ShaktiSama -> RE: How to pickout a dominate women in public. (4/23/2008 5:29:50 AM)
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ORIGINAL: Emperor1956 A point of dispute in an otherwise excellent post (and set of posts): You may be projecting your own issues regarding nudity when you assume a woman in a burkha is "cringing". The issues being projected are with Islam, not nudity per se. And the reason I refer to the wearing of a burka as "cringing" is the ideology of rape that is behind the burka, and other "full cover" forms of dress for Islamic women. The reason these women wear the clothes they do is that fundamentally, their society believes that displaying the body is an invitation to violate the body. This is the same ideology that motivates Bull's attitude, by the way--he just states a different facet of the same belief. A lot of patriarchal societies believe that if a woman's body parts are displayed, men are entitled to attack them. (Actually, in truth most of these societies believe men are entitled to rape women in general; women covering themselves up in public forbids STRANGE men to rape them--but they have no rights of resistance or refusal against the men who own them, i.e., their "husbands".) quote:
Also, consider a religion / society so terrified of the power of a woman's sexuality that they cover it up. And don't diss the Muslims...ever wonder why a nun's habit looks that way? [:D] No, I don't need to wonder why a nun's habit looks that way. Nuns are castrated priestesses who represent their culture's loathing and ambivalence toward female sexuality in many respects. They are a means of collaring female spirituality and maintaining female participation in Christian spiritual life--just at a high cost, by allowing them clerical status ONLY in the monastic state, whereas men can fulfill many other more powerful roles. Symbolically, nuns are married "property", just as Moslem women are--in this case, they just happen to be married to a deity who is basically without functioning genitals, at least according to standard Trinitarian doctrine. I have no use for any of these Middle Eastern mystery cults, myself. [:D] Too patriarchal. But people can believe whatever floats their boat, so long as they don't lay their patriarchist horseshit about female sexual "virtue" on women who don't buy into it. P.S. As for "skyclad"...I understand the reference and I've certainly attended the rituals, but I prefer to be naked indoors and in select company, myself. [;)] If it comes to public worship, I generally prefer to be "steel-clad" or at least "leather-clad" and honor the Goddess with a sword in my hand. Takes all kinds to make a world!
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