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

[michaleen.livejournal.com]

One purpose of the "black bag" was that it suppoesdly prevents women -- and indirectly men -- from competing through ostentacious displays, potentially leading to unnecessary conflicts among both sexes. It fails, because instead the women wear tinkly gold jewelry, so that the sound penetrates the outer garments where the sight of their father's or husband's wealth cannot. I was told that you'd see old women, sometimes, going down the street, supported on both sides by attendants, while wearing so much gold that they could barely shuffle thier feet and actually clanked as they passed.

Another unintended consequence is that many men are prevented from entertaining male friends in their own home, because their wife runs around in a Danskin leotard all day and refuses to put on the black bag, just so he can socialize with his friends. My employer's neighbor had to build a second house in the back yard, because of his wife's refusal. I was told this sort of thing is very common in the Magic Kingdom. Most of the men these folks knew were generally more opppressed than oppressor.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

The burkha is an expression of puritanism- which is a noble ideal, but unworkable- because human nature rebels against it- and the only way of enforcing it is through the machinery of the police state.

[michaleen.livejournal.com]

Well said. As an American, it's sometimes difficult to see puritanism as a noble ideal, but you are quite correct, nonetheless.