[quote=CONCHO]I believe that my experience living as a middle-class US citizen has given me the insight to decide what is right and wrong for other people. I think women shouldn’t have to wear funny, loose-fitting ghost outfits that cover most of their bodies. That would be objectifying them. Instead, they should be liberated and wear minimal, revealing clothing and tattoos showing how liberated they are. Body piercings are nice as well. Such liberated, tattooed, minimally-clothed women are thus freed from being objects and can express their freedom to rub themselves on me without fear of reprisal from an oppressive, sexist system.
Unless they are fat of course, and then they should be forced to cover up as much as possible.[/quote]
Spot on! Equal in humor and irony to the frivolity and banality of the matter.
A political storm in a double standard tea cup. The niqab, and burka are worn by few Muslim women, but they have morphed into the female equivalent of the terrorist balaclava, by media images and reinforced by the so-called “clash of civilizations”. Politicians merely pander to popular opinion in such (most) matters. There’s probably little more to it that.
