Friday, 26 June 2009

• I'd like to share with any audience I might have a few words that really inspired me. 'Annonymous' has many legitimate points, the most brilliant of which being: a covered face equals a deprivation of identity. I think this woman/man displays an intelligence far surpassing any "burkha advocate". Her words sum up my emotions with a flowing flawlessness that I find rather poetic in it's sarcasm-enriched integrity.

  "A person without a face is not human. Period. If you can't tell the difference between covering cleavage and covering a face, you have serious issues.  If you think you should not have a face, then you must have disturbingly low self-esteem and think you are less than human too. And why is Xanga's front page dominated by somebody with obvious psychological issues? Islam does NOT require that woman be deprived of their faces, and if it did, you know what? It would be WRONG. Modesty? Perhaps you would be even MORE modest, and men would have LESS basis for finding you hot, if you were chained into a basement where nobody could ever see you. It's the same ridiculous logic that you are using to claim this is "modesty." And of course that's exactly what the Taliban, who also espouse your form of "modesty" did to women. It's the obvious logical path. And you are helping it. I'm sorry, you sicken me.

  Part of your identity. If you have no face, you have no identify. You are nothing but a piece of cloth.

  When men start covering their faces and being cut off from society, then we'll talk. Until then it's nothing but a misogynist practice, enabled by women who feel they are somehow of worth if they let men treat them as non-human. Sad and sick. It's right up there with cultural practices that some sick women also espouse, under which women have acid thrown on them for not cooking well. That some women are sad enough to say it's fine with them doesn't make it fine, and the "it's cultural" argument holds no water.

  Get help. This kind of crap is why Xanga is on the decline. It generates traffic by holding periodic discussions as to whether violating human rights is ok, and whether degrading women is ok. And you sheep line up to say it's just fine with you."
  - Annonymous

  Another quote I'm especially fond of is:

  "I can't believe how willing women are to defend their own oppression, it's sick!"
  - for_ever_mustard@xanga

  So aptly said. I find it remarkably amusing and, sadly, very true. I suppose that's the effect of a successful brainwashing, though. I hope I don't offend anyone by this comparison, but it seems to me so similar to Nazi Germany. Hitler, by some power probably related to Allah, managed to convince his nation that a certain populous did not deserve to live...
  
  

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