Catcalling Creeps: Should American Women Wear Burqas?
#spacer{clear:left}#abc #sidebar{margin-top:1.5em}if(zs>0){zSB(3,3)}else{gEI(“spacer”).style.display=’none’;gEI(“sidebar”).style.display=’none’}Apparently, women who live in certain areas constantly have to deal with cat-callling men. It’s so pervasive and intrusive that some women begin to hate the nice weather they had been looking forward to and start to wish that they could bundle up or simply become invisible. It’s difficult to understate just how horrible it is that women in America don’t feel as free as men to openly walk the streets, but I’d like to bring up a different and troublesome perspective I hadn’t seen discussed: doesn’t this remind anyone else of the arguments used by traditionalist Muslims in defense of women wearing burqas? Should American women start wearing buraqs? Samhita writes at Feministing: I love warm weather, but I have to say for some reason it brings out a new kind of creepy that you forget about w
