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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You confuse exposure with liberation. The things that you "ought" to be happy about is that women in these photos are working or studying or reading. Not that they are wearing the outfits that meet your approval. It's not your business how they decide to dress.  What if there was a photo of a niqabi surgeon, would she not be evolved enough for you?  You don't own other women's bodies. [/quote]
I am posting this AGAIN from earlier in the thread because seriously, why re-write the same point over and over:

[quote]It absolutely is my business how they (women) dress. It is my business when I go to the country where my parents where born, where my family still lives, and am harassed and yelled at in the street because men have internalized the idea that women are the ones responsible for their arousal, and that a woman who is not covered is "asking" for it. It is my business that in a place where my mother used to walk about in a miniskirt without being bothered, no women, veiled or not, can walk without being bothered. It is my business when my daughter see families where the woman is dressed head to toe in a tent and the man is in shorts, looking comfy. What should I tell her about this? What message is that sending to other women, to young kids? Deny it all you want, but our clothes send a powerful message to the people around us. The way we dress is a powerful form of self-expression, and the article is arguing that in this instance, it is sending a political message, not just a personal religious one. I agree with the article because it reflects what I have seen and read. You can disagree all you want.[/quote]

I would also add that your clothes make a statement about you.  If a woman walks down the street with a tshirt with a swastika on it, she's communicating something.  If a woman walks down the street wearing a bra and booty shorts, she's trying to communicate something as well.  And when a woman wears a hijab, it's communicating that she subscribes to an ideology that I find inherently backwards and repressive.

And honestly, do you think a woman who is in a niqab could make it as a surgeon?  Do you think she would be able to connect with patients and have them trust her?  Do you think she would be able to perform surgery comfortably in her clothing?  The niqab is an innovation, designed to limit women from connecting with the world around them, and totally successful.  Decades ago, no woman in the Arab world wore them.

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