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Originally Posted by jak2
3. For women, it is a big and welcome change from the "in your face" sexuality of western culture. Women are not required by the Qur'an to veil. They are required to dress modestly and it is *recommended* that they cover their hair. However, most do veil and some go farther with niquab (the face screen) or other traditional clothes. Women dressed like this consider themselves marked as religious women, not easy dates. They don't get hit on. No one gawks at their bodies. They are clearly off limits sexually and many that I personally know say it is liberating not to have to conform to western standards of sexy dress, makeup and spending so much time and money on appearance. You buy a five-dollar hijab, put your hair in a ponytail and cover, wear long skirt and a tunic shirt -you're set.
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I have never, in my 24 years on this planet, met a female
* in any stage of her life who thought that idea covering up her entire body, so that she is no longer at all appealing or approachable to men, was a "welcome change". I also would like to know what type of woman says it's "liberating" to not have to "conform to western standards of dress". That, to me, sounds like more of a bullshit cop-out than anything else. So rather than not conforming by wearing a simple pair of jeans and t-shirt and no make-up (which is still very standard and can still be sexy), they'd rather go completely overboard and out of their way to be completely non-conformist by covering themselves head to toe? If that's the reason for the mode of dress, it seems like the wrong reason to celebrate a religion.
That'd be like me saying that, as a Catholic, I wear the cross around my neck because it's really slimming and sets off my eyes, and it's a welcome change from all the heathen bare-necked people of the world.
*A female who didn't hate all men due to a mindset of militant lesbianism, or a complete whack job (to which no modes of behavior can be assumed as real).