Iraq’s official media regulator has reportedly banned the terms “homosexual” and “homosexuality” on all media and social media platforms and is instead mandating the usage of the term “sexual devia…

    • @jonne@infosec.pub
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      1611 months ago

      Like, are they going to remove the gender field from their identity forms too? Why would you ban a common word?

  • El Barto
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    1411 months ago

    I thought it said Sexual Diva lol, I want to be a Sexual Diva damn it!

    • BraveSirZaphod
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      811 months ago

      Hell, Arabic itself has gendered nouns.

      أسماء عربية هي مؤنثة أو مذكرة

    • DarkGamer
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      411 months ago

      Operation Iraqi Oppression, (only it’s religious this time.)

  • @Knusper@feddit.de
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    411 months ago

    Was the Iraq War not also officially to combat religious fundamentalists? And now you hear these kind of news from Iraq and from Florida.

  • Haus
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    211 months ago

    Ostriches ban media reports of heads not being in sand.

  • NXTR
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    211 months ago

    What’s interesting about homophobia in Iraq and West Asia in general is that it was originally imported by the British during their colonial rule. Prior to this these countries were much less strict about homosexuality. It was still frowned upon at certain points in time, but not violently persecuted. After these countries gained independence they stuck with the British stance regarding homosexuality. Ironically, western nations becoming more open about same sex relationships made fundamentalists in these former colonies even more homophonic and violent because it had the appearance of going against western hegemony (despite homophobia still being firmly engrained into western society).

  • @maleek@lemmy.my.id
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    011 months ago

    I think they banning kind of lgbtq, and im not sure because the arab it self has gender pronounces, CMIIW.