The Red Tent Movement

[Anonymous]

Sorry. You will never convince me (and many American women) that it's OK for a culture to deem that women's heads, hair, eyes, ankles, what have you, should be covered - unless the men in the culture dress similarly. Otherwise it's a sexual double standard. Plain and simple.

And that's OK. You don't have to convince me. You can wear whatever you want and I can think whatever I want about it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I do not want to tell my daughter that she is now a woman, at the age of 11 or 12 when she gets her period. We are still children when we start menstruating. Having to learn to deal with a pad doesn't signal it's time to have babies, or move out, or vote, or any of the other real milestones. Life is more complicated than some stupid biology.

I'm hoping that by the time my daughter reaches this age, we'll have a safe and reliable way of turning our periods off. That's what I would have wanted as an 11-year-old.

Amen to that!! Although I've read that having a period reduces some kinds of cancer...or is it not having a period (ie. being pregnant) reduces the cancers?

[csabdalla]

Dude...I still that way of 45!! LOL. Wish I could turn my period off, that only happened in the Marine Corps where it just simply stopped and it was GREAT!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sorry. You will never convince me (and many American women) that it's OK for a culture to deem that women's heads, hair, eyes, ankles, what have you, should be covered - unless the men in the culture dress similarly. Otherwise it's a sexual double standard. Plain and simple.

And that's OK. You don't have to convince me. You can wear whatever you want and I can think whatever I want about it.

Some Muslim women CHOOSE to dress this way, believe it or not.

[Anonymous]

A period party...ehhh...no.

In my mind I see a red velvet cake with tampon candles, and girls are sitting squeamish around the table remembering "the first time --OMG-- I was in the jacuzzi and OMG the water bubbled blood it was soooo GROSS."

[csabdalla]

Anonymous wrote:Sorry. You will never convince me (and many American women) that it's OK for a culture to deem that women's heads, hair, eyes, ankles, what have you, should be covered - unless the men in the culture dress similarly. Otherwise it's a sexual double standard. Plain and simple.

And that's OK. You don't have to convince me. You can wear whatever you want and I can think whatever I want about it.

Whoever said I need to convince you of anything? Apparently you know that the there are requirements for modesty upon both men and women. If you actually WANTED to know something rather than be willfully ignorant and just regurgitate what you've been spoon fed about other peoples belief beyond the eye level you would actually be a more substantive individual with a global understanding. I'm free to think whatever I want about you as well.

And by the way, I am an American woman. I just happen to also be Muslim. The two are not mutually exclusive, despite popular opinion.