Kangaroo Feathers
Yea, it is written in the Book of Cyril...
1. Many women in Islamic countries wear what they want, too. And plenty of Western women don't.Well two points really:
1 - Some women in the west feel pressure to wear what the magazines say they should wear. (And while fewer, some men in the west do the same.) But many women in the west wear what they darn well want to wear, and for them there is no punishment. But in many Muslim majority countries a woman can be punished for wearing the "wrong" clothes. So it's a weak comparison at best.
2 - Even if it was a strong comparison, aren't you using the "two wrongs make it right" argument?
2.No I'm making the "don't point out the mote in thy brother's eye" argument. I'm not saying either case is particularly wrong OR right, rather that different cultures have different experiences and expectations, and judging one culture's values by the standards of another is invariably counterproductive, and usually involves a fair amount of hypocrisy. Ultimately, if you're that worried about freeing women from arbitrary social constraints, I say that's great, but clean up your own yard first, before condemning the neighbours', you know?