Cardboard Box Feminism

Skeptic · 11th January 2006, 04:52 AM

During the recent bruhahaha about wearing the Islamic veil in French schools, some people argued that it is actually an expression of "feminism" and a "choice" to live according to the way Islam asks women to be treated.

Well, in that case...

http://trouserquand.blogspot.com/200...d-freedom.html

Darat · 11th January 2006, 05:05 AM

Originally Posted by Skeptic

During the recent bruhahaha about wearing the Islamic veil in French schools, some people argued that it is actually an expression of "feminism" and a "choice" to live according to the way Islam asks women to be treated.

Well, in that case...

http://trouserquand.blogspot.com/200...d-freedom.html

Well I actually support women (and anyone other adult) living as they want to - if that means wearing a veil, covering their head to worship or wearing a wig who cares? If someone wants to live in a cardboard box all their lives who am I to stop them?

It's a good page to wheel out for when you want to show with humour the utter silliness of all these religious "laws" and customs.

TobiasTheViking · 11th January 2006, 05:11 AM

As long as they want to walk around like that, and aren't forced by someone else(excluding gunderscored), i don't see the problem, however, if their husbands or parents force them, then i see a problem.

Nick Bogaerts · 11th January 2006, 05:45 AM

Originally Posted by Darat

Well I actually support women (and anyone other adult) living as they want to - if that means wearing a veil, covering their head to worship or wearing a wig who cares? If someone wants to live in a cardboard box all their lives who am I to stop them?

And as to schoolgirls, and other children and teenagers?

Darat · 11th January 2006, 05:58 AM

Originally Posted by Nick Bogaerts

And as to schoolgirls, and other children and teenagers?

I have no problem with curtailing the rights of non-adults.

11th January 2006, 04:52 AM	#1
Skeptic Banned Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Behind the chessboard Posts: 18,361	Cardboard Box Feminism During the recent bruhahaha about wearing the Islamic veil in French schools, some people argued that it is actually an expression of "feminism" and a "choice" to live according to the way Islam asks women to be treated. Well, in that case... http://trouserquand.blogspot.com/200...d-freedom.html

11th January 2006, 05:05 AM	#2
Darat Lackey Administrator / JREF Forum Liaison Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: South East, UK Posts: 64,804	Originally Posted by Skeptic During the recent bruhahaha about wearing the Islamic veil in French schools, some people argued that it is actually an expression of "feminism" and a "choice" to live according to the way Islam asks women to be treated. Well, in that case... http://trouserquand.blogspot.com/200...d-freedom.html Well I actually support women (and anyone other adult) living as they want to - if that means wearing a veil, covering their head to worship or wearing a wig who cares? If someone wants to live in a cardboard box all their lives who am I to stop them? It's a good page to wheel out for when you want to show with humour the utter silliness of all these religious "laws" and customs.
	__________________ If it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart? - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918-2008

11th January 2006, 05:11 AM	#3
TobiasTheViking Resident Viking Autist Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: With your mother Posts: 6,923	As long as they want to walk around like that, and aren't forced by someone else(excluding gunderscored), i don't see the problem, however, if their husbands or parents force them, then i see a problem.
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11th January 2006, 05:45 AM	#4
Nick Bogaerts Muse Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Didcot, Oxfordshire Posts: 617	Originally Posted by Darat Well I actually support women (and anyone other adult) living as they want to - if that means wearing a veil, covering their head to worship or wearing a wig who cares? If someone wants to live in a cardboard box all their lives who am I to stop them? And as to schoolgirls, and other children and teenagers?
	__________________ Oh, and when the last law was down, and the devil turned on you, where would you hide, Roper, all the laws being flat? This country is planted thick with laws from coast to coast, man's laws not God's, and if you cut them down—and you're just the man to do it—do you really think that you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I'd give the devil the benefit of the law, for my own safety's sake. —Robert Bolt, A Man For All Seasons

11th January 2006, 05:58 AM	#5
Darat Lackey Administrator / JREF Forum Liaison Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: South East, UK Posts: 64,804	Originally Posted by Nick Bogaerts And as to schoolgirls, and other children and teenagers? I have no problem with curtailing the rights of non-adults.
	__________________ If it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart? - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918-2008