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1) Is it all Egyptian women or the urban elites? U sure?

2) If you want to point a finger somewhere, point it at your men.  If they didn't support this, the idea of covering women wouldn't get very far. [/quote]

I am the Egyptian pp, and my family was as far from urban elites as you can imagine, both geographically and culturally.  We're also Christian, so you can't point at "my" men.[/quote]
Then your family never had to cover, and neither do you, now.[/quote]

I never had to "cover" but I could never go outside with clothes above the knee or a sleeveless top.  I was constantly stared at by all kinds of people and heckled by men and treated like shit.   Going outside by myself became a huge chore.  My mother, who grew up in a village where most people didn't even have electricity, felt no such pressure in her youth.  The culture of the majority affects everyone, pp.[/quote]
I'm sure it did, and this is why I'm saying that if men didn't heckle before and are heckling now, this is where your finger should be pointing.

I also am kinda having trouble believing your mom tooled around in a miniskirt in an Egyptian village with no electricity when she was a young marriageable girl.  Just saying. [/quote]

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