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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]

It kind of doesn't matter what you believe, what matters is the truth.  And that was the truth- people could wear what they wanted and people were respectful.  And the attitudes of the people there are everybody's responsibility.  Who raised the young men who are now heckling and harassing women?  Mothers.  Who placed the responsibility of men's sexual urges on women?  Religious authorities.  If you think these changes are unrelated to the hijab and Islamic fundamentalism, I have a bridge I'd like to sell you.[/quote]

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