10 Reasons To wear the Burkha

[poliphilo]

10 Reasons To Wear The Burkha

1.  To honour your parents.
2.  To piss your parents off
3.  To honour men
4.  To piss men off
5.  To make a political point
6.  To make a religious point
7.  Because you are a subjugated housefrau
8.  Because you are a radical feminist
9.  To disappear
10.To stand out.

Comments

[red-girl-42.livejournal.com]

I like this.

Recently I was thinking about American outrage over the Burkha while looking at dress codes for my son's school. Although I think the Burkha is excessively restrictive and, as a claustrophobe, I'd rather slit my wrists than wear one, I also think we fail to see that we also have legal requirements about what you have to cover up here. I can't walk out in public naked, or bare chested. I will get arrested. Why? Why is it okay to say I'm not allowed to expose my breasts, but it's horrifying to say that a women can't expose her hair? Qualitatively what is the difference?

I do recognize the element of sexism in Sharia law, and I certainly think it's taken way to extremes, but still, we DO have notions about what is "inappropriate" to wear, and we are more restrictive of women than men in that as well.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

That's a good point.

It's always women's clothing that we get into such a tizzy about. It's always women's self-presentation we want to control- in one way or another.

The female body is a battleground.