Alea iacta est

Draw those veils, ladies...

With tedious debate still going on about the whole hijab or not to hijab debate, there was (yet another) article in the dead-tree version of the Daily Telegraph (hence no link) about if you were going to ban hijabs, you'd have to ban bikinis as well.

There was some justification for this view, which I can't recall exactly, but it was very similar to the hoary old argument that the coverings are a great Feminist expression because it stops men looking at you as a sex object.

Well, excuse me for pointing out something, but that sort of thinking demeans both sexes. It damn well isn't the woman's fault that some guy goes, "Ooh! Look, that woman is just a sex object!"; and I also find insulting the idea that men are so incapable of controlling their lust that women better cover up or the man might do something he regrets.

I mean, really, if you want to wear it, fine, but keep the lame "It's an expression of Feminist ideals" argument out of it, K?

Back to the "Bikini/Hijab" dichotomy - this, I find particularly amusing because of this bit from the Koran.

24:31 And tell the believing women to lower their gaze and be modest, and to display of their adornment only that which is apparent, and to draw their veils over their bosoms

"Drawing a veil across your bosoms" sounds closer to a bikini than it does to putting something on your head.

(Heehee....he said "bosoms")

Posted by Quentin George at August 31, 2005 06:05 PM