the Iranian military attacked a crowd of protesters, killing ~88 and injuring between 205-8,000. The violence increased the unrest, leading to a general strike and the Shah fleeing the country in January 1979.
The massacre, known as Black Friday, began when thousands of protesters gathered in Tehran's Jaleh Square for a religious demonstration, unaware that the government had declared martial law a day earlier due to widespread political unrest.
Some sources estimate that 4,000 people were shot down by tanks, guns, and military helicopters. The deaths were described as the pivotal event in the Iranian Revolution that ended any "hope for compromise" between the protest movement and regime of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.
The massacre led to widespread protests, and a general strike in October shut down the petroleum industry that was essential to the administration's survival. The Shah fled Iran in January 1979, clearing the way for the Iranian Revolution, led by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
Black Friday: The Massacre That Ignited a Revolution in Iran
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9 of his points are just Less Boob in TV and Movie and Game. Meanwhile the accessibility of full on pornography has never ever been higher. It's not like its the pre internet days where you had movie tits and porn left in the forest presumably by horny hobgoblin and dryads. Nudity or close to it has become less of a way to exploitatively make money in film, TV and vidya partially cause you can just Google search any sexual act imaginable and get many many results. The implications of this are a whole other discussion to be had, but from the point of view of a guy like this...why is he so mad that women arent being sexually exploited as much as they used to be in film and TV and why video games have somewhat gotten away from the blatantly marketed towards AJ Soprano style of the early to mid 2000s when you can literally just watch porn now really speaks to a deeper misogyny than just Man Wanna See Boob. They need to see it in contexts that are exploitative. I mean, porn is as well but it's a bit different than making an actress do a topless scene or weird shower or sex scene loke was so prevalent back in the day or she doesn't get the role in a non porn movie. Its like watching someone who as afar as they know freely agreed to fucking on camera isn't sleazy enough and there needs to be an extra layer of gross. I say this as someone who likes exploitation movies and am totally fine with nudity and sexuality in non pornographic movies and a lot of my favorite movies go really fucking far with it, I really like David Lynch. The reason he can do it and a few others can is cause it doesnt ever feel exploitative unless you're Roger Ebert in the 80s and often doesnt feel even close to arousing, when it does, it really fucking (Naomi Watts getting horny for Dougie is like..silly hot) does but it's done in a way that it's the actors showing their chops, he made really damn sure it's a comfortable and collaborative experience where the actors have come away very positively because it created an environment where they could explore those angles of performance in a safe and comfortable way, and actors do enjoy when they can tap into a new thing. You gotta really hate women to think this is an essential part of living
I think it's probably a case of someone who is really uncomfortable navigating a sense of sexuality that is different from the already very warped and exploitative one he grew up with. Capital absorbing and coopting feminism took on the idea of sexual freedom and made it the freedom to sell women's bodies with the veneer of empowerment (much like how free exchange of goods and services makes capital free but takes away individuals' freedom). The free availability of sexual gratification probably feels really weird to someone who sees the world with a more 1960s lens, where it's more about territorialization and exclusive domination.
I agree and think everything I said still totally stands.
yeah I'm just adding on :)
Cool. I guess I didn't make certain things as clear as I thought that you did. The fact they cant accept this veneer of empowerment and just enjoy hot ladies speaks to a deep and cruel darkness. It's some Blue Velvet kinda shit where its no good unless they know a woman is being harmed. They disguise it as being old timey and trad but in the end, that's what it is.