Comments on: She knows them better than they know themselves

By: caf

caf — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 06:26:12 +0000

There was a massive barney on this article over at The RiotACT.

By: Ultrapeach

Ultrapeach — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 02:45:38 +0000

The massive problem I have with this is that she pretends to have a vaguely feminist aim here. But wait…
“…designed to render her shapeless and inhuman…”
“Covering women like this, and rendering them sexless and shapeless…”
“For a woman to argue she feels more comfortable hidden beneath her burka, away from the gaze of men, is unacceptable…”

So, women should be shapely and sexy… kinda like… oh, the way a lot of Western women dress? Shapely, sexy and willing to put up with the gazes from men that dressing like this might bring… sounds so liberating! Nothing at all like ‘gender apartheid’. (Let’s see, do men tend to wear sexy, fitted garments most of the time?)

As for that stuff about disrespecting ‘our’ culture… ugh.

By: twobob

twobob — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:57:50 +0000

I dont like the Burka. I especially dont like seeing women wearing the Burka and sunglasses. I EVEN MORE ESPECIALLY DISLIKE seeing women wearing the Burka and sunglasses being escorted through dark areas by men.
But most of all I dislike being told what to do by somebody who is not in any way affected by what I am doing. Let them be is the simple answer to this. Eventually they will realise the foolishness of their ways and if they never do or if it disturbs you to see it then look the other way.
I will never understand the mentality of those who wish to impose their will upon people who are in no way at all affecting them. I think they pose a bigger problem to a peaceful society that do those who they seek to control.

By: zombie mao

zombie mao — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:28:56 +0000

Lee is correct.

Banning is pointless, even harmful. We don’t ban ladies of the brethren, or christadelphians or any other church/cult from wearing long dresses and head scarves.

By: savvas jwnhs

savvas jwnhs — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:26:44 +0000

Virginia first came to prominence a few years ago when she derided the ‘femo-leftist’ upbringing she had and how it has now cost her her child bearing years.

By: Lee Harvey Oddworld

Lee Harvey Oddworld — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:02:14 +0000

Burqa-wearing might be outdated and humiliating but having loudmouthed Westerners (decadent wine-swilling porn-loving Westerners!) giving finger-waving lectures is hardly the way to challenge it — in fact, it very likely drives people even deeper behind the barricades. And that’s something the Right just can’t get through its collective head.

By: RobJ

RobJ — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:01:28 +0000

If a woman wants to wear a burqa why shouldn’t she?

If a husband is making his wife wear a burqa then the issue isn’t the burqa, it’s an issue of spousal abuse, an issue that isn’t confined to Muslims by a long shot. I wonder how many ‘western’ men insist their partners dress in a particular way? What’s the difference?

Now, whilst I maintain a womans right to wear a burqa I also beleive that she should remove it for a driver licence photo (I beleive this had recently been an issue in the US) or forego the right to gain a drivers licence.

I think it’s none of the govts business dictating what we can or cannot wear, then again such a populist reaction from Sarkozy doesn’t surorise me.