tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7716616407420487026.post4280012382911046349..comments2023-10-08T06:37:26.421-04:00Comments on Little Hunting Creek: American TalibanLittle Hunting Creekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15581836733935812927noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7716616407420487026.post-13718693608282360772010-05-12T04:59:40.183-04:002010-05-12T04:59:40.183-04:00Yes, there's also France, where a girlcan'...Yes, there's also France, where a girlcan't go to school if she wears a headscarf (but low-rise and a thong is OK) and Turkey, where you can't work or study in a school or university or enter a military compound (say to vist your son who is doing national service) if you are wearing a headscarf. <br /><br />What is so powerful about being half-naked, anyway? It has always been a sign of slavery and submission. As my son once said - men don't buy mags off the top shelf to see pictures of women wearing as many clothes as possible. <br /><br />Have you ever seen the head of state open parliament or the senate in his shorts and a bare chest? Generally speaking (and you can check this with any student of semiotics) the more clothes you wear, the greater your social status. Perhaps that's the real reason why men don't feel the need to display their skin to their colleagues. They know it's degrading.<br /><br /><br />But I agree with the principle of freedom to choose. Just I think we should all be able to choose to wear more, as well as less. At the moment it's those women who wear more who are under attack from the militant nudist tendency!<br /><br />AnthropologistAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7716616407420487026.post-18357101876315999852010-05-04T14:16:35.771-04:002010-05-04T14:16:35.771-04:00Hey, we are not that different from Iran.
http://w...Hey, we are not that different from Iran.<br />http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/apr/19/women-blame-earthquakes-iran-cleric<br /><br />I can say with 100% certainty that Iran will be hit with a devastating earthquake. When it happens, we can blame it on the clerics.badmomgoodmomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11569728075698885020noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7716616407420487026.post-55118480162411308622010-05-03T11:06:00.589-04:002010-05-03T11:06:00.589-04:00Remember when John Ashcroft had the statue of Just...Remember when John Ashcroft had the statue of Justice draped? http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/1788845.stm. Supposedly it was done for "aestetic reasons." I agree with your husband, the boobs just don't want competition.the short ladynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7716616407420487026.post-872537887631508662010-05-03T06:59:46.590-04:002010-05-03T06:59:46.590-04:00Being from VA and living in the "old dominion...Being from VA and living in the "old dominion" again, I just love your post. And to think that I had never paid much attention to that symbol on our seal until the "boob" in Richmond pointed it out! <br /><br />I love your comments.Linda Lhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12655695696943452993noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7716616407420487026.post-9768057359630809392010-05-02T19:41:43.529-04:002010-05-02T19:41:43.529-04:00This is interesting because where my husband worke...This is interesting because where my husband worked (for a multi-national cell phone company), the <i>men</i> were routinely told they had to adhere to a strict dresscode. What the code was would change periodically from "business casual" to jeans but no t-shirts, to jeans with t-shirts with no writing and back again. But the point is, men were told that they MUST adhere to whatever policy was in effect or risk being sent home without pay (and this happened). On the other hand, the WOMEN were allowed to wear anything from a business suit to what I can only describe as clothing suitable (and intended for) a late-night club, skin-tight halter tops with significant cleavage showing. At no time EVER was a woman sent home without pay for wearing something that failed to meet the dress code. Ever.<br /><br />The only conclusion The Husband and I could come to was that the company was so afraid of a sexual-harrassment lawsuit (of which that particular branch had had it's fair share in the past) that they preferred to just completely ignore anything any woman was wearing rather than risk being accused of harrassment.<br /><br />I'm not disagreeing with your post at all, but I will say that I think people should have certain standards of what is or isn't appropriate for a particular occaision (a low-cut dress for Prom is a whole different thing than the almost-nipple-baring haltertop that the receptionist at my local physician's was wearing last month). still, I guess I'd rather allow people to make fools of themselves by wearing something a little odd, than tell everyone what they have to wear at any given time.Beangirlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10402852482784879141noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7716616407420487026.post-67957852207636456642010-05-02T16:05:12.020-04:002010-05-02T16:05:12.020-04:00Yes! We still have a long way to go!Yes! We still have a long way to go!sewing spotshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07532791199723063051noreply@blogger.com