Why is she lying about our culture?

[Abdixakim]

 

[Mohmed]

There isn't a unified centralized culture. The Somali experience varies from person to person (depending on their background, region, and personal circumstances) and that is pretty amazing. But that doesn't invalidate her experiences, like with any patriarchal society there is bound to be widespread misogyny.

 

[novanova]

Some of the minorities have a different view on these things.. She’s benadiri (cadcad). The mobility and participation in public life of their women was limited pre-war and still is (from what I’ve heard). There’s a famous benadiri makeup artist called Maryan Ahmedey that discusses this.

 

[novanova]

There isn't a unified centralized culture. The Somali experience varies from person to person (depending on their background, region, and personal circumstances) and that is pretty amazing. But that doesn't invalidate her experiences, like with any patriarchal society there is bound to be widespread misogyny.

There absolutely is. Ethnic somalis do not have this culture.

 

[Abdixakim]

There absolutely is. Ethnic somalis do not have this culture.

I lived in both bari and Sanaag and in both places girls and boys went to school.

 

[Juliet]

I don't like the idea of cad cads speaking for us , they have a different daqan and I'd hate to see their Asian culture of men being overly involved in women's business associated with us.

This is considered ceeb and effeminate in *ethnic* Somali culture.