[kj] Jaz Straw

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"Such clothing can make women feel empowered as they no longer face 
distracted men who are (even subconsciously) checking out their physical 
features"

  If thats the case : Why do these hijab wearing  women wear eye liner? They 
wear make up to enhance their features .
   You seem to have the impression that women(generally) dont like to feel 
desirable. Then why do women wear make-up and revealing clothes? Many women 
use their sexuality to get what they want and prey on males desires and 
weaknesses.
    Women are not dour prudes , they use their womanly charms to  get males 
to do what they want. And like suckers, we fall for it  every time .




>From: culturevirus <culturevirus at yahoo.com>
>Reply-To: "A list about all things Killing Joke (the 
>band!)"<gathering at misera.net>
>To: ade at the-lab.zetnet.co.uk,"A list about all things Killing Joke (the 
>band!)" <gathering at misera.net>
>Subject: RE: [kj] Jaz Straw
>Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 18:17:07 -0700 (PDT)
>
>coming out of lurkdom again... being a US based person, the politics of 
>Britain are mostly unknown to me, but we have roughly the same set of 
>circumstances in the US. I have yet to hear/read of any of our politicians 
>speaking on the subject in such a level-headed manner as Mr. Straw. Our 
>politicians tend to speak in small words and short sentences so as to 
>discourage deep thought on issues and therefore maintain knee-jerk voting 
>based on political hatred for "the other party".
>
>Ade's comment (echoed by a few others) reflects the way a lot of us 
>Westerners view the hijab: as a way to keep women down or force women to 
>shoulder the burden of policing the male sexual drive. I know part of me 
>feels that way as well. But as Straw pointed out early in his column, many 
>women do choose to wear head coverings of some type. If you ask these women 
>many of them will respond that like school uniforms it keeps them equal 
>with their peers and reduces the distraction of clothing differences and 
>focuses peoples attentions on the wearer and not the clothes. Such clothing 
>can make women feel empowered as they no longer face distracted men who are 
>(even subconciously) checking out their physical features and are forced to 
>deal with the woman as a social equal.
>
>I recently read a book on the history of The Habit (Catholic nun garb) and 
>many nuns feel the same way. Within the communities of these women there is 
>disagreement over whether such attire has an overall positive or negative 
>affect on their place in society. Nearly all agree however, that it sets 
>them apart from other women and puts them in a frame of reference that is 
>unique among their sex.
>
>In a perfect world women will choose to wear such attire for what they feel 
>it does for them as a person and not what their sub-culture expects of 
>them.
>
>I am culturevirus
>
>

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