I wrote a comment earlier, but it apparently got eaten, so apologies if you see this twice.
I completely agree about women in combat. The answer to that "problem" is standards. One set of standards that has nothing to do with gender and everything to do with being able to do the job.
Re: burkas, I would be all for letting women wear them iff (and that's a big iff) it was a personal choice, an expression of how they viewed their religious texts/beliefs, kind of like Jewish women who choose to shave their heads.
As a means of subjugating women and attempting to marginalize/erase them from society? Not a fan.
I will say, from personal experience, that wearing a burka is no guarantee that the woman will act submissively to anyone/everyone. I can't tell you the number of times a woman in a burka walked directly into where I was standing in a show of arrogance/power/money. It was kind of a "I have more money than you could ever dream of and I would rather lick something off the bottom of my shoe than even pretend that you're in the same room as me." It wasn't shunning because I don't follow that religion, but more class-based, and completely unexpected.
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Date: 2011-10-04 09:03 pm (UTC)I completely agree about women in combat. The answer to that "problem" is standards. One set of standards that has nothing to do with gender and everything to do with being able to do the job.
Re: burkas, I would be all for letting women wear them iff (and that's a big iff) it was a personal choice, an expression of how they viewed their religious texts/beliefs, kind of like Jewish women who choose to shave their heads.
As a means of subjugating women and attempting to marginalize/erase them from society? Not a fan.
I will say, from personal experience, that wearing a burka is no guarantee that the woman will act submissively to anyone/everyone. I can't tell you the number of times a woman in a burka walked directly into where I was standing in a show of arrogance/power/money. It was kind of a "I have more money than you could ever dream of and I would rather lick something off the bottom of my shoe than even pretend that you're in the same room as me." It wasn't shunning because I don't follow that religion, but more class-based, and completely unexpected.
/$.02