & they r all the same🤦♀️ Bill’s laziness & simplistic is actually hurting Israel 🤷♀️ Does he know that there r many Christians among the Palestinians?! Does he know why Hamas, Arab Sunnies, has been allied with Iran, Persian Shiites?! Does he know even the deference between the Palestinians themselves & why Fatah has clashed before with Hamas?! 🤷♀️
Yeah paying mutah for sex 😂😂😂.
I have spent several weeks in Iran. Having visited approx. 60 - 70 countries over 60 odd years I class Iran among the friendliest, if not The friendliest I've visited. Pleasant, charming people who love to have visitors into their homes. A Chinese travel writer (female), who wrote for Lonely Planet, told me that Iran was her favourite of all the countries she'd visited.
@gerrygallen5911 Surely iran is a beautiful place, especially if you visit it as a tourist. But also the government killed almost 1500 people in the streets in just one summer on protesting against mandatory hijab. I doubt this isn't something someone as a tourist would be shown to.
@@nimaghomri Yep typical champagne liberal response from that person you replied to
Absolutely brilliant!.This is a cause that should be embraced with energy not only by the students but also by all decent people of the so called free world! Well done, Bill and team! Way to go! Proud of you!
This video should be mandatory in Colleges!!!
This video should be mandatory viewing
Why.
See Gen Z: you shouldn't care that women and children are being bombed and starved to death because burqas
It should be, but his point really is that Palestinians don't deserve concern or consideration! You see this talking point on many shows.
What they always neglect to mention is that the munitions being used to kill Palestinians are provided by the US. Along with billions in weapontry and ammo, the US also gives Israels billions annually. With the exception of may be Egypt because they do get some money, the US has little to no influence on those other countries. Some are considered advesaries!
@@Sloimerto stop the massive Muslim psy op going on, brainwashing the west how Islam is completely harmless while it's entirely incompatible with basic human rights.
@@hillsane9262 Except, this video isn't ONLY about Palestinians.
This is Bill Maher’s most important monologue ever. Because it is about the rights of literally 50% of the worlds population: women. In most western countries they are treated equally (although there are still some thugs who not do so because of patriarchy opinions) and in the majority of the world they are still oppressed or do not have exact equal rights. Even in Japan there is still a hierarchy thing going on in the work place and women have to follow a man, even when he does the same job at her, he is more worth and the first to speak. It’s ludicrous to me that these college protesters are so blind while claiming so called higher education for themselves at institutions the government pays to spread these false ideas.
No, not ‘patriarchy opinions’. Bullying opinions. Bullies want to feel powerful - women can be bullies too you know.
I’m not sure it’s the colleges’ fault. They have been slow to respond, then they overcompensated for their prior weakness. These ideas come from social media. I believe they are planted to encourage divisiveness and weaken Biden, honestly.
No its not. Is actually one of the most biased ones
He makes you think all palestinians are hamas which is not true thousand of children are being killed *on purpose* that is the protests are about.
First. I've asked a few women in Japan about whether that sort of thing still goes on, and they've all told me it doesn't anymore.
Secondly, the patriarchy thing is a myth. Yes, there are men in the West who are thugs and treat women poorly, but as mogznwaz pointed out, they're just bullies. It's not part of society itself. Also, there are plenty of women who are bullies, and we (Western society) have actually over-corrected the problems from pre-first-wave feminism.
@@mogznwazwhile it is true that individual women and small cliques of women can be bullies, they never have the wide-ranging social effects of Patriarchal entitlement.
Btw, I believe that most men do not have the Patriarchal mindset; most men are not members of the Dark Tetrad.
I’m someone who has been center/conservative my whole life.
Society has shifted so much that I now align with Bill Maher. I’m only 28. Think about that.
I’ve been watching these clips for the better part of 6 months now they genuinely make me feel normal.
I'm only 32 and feel the same. Can't believe things have shifted like this
Thank you, Bill, Maher!
I've heard a hundred different variations of instances of unadulterated female victimhood, yet the silence of the feminists is deafening. Where two pieties, feminism and multiculturalism, come into conflict, the only way of preserving both is an indecent silence.
Theodore Dalrymple
🇺🇸 America 🇺🇸 has never had female president in ~250yrs🤏
The largest Muslim countries like Indonesia, Bangladesh & Pakistan all had females presidents 🤷♀️ To be stupidly simplistic like bill, America is the true gender apartheid state🤏
Victimhood? Feminists? You didn't understand a single thing. Bill just said. Clueless. Your little quotation does not impress. It utterly misses the point. You think women being beaten and killed in the Middle East are whiners? Get a life.
Just like Biden has no say over what Netanyahu chooses to do, American feminists will never be able to change afghanistan. No matter what they say.
Feminism isn't quiet about this. Wh y do you think states and pri ate initiatives around the World fund education for village girls in the Muslim World, female genitalia mutilation has a super bad rep, and liberal Muslim communities exist?
Probably the most important 10 minutes of television of the decade
That is what the students are protesting. Protect Humanity. Free from Colonialism. Free from Ethnic Cleansing. Free from Ethnic Cleansing.
OMG! This just might be my favorite New Rules EVER! Bravo Bill and team!!! SPOT FUCKING ON!
Thank you for pulling the lens to where we actually need it!
Thank you for doing this editorial, Bill. As usual, you are tuned into the issues that really matter.
Ya I mean he's basically ignoring a genocide which the united states is funding but ya he's super tuned in and totally not a zionist.
What does anything he's saying have to do with a genocide happening?
"Conflict schmonflict, casualties schmasualties, what about the fact other countries haven't bought into at least the first wave of Feminism?" 😏
Thanks dude. Points well taken
Question, why is it that comedians seem to have the most rational take on society? It’s not just Bill Maher, but the whole industry.?
Comedy has frequently been a medium used to talk about serious issues. It doesn't matter your view on the topic, if the person on stage talking about it can make you laugh.
That and comedians don't typically check themselves to make sure they're not offending anyone. If they did their content would be bland and neutered.
Combine these two things and you have very real, human takes. Not watered down pc whispers.
Some comedians are curious (always asking why) and observers of human behavior. They identify truths, commonalities and hypocrisies to get laughs. However, some comedians are angry and mean, reinforce stereotypes and try to shock for laughs. Not all are equal.
Comedians are gifted in recognizing ridiculousness and bullshit, so they can make fun of it. Not uncoincidentally, they also tend to have a sense of humor about themselves. Conversely, people who can't take a joke also have no perspective on the radical bullshit they promote.
Intelligent people without the power to control the situation but that can see through the bullshit and make you laugh, rather than cry or scream in anger are VERY valuable to society. The clown is the ONLY one that can safely make fun of the King. So Bill, Jon Stewart, Oliver, Kimmel etc. help keep the lid on.
TOTALLY AGREE!!! SO GRATEFUL FOR THE COMEDIANS, NOT JUST FOR MAKING US LAUGH, BUT FOR BRAINS AND HEART!!
It's way worse than he describes.
I agree 100pct with Bill, but as a conservative, I have to point out that we have made similar statements for years. We were harassed, vilified, and called racist, anti-Muslim, and other labels. I hope this can be the start of healing between liberal and conservatives. Both sides have people that have gone too far left or right.
Bill did it for years.
@@omerozturk8272 Yes he did. But he learned. So let's move on.
I wish it could, but you know it won't.
I mean, some conservatives were and are actually racists though. He doesn't have a problem with calling out actual racism.
To be fair, I don't know the details of what he said and I know that conservatives are often unjustly criticized as well so maybe we went too far, but some criticism can definitely be warranted.
Thank you, Bill. Thank you for standing up for my rights as a mother and woman.
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You can tell he's educating when you hear several moments of silence, no claps no laughter.
Thank you for speaking up about this. Please help combat the stupidity epidemic going on now