When Western media sought quotes from the women, they frequently heard a Western-style feminist refrain: “These laws would make women into a kind of property.” In the West, the counterpoint to the notion of woman as property has been a highly individualistic demand for personal autonomy – decision-making based primarily on a woman’s own wishes, rather than as wife, mother, community member, or worshipper.
当西方媒体采访游行妇女的时候，他们经常会听到与西方式女权主义类似的观点：“这部法律会把女人变成一种财产。”在西方，把女人当作财产的说法对应着高度个性化的个人自主权要求——即按照妇女自身的愿望做出决定，而不顾及她作为妻子、母亲、社会成员或宗教信徒的社会角色。